This project aims at improving the valorisation of slags from electric steelmaking process route through improved slags conditioning and exploration of new recycling paths, to facilitate the implementation of a real “industrial symbiosis”. 

These targets are achieved by a novel intelligent system integrating innovative measurement devices for characterization of liquid and solid slags, with modelling and simulation tools to assess the EAF and LF slags’ compositions and amounts. 

Different systems will be exploited on industrial sites to identify the most suitable recycling paths: on-site physical based (LIBS and deterministic model), on-line based on electrical impedance sensor and analytical/data-driven approaches (heuristic, AI-based and hybrid). 

All such systems will provide information on slags features which will be exploited by decision support systems providing an aid to the operators and plant managers for the optimal valorisation of slags inside and outside the steelmaking cycle.