Progress Update on the MaRSCH Project! 🚀 Thanks to the collaboration with INEMET (Institute of Nonferrous Metallurgy and High-Purity Materials) and IEST of TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Andreas Heutz, co-founder of mecorad, is actively involved in our MaRSCH project. Since Autumn 2022, we've been researching metallurgical slag properties using advanced radar technology. Our radar systems, capable of withstanding extreme heat above the furnace, deliver reliable and accurate results. We are making significant progress in our research and expect to gather valuable findings for innovation and research in metallurgy. This project aims to understand slags' behavior better, enhancing efficiency and sustainability in metallurgical practices. Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research under the "KMU innovativ" program, it is set to pave the way for further automation and thus save CO2 emissions. A big thank you to our dedicated partners: Paul Schönherr from INEMET for conducting the latest test series, INEMET (Institute of Nonferrous Metallurgy and High-Purity Materials), and The Institute of Iron and Steel Technology https://lnkd.in/dF3vqNND #Mecorad #MaRSCHProject #RadarTechnology #MetallurgicalResearch #Innovation #SteelIndustry #Collaboration #TUFreiberg #INEMET #IEST #KMUinnovativ
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Thank you very much! And many thanks to you Andreas Heutz from mecorad GmbH for the valuable discussions during our very insightful and succesfull series of experiments. This sensor will be a real "game changer" in some pyrometallurgical processes and I am verry happy to be a part of this verry interesting development procedure.