The Second Symposium on Carbon Ultimate Utilization
Technologies for the Global Environment

CUUTE-2 Website

Date: Tue 12-Fri 15, November, 2024
Venue: Nara Kasugano International Forum Nara, Japan
URL: https://cuute2.com

The major themes of CUUTE-2 will be ultimate carbon utilization and the establishment of carbon-neutral industries and society.
CUUTE-2 intends to gather domestic and international knowledge for the development of new low-carbon technologies and low-carbon
processes. This conference will showcase innovation and technology, provide details of the latest industrial solutions to carbon
utilization issues, and will demonstrate how industries and researchers are meeting the many challenges related to the issues.

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research covers liquid air storage, latent heat storage, chemical heat storage, andthermochemical closed carbon looping. His h-index is over 90 (Google Scholar) A novelclosed-carbon-loop technology will be reported.

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Former Deputy Director-General in charge of International Resources, Energy Strategy,and Industrial Technology Policy of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
Appointed Leader of ISIJ committee of carbon neutral iron & steelmaking . He develops
methods for quantitatively analyzing resource eﬃciency and environmental impact ofbase metal materials, considering their entire life cycle from production to use, recycling,and disposal after use, using objective evaluation indicators, and exploring optimalsolutions for material use. The progress of public and private sector strategies to achievecarbon neutrality in the steel industry, domestically and internationally, and thechallenges faced will be presented.

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Dr. Seiji Nomura is the project leader of the Green Innovation in Steelmaking (GREINS), theGreen Innovation Fund Project of “Hydrogen Utilization in Iron and Steelmaking
Processes” in Japan, and the Head of Process Research Laboratory at Nippon SteelCorporation. He has made remarkable achievements in the ﬁeld of ironmaking,particularly in research related to coal and coke. He is set to report on the progress andfuture prospects of achieving a low-carbon society in the Japanese steel industry.

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Mr. Andy Purvis leads industry association with a strong focus on sustainability at theWorld Steel Association. In his role Mr. Purvis leads world steel programmes relating toEnvironment, Safety, Technology and Industry and Product Sustainability. Mr. Purvis hasworked in and around the steel industry for almost 30 years in roles increasing focused on
environmental performance, sustainability and greenhouse gas abatement technologyand policy. He will mention about relationship between climate change and the global
steel industry based on his wonderful special knowledge.

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Dr. Myung-Gyun Shin is Head of Low Carbon Iron & Steel Making R&D Center of thePOSCO, Republic of Korea. He has great achievement in new process development andcommercialization of FINEX. He will give a lecture on the recent development of HyREX
which is the hydrogen ironmaking technology using ﬂuidized bed reactor.

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As for implementing CCS, Norway is one of the most experienced countries in the world.
Equinor is a leading company of CCS and is investing in the Northern Lights project thatstores CO₂ storage on the Norwegian continental shelf near Bergen as a part of theLongship Project. Mr. Fredric Spiegel, the Technical Director in the Tokyo oﬃce of Equinor,
will introduce the entire picture of this big project and present the latest report on it.

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Prof. Jianliang Zhang is a professor at University of Science and Technology Beijing andhas outstanding achievements in a wide range of ﬁelds including ironmaking,environmental-friendly metallurgy, complex ferroalloys. He also serves as vice-chairmanof the key section of The Chinese Society of Metals. He will talk about current state ofChinese steel industries, world biggest steel producer, and its future prospects forsustainable steel production.