Department of Energy Undersecretary Geri Richmond: “That’s why it’s exactly the reason I am excited to be here, beyond the students, it’s also about the contact that you have with the steelmaking industries and the way that you guys are all really prototyping and leading in this area (to reduce energy use and greenhouse emissions), […]

On March 20, 2024, in celebration of Women’s History Month, the College of Engineering & Sciences and the College of Technology hosted a Women in STEM event held in the CIVS Immersive Theater. The event featured a panel discussion with PNW alumna, industry partners, and friends, including long-time CIVS partner Kelly Dallas, who serves as […]

On March 13, 2024, CIVS Director Chenn Zhou was invited to present “Saving Energy Using Simulation and Visualization” at the Energy Reduction Fundamentals in the Steel Industry program in Nashville, TN. The seminar is a joint effort between the AIST Energy & Utilities Technology Committee and individual subject experts in the steel industry. In her […]

On March 4th, 2024 CIVS Associate Directors Armin Silaen and Tyamo Okosun hosted international members of ArcelorMittal’s research and development team to showcase CIVS’s capabilities and the long-time collaboration efforts between CIVS and ArcelorMittal, as well as to explore further collaboration into the global industry. Mark Atkinson, Head of Project Management Global R&D, Senior Director […]

On March 20, 2024, CIVS Director Chenn Zhou and CIVS research students Shiyu Wang and Abhishek Kolakotla were invited to showcase CIVS’ research achievements in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics at the 9th bi-annual ArcelorMittal Global R&D CFD & Thermo-Mechanics Days. This virtual event took place March 18-21, 2024, to share information on cutting-edge […]

CIVS blast furnace research received another AIST Best Paper Award in addition to seven other best papers from AIST and AISI in the past. The newly awarded paper, “Investigating the Use of Shaft-Level Tuyere Injection With Computational Fluid Dynamics,” was presented at AISTech 2023 and selected by the AIST Ironmaking Technology Committee for the 2024 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]