On May 5-7, 17 CIVS staff and students delivered various technical presentations at the AISTech 2025 Conference in Nashville, TN, which is the major Annual International Iron & Steel Technology Conference and Exposition. The CIVS presentations included 13 technical presentations, 3 undergraduate oral presentations, and 14 graduate poster presentations in the topics of blast furnace, DRI, electric arc furnace, ladle, reheating furnace, casting and safety.
CIVS staff and students received various award: 1) Dr. Ty Okosun, CIVS Associate Director for Research, received the AIST J.E. Johnson Jr. Award; 2) CIVS Blast Furnace research received the 2025 AIST Josef S. Kapitan Award – Ironmaking for the paper titled “The Integrated Virtual Blast Furnace: Enabling Physics-Based Operational Guidance.”; 3) CIVS Graduate Research Assistant Hossein Alimohammadi received 3rd place at the AISTech Graduate Poster Competition. His poster was titled “Enabling Blast Furnace Coke Replacement with Superheated Hydrogen Tuyere Injection”. The contest provides students the opportunity to present their research in a forum for all conference attendees to view; and 4) CIVS was selected as a recipient of an AISTech Material Advantage Chapter Travel Grant.
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