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Steel Industry Expert Presents Future of Blast Furnace Ironmaking

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 […]

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 […]

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), […]