Scrap-based production of Steel using Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) with possibility of 100 % scrap charges, offers a Circular Economy based solution to reduce CO2 emissions when compared to the integrated Blast Furnace (BF) + Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF) route (1.81 tCO2/tsteel for BOF vs 0.23tCO2/tsteel for EAF). However, EAF production of sheet steel is currently not a reality due...
On 17 September, Karlskrona Municipality organized the digital conference “Sustainable shared mobility” where the question of how sustainable transport solutions can be a good deal even for smaller cities. Read more about the conference (and see it in its entirety) at https://www.karlskrona.se/mobilitet . Professor Tobias Larsson participated with a lecture; “From fossil to electric; Transformation of infrastructure and vehicles”. Below...
[2011-05-20] From May 17-22 the World Student Environmental Summit took place at BTH in Karlskrona. WSES: “The World Student Environmental Summit (WSES) is a student-run convention on fundamental contemporary sustainability issues. It provides a platform for students all over the world to gather together to ask meaningful questions and create solutions towards alternative futures. Top-class personalities from science, humanities and...
The Division of Functional Product Development recently co-organized a two-day course in Strategic Sustainable Development and two days of workshops on Sustainable Innovation – gathering a total of over 100 participants. The events were held in Manaus, the capital of the state of Amazon, Brazil. As part of an ongoing collaboration between Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) and Universidade Federal...
