About HiTeMP

Hi-TeMP-4 will feature:

  • Invited keynote and panellists, as described in the program, addressing the themes of:
    • Global and national drivers for industrial decarbonisation
    • Exemplars in high temperature industrial decarbonisation
    • Industrial hubs and their role in lowering costs
    • Energy Infrastructure: overcoming the barriers
    • Finance, Policy and Regulation for Iron and Steel - Synthesis of directions
    • Beneficiation & recovery: upgrading, coproducts and circularity 
    • Electrification of high temp processes (calcination, reduction, Re-heating, etc.)   
    • Iron and Steel: Prospective pathways
    • Alumina & Critical Minerals – Prospective pathways
    • Cement and lime –  Prospective pathways
  • Conference papers, with the option for fast-track publication in a special issue conference proceeding. Successful abstract submissions will entitle delegates to present a poster at the forum of a paper, which will be peer-reviewed and published. 
  • Industrial Exhibition, to be introduced for the first time in HiTeMP, along with other sponsorship opportunities.

Zero carbon high temperature minerals processing.

The High Temperature Minerals Processing (HiTeMP) Forum has become a go-to forum for industry, researchers and government agencies at the forefront of implementing the transition to net-zero CO2 emissions for high temperature industrial processes used to produce materials such iron, steel, cement and aluminium.

The HiTeMP Forum is technology neutral. It recognises that electrification, hydrogen, alternative fuels, net-zero heat and carbon-capture storage/reuse are all likely to have a role to play. It also recognises that the low-carbon transition will significantly impact on global supply chains, generating new opportunities for those nations with a coincidence of net-zero energy and mineral resources.

With a growing number of high temperature manufacturing companies across the world already committed to decarbonise, new markets are opening both for the emerging certified low-carbon products and for the new technologies needed to manufacture them.

The HiTeMP Forum engages all of the key stakeholder groups from around the world to share the latest developments and develop synthesised perspectives of emerging drivers, technologies, barriers and enablers to further decarbonise energy-intensive, high temperature process industries.

HiTeMP-4 is proudly brought to you jointly by the University of Adelaide’s Centre for Energy Technology, the Heavy Industry Low-carbon Transition (HILT) CRC, and Mission Innovation's Net Zero Industry (NZI) mission. Learn more about our co-partners.

Overall Aims for HiTeMP-4

The overall aims for Hi-TeMP-4 have been updated to be as follows:

  1. To identify leading exemplars and opportunities in the path toward net zero-carbon production for high temperature industrial processes, notably cement/lime, iron/steel and alumina/aluminium and non-ferrous metal industries;
  2. To identify state of the art and emerging opportunities to implement circular economy principals for the heavy industrial sector;
  3. To identify new opportunities to accelerate the establishment of infrastructure in net-zero energy and fuels for the industrial sector;
  4. To identify best practice in the establishment of industrial hubs that lower the cost of the net-zero transition for industry;
  5. To identify opportunities through collaboration and international partnerships, knowledge-sharing, industrial/innovation ecosystems, new business, markets and financial models, together with policy and regulatory frameworks to accelerate the pathway to net zero for industry;
  6. To identify next steps for the sector, including key enablers, projects and demonstrations that are needed to de-risk future investments in the path toward net zero-carbon production.

Past forums

See information about previous forums, including video recordings and outlook reports.

HiTeMP-3 (2022)

HiTeMP-1 (2018)

HiTeMP-2 (2020)