On September 17, CIVS Senior Research Engineer Nick Walla presented “CFD Modeling of Burner Retrofits for Hydrogen Fuel and Oxygen Enrichment in a Reheating Furnace” at the AFRC Industrial Combustion Symposium in San Antonio, TX. Co-authors include CIVS Graduate Research Assistants Veronica Pitt-Payne and Sohail Hannure, CIVS Director for Operations Armin Silaen, Industry Collaborator from […]

Congratulations to 7 CIVS Graduate Research Assistants on being selected as recipients of PNW Graduate Research Grant Awards for the 2025-2026 Academic Year, sponsored by Graduate Studies Office at PNW. The students and their projects are listed below: Abdul Mateen Mohammed (Mechanical Engineering): “Computational Study of Iron Ore Fines Reduction with Microwave-Generated Hydrogen Plasma” Jay […]

On September 2 and 4, CIVS EAF and casting research was presented at the SteelSim International Conference in Třinec, Czech Republic. On September 2, CIVS Research Scientist Orlando Ugarte delivered a plenary talk “Integrated CFD Models for Optimizing Scrap Melting in DC EAF”. The paper is co-authored by CIVS Ph.D. student Shiyu Wang, CIVS Associate […]

CIVS staff and students enjoyed welcoming back the Purdue University Northwest community for the fall semester at the PNW Faculty & Staff Resource Fair and Westville and Hammond Welcome Rallies. CIVS offered demonstrations of projects as well as informing students and staff about CIVS’s work. PNW hosts these events each year to kick-off the new […]

On June 18, CIVS Graduate Research Assistant Monika Singhal presented “Architecture for Developing an Image Recognition Model Workflow for Workplace Safety Application” at the TMS Specialty Congress in Anaheim, CA. The paper is co-authored by CIVS Senior Research Engineer Kyle Toth, CIVS Graduate Research Assistant Monika Singhal, CIVS Director Chenn Zhou, Steel Dynamics’ Chase Ault, […]

On June 12, EAF research was presented at the EASES (European Academic Symposium on EAF Steelmaking) 2025 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Hamzah Alshawarghi from Linde presented “An Integrated CFD Modeling Approach Towards an Entire EAF Operation Process”. The presentation is co-authored by CIVS Director Chenn Zhou, CIVS Research Scientist Orlando Ugarte, CIVS Associate Director for Research […]

On August 7, CIVS staff had a productive visit to Finkl Steel in Chicago. CIVS presented research and projects in areas of safety, EAF, ladle, casting, and reheating furnace. The group also had comprehensive tour to the plant, followed by energetic and engaging discussions with their managers and engineers, including possible collaborative projects. The visit […]

Congratulations to CIVS graduate, undergraduate, and senior design students on receiving the following awards and grants: Senior Design Award: 1st place poster competition: Luke Aune, Elizabeth Cortes, Lukas Dallas, “Design of Hydraulic Nozzle Spray Cooling in a Steel Continuous Caster” Project Advisor: Senior Design Grants: Priscilla Ndukaife, Yao Huang “Design of Diluted Combustion for Greenhouse […]

CIVS Senior Research Engineer Kyle Toth traveled with senior design and other CIVS student workers to U.S. Steel Gary Works to observe BOF process operations to learn what should be targeted for activities for training as part of the senior design work being performed. The project will be completed this fall and presented to the […]

U.S. Steel Gary Works invited CIVS to their Family Day on August 16 to demonstrate the steel consortium’s latest developments. Rohit Kovvuri (CIVS Research Engineer) and Mario Herrera-Ortega (CIVS Post-Doc Research Associate) showcased the crane simulator. U.S. Steel family members learned about crane controls and got to operate a virtual overhead crane. The event was […]