On March 1st, 2024, Joe Morey, Senior Technical Consultant at Morey Industrial Consulting, presented “A Possible Future for Blast Furnace Ironmaking” to CIVS research students, staff, and faculty in the Immersive Theater during the Friday student seminars held every semester. “Mr. Morey’s presentation was quite an informative session for students like me who are from […]
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Hydrogen Utilization in the Reheat Furnace Presented at AIST Detroit Chapter Dinner
On February 13th, 2024, a new DOE-funded CIVS project, “Hydrogen Utilization in the Reheat Furnace,” was presented by Kevin Kondrat, Improvement Facilitator for Gerdau Special Steel, joined by CIVS Senior Research Engineer Nick Walla, at the AIST Detroit Chapter monthly dinner meeting. The presentation highlighted the Development and Demonstration of an Industrial Hydrogen-fired Steel Reheating […]
CIVS Associate Director Presents Steel Industry Overview at C-STEEL
On February 13, 2024, CIVS Associate Director for Operations Armin Silaen presented “Steel Industry Overview” at Argonne National Labs as part of the Center for Steel Electrification by Electrosynthesis (C-STEEL)’s first Full Program Meeting. C-STEEL is a multi-institutional effort, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science for $19 million […]
NLMK USA Visits CIVS to Develop Custom-Designed Smart Ladle
On February 9th, 2024, representatives from NLMK USA’s automation team visited CIVS to learn the methods used to develop and deploy the SMSVC Smart Ladle. CIVS Senior Research Engineer Nick Walla hosted the NLMK Machine Learning team that included: Dan Whelan, Melt Shop Process Engineer Ian Pearson, Production Automation Engineer Josh Heaton, Production Automation Engineer […]
Federal officials tout recent multimillion dollar research grants for CIVS during tour
Commendatory remarks, smiles, and even a few enthusiastic “high-fives” were shared on Feb. 16 as representatives from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the office of U.S. Representative Frank Mrvan visited Purdue University Northwest’s (PNW) Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS) to observe research and impacts for federally-funded steel decarbonization initiatives. In […]
CIVS EAF Research Team Gains Invaluable Training through AIST
On February 5, 2024, through February 9, 2024, CIVS researchers Orlando Ugarte, Sathvika Kottapalli, and Shiyu Wang attended Modern Electric Furnace Steelmaking – A Practical Training in Louisville, KY. This seminar covered the basics of electrical and mechanical features of electric arc furnaces (EAF), including the role of refractories and raw materials. Multiple experts presented fundamental […]
CIVS Researchers Present Industry Innovations in Safety and Hydrogen
On February 1, 2024, CIVS research staff presented an overview of digital technologies for safety training and workforce development at the 2024 Winter Conference organized by the Eastern States Blast Furnace and Coke Oven Association in Pittsburgh, PA. As the first of two conference keynote presentations, Senior Research Scientist John “Jack” Moreland presented “Innovative Safety […]
NLMK-Indiana Representative Presents EAF Processes at CIVS Seminar
On January 5th, 2024, Steve Ryan, Manager of Process Technology at NLMK-Indiana, presented “EAF Practice and Evolution – Where We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We Are Going.” to CIVS research students, staff, and faculty in the Immersive Theater during the Friday student seminars held every semester. In his presentation, Steve gave an […]
CIVS Students Compete in AIST Real Steel Video Competition
Public voting for the AIST Real Steel Video Competition is open for February! Find out how robots and autonomous vehicles are transforming the steel industry from CIVS Research Assistant Sai Laya Mallineni, and give it a thumbs up on YouTube if you like it! Take a moment to learn about the future of […]
Gerdau-Purdue Digitalization and Decarbonization Partnership Presented to Industry 4.0
On November 16th, CIVS Director Chenn Zhou and CIVS Associate Director for Operations Armin Silean were invited to present the Gerdau-PNW CIVS Partnership at the Gerdau’s virtual seminar on “the 4.0 Best Projects GAB/GSB/GLN/GSN”. The presentation highlighted the recent $10 million grant, supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office (IEDO), […]