PINAKI MAJUMDAR
Jamshedpur, Oct 4: A two-day national conference on “Circular Economy Conference-Industrial By-Product Utilisation and Value Creation” was organised on October 3 and 4 at the city-based SNTI Auditorium.
The event was organised by Tata Steel, Indian Ceramic Society, Jamshedpur Chapter and CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory.
Focus Areas and topics of discussion
The focus area of the conference was Iron & steel slag usage, fly ash valorisation, red mud utilization, geopolymer technology, refractory waste recycling, critical metal recovery from by-products, and uses of by-products in cement and concrete.
LP Singh, Director General of NCCBM Haryana, Sandip Ghosh Chowdhary, Director of CSIR-NML, Jamshedpur, Dipankar Das Gupta, EIC IBMD Tata Steel and Chairman of CIRCON-2024 , Sanjay Kumar, Chief Scientist, CSIR-NML, Jamshedpur jointly inaugurated the conference.
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Importance of circular economy and emerging technologies
LP Singh delivered the inaugural address on the “Role of Cement/construction industry circular economy framework”.
Sandip Ghosh Chowdhury emphasised the importance of the circular economy approach.
Dipankar Dasgupta motivated participants through his inspirational talk. He also emphasized the need for such Conferences to update knowledge of different by-products generated during iron and steel production and there is a need for emerging technology/ research in these fields.
Atanu Ranajan Pal, CTO Process, Tata Steel, D.K Singh, HoD, Materials Group, Ulhas Parlikar, Former Director, ACC Ltd , Sanchita Jindal, Former Adviser (MoEFCC) and other speakers from different academia and industry emphasized the circularity in each and every by-product generated at plants.
The conference was attended by more than 150 PG Students, research scholars, technocrats, and industry professionals.
