On January 9th, 2024, CIVS staff members Tyamo Okosun, Associate Director for Research, and Nicholas Walla, Senior Research Engineer, along with Kevin Kondrat, Improvement Facilitator at Gerdau Monroe, jointly presented “Energy Efficiency and Hydrogen Utilization for Blast Furnace and Reheating Furnace” to over 250 attendees at the AIST Midwest Chapter Dinner held at the Avalon […]
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CIVS-Purdue Continue Developing IVBF Casting Rate Sensor through Onsite Data Collection
On November 28th, 2023, CIVS staff members Tyamo Okosun, Associate Director for Research and Kyle Toth, Senior Research Engineer along with Purdue West Lafayette Professor Jun Chen and Post-Doctoral Researcher Weixiao Shang, completed a site visit to U. S. Steel Gary Works #14 Blast Furnace, hosted by Kosta Leontaras, Process Engineer and Jason Entwistle, Head […]
CIVS Welcomes New and Returning Research Assistants
On January 3rd, 2024, new and returning CIVS research assistants gathered in the Immersive Theater for the Spring 2024 student orientation. CIVS Director Dr. Chenn Zhou and Associate Director for Research Dr. Tyamo Okosun opened the meeting by encouraging students to support each other and grow a community within their project groups. This event fosters […]
Student Success Story: Syed Imran
Syed Imran, a newly graduated CIVS research assistant, will join SMSVC member company Linde Engineering North America as a Mechanical Engineer after successfully defending his thesis and being an integral part of many impactful CIVS research projects. His collaboration with industry leaders allowed him the insight to pursue his career goals competitively. He is looking […]
CFD Methodology Presented at IMECE 2023
On October 30 – November 3, 2023, CIVS Associate Director for Operations for CIVS and Research Associate Professor, Armin Silaen presented “Optimization of Vane-Style Variable Area Flowmeter Calibration Through CFD Analysis” at the 2023 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE) in New Orleans, LA. The main aim of this work was to perform calibration […]
CIVS Researchers Gain Practical Knowledge through Site Visits and Training
During 2023, CIVS faculty, staff, and students had several site visits at the steel plants of our SMSVC member companies to gain practical knowledge of ironmaking and steelmaking processes. They also attended technical meetings and training courses such as the AIST Two-Day Continuous Casting Seminar and Workshop on Electric Arc Furnace Practice and Evolution presented […]
PNW CIVS and Partners Kickoff Event for $10 million DOE grant
PNW CIVS, along with industrial, education, federal, and elected leaders, gathered on Oct. 11 to recognize a significant grant of nearly $10 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office (IEDO) to support the Development and Demonstration of an Industrial Hydrogen-fired Steel Reheating Furnace (H2RF). The event attendees participated in […]
SMSVC Dinner Keynote on Decarbonization of Ironmaking and Steelmaking
Mr. David Forrest, Principal Technical Consultant at Nexight Group, representing the Department of Energy’s Industrial Efficiency & Decarbonization Office (IEDO), delivered a keynote speech at the SMSVC Annual Meeting dinner at PNW on November 8th. In his keynote speech entitled “Decarbonization of Ironmaking and Steelmaking: Opportunities for Industry-Academia-Federal Partnerships in the Decarbonization of Ironmaking and […]
SMSVC Meeting Showcases State-of-the-Art Computational Models
Thank you to over 50 SMSVC industry attendees for a successful Annual Meeting on November 8 and 9, hosted at the CIVS facility at the Purdue University Northwest Hammond campus. During the meeting, CIVS & SMSVC director Dr. Chenn Zhou summarized the 2023 existing accomplishments and highlighted strong academic-industry partnerships in the recent DOE grants […]
CIVS Participates in Rockport Works Family Day
On September 23rd, Cleveland Cliffs hosted Rockport Works Family Day at its facility on the Ohio River near Rockport, Indiana, which included a VR tour of the plant created by CIVS. Through the use of 360-degree Video and Interactive Virtual Reality Tour technology developed by CIVS, family, and friends were able to participate in an […]