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and carbons, from state-of-the-art laboratories located in Canada, the United States,
and Australia. Since 2011 his research interests have been in optical analysis of
coal and coke, and he has published several papers in peer-reviewed journals and pre-
sented communications in international congresses. He is an intermittently active
member of ASTM D05 since about 1980 and member of International Committee
for Coal and Organic Petrology (ICCP) since 1978.

Dieter Senk is head of the Chair for Iron and Steel Metallurgy at the RWTH Aachen
University. Before shifting to RWTH Aachen in 2001, he worked more than 15 years
with Thyssenkrupp Steel. At the RWTH Aachen University he is doing research in the
fields of raw materials and processes for ironmaking and steelmaking, as well as
continuous casting and ingot pouring for solidification. He is a member, speaker,
and authorized person of rectorate of diverse committees and boards, as well as in
the extended board of management of Steel Institute VDEh He has been honored as

Dr.h.c. from VSB e TU Ostrava and Prof. hon. of USTB, Beijing and AHUT,
Maanshan.

Eli Ringdalen is a senior research scientist at SINTEF. Her main research areas are
production of Si, FeSi, HCFeCr, and Mn alloys. The focus is raw material, environ-
mental and production challenges, and development of new processes. She joined
SINTEF in 2007 after more than 25 years in mining and metallurgical industry. She
completed an MSc within geology at NTH in Norway in 1979 and a PhD within met-
allurgy studying HCFeCr production, at NTNU in 1999. She has worked 10 years at
Rana Gruber, an iron ore mine. For 3 years, she worked at SINTEF Molab responsible
for a study of emissions from a closed down coke plant. From 1995, she worked for
Elkem Rana at their ferrochromium plant while doing her PhD. Effects of raw
materials including coke were among her responsibilities there. She has worked
with metallurgical process within Si for Elkem and within Mn alloys for Vale at their
plants in Norway. To focus more on research she moved to SINTEF. Much of the work
at SINTEF is direct research for the industry, but several of the results have also been
published at conferences and in journals. She is cooperating with NTNU and cosuper-
vises MSc and PhD students.

Fernando Rubiera got his PhD degree in Chemical Engineering in 1991 at the
University of Oviedo in Spain with a dissertation on the reduction of SO 2 emissions
during coal combustion in fluidized beds. Between 1992 and 1995 he was seconded
to British Coal and to the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom to conduct
investigations into the optimization of fine coal cleaning processes. Currently he is a
research professor of the CSIC (Spanish Council of Scientific Research) and director
of the INCAR (National Institute of Coal) in Oviedo. His research activities include the
capture of CO 2 using low-cost regenerable adsorbents produced, mainly, from biomass
precursors, the coutilization of coal and biomass, including cocombustion and cogasi-
fication and the production of H 2 from sorption-enhanced catalytic steam reforming
(and gasification) of biomass residues. He has been principal investigator of European,