Irazustabarrena Ane
Coordinator of European programmes in INASMET-TECNALIA
University degree in Chemistry (Universidad del PaÃs Vasco). Master of Science in Kent University. She works in the technology unit designing and implementing the technological strategy and plans for the different operational units (Energy, Foundry, Automotive, Aerospace and Health). She has been the coordinator of Environmental and clean Technologies foresight studies in OPTI –Observatorio de Prospectiva Tecnológica Industrial- spanish national foresight programme.
She has been working in INASMET since 1995.
Project management coordinator for EDEFU project.
" Energy Efficient Furnaces for Energy Intensive Industries"
Most industrial energy consumptions occur in industries that produce raw materials: non-metallic minerals (cement, ceramic), non ferrous metals, glass chemicals and petrochemicals, iron and steel. Together, these four materials groups consumed 62% of total final industrial energy use in 2004. They constitute the Energy Intensive Industries together with paper and pulp. EDEFU FP7 funded project aims to improve 20% energy efficiency in furnaces in a sustainable melting process for Energy Intensive Industries. New technologies will be researched to construct New Ecological Furnaces.