2025 ECerS - FIRE Summer School - Topics

This 2025 edition of the ECerS-FIRE School will be a unique opportunity for the attendees (mostly PhD students, but also professionals) to learn more about (or discover!) refractories through 3 main aspects: fundamental approaches, industrial needs and new approaches on innovations.

The topics that will be presented/developped  during the 2 days of lectures are:

• Raw materials: Sustainability, recycling and LCA
• Shaped refractories, formulation and processes
• Monolithic refractories, formulation and processes
• Thermodynamic and kinetics
• Fluid and gas reactive transportation (H2 reduction and combustion)
• Multi-scale material examination
• Ultra High Temperature Ceramics
• Coupling of material properties
• Testing vs. Modeling
• Additive Manufacturing and individual processing
• Upscaling of sensors, instrumentation and material needs: From lab scale to smart industrial concepts and installations
• Data mining and AI as a tool for industrial refractory-ceramic processes
• Refractories and HT materials in a changing industrial environment
• Improvement of product quality
• CO2 management