The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science recently announced $19 million in funding over four years for DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory to lead the multi-institutional Center for Steel Electrification by Electrosynthesis (C-STEEL). The center aims to develop an innovative and low-cost process for alternative steelmaking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 85%. The […]

PNW CIVS is a sub-recipient of a new DOE grant on a project entitled “Scaling Hydrogen-Direct Reduced Iron Pathways to Decarbonize Iron and Steelmaking.” The project is led by the Center for Iron and Steelmaking Research (CISR) at Carnegie Mellon with industrial partners from Nucor Steel Corporation and United States Steel Corporation, with the objective […]

On July 27th, CIVS hosted local and national representatives from U. S. Steel for project overviews, progress presentations, and a facility showcase. The visit also included open trials of the customizable crane training simulator, just one day before the project team’s progress demonstration with crane operators and training personnel from U. S. Steel Gary Works. […]

On October 5, faculty members from PNW held a student-centered civics event in the CIVS Immersive Theater. “Literature and Politics: When Nobel Prize Winners Speak” was a collaborative effort between Professor Jin Lu’s French students & Professor Yu Ouyang’s political science students. The event took place on the same day that the 2023 Nobel Prize […]

On October 10, more than 25 CIVS undergraduate and graduate research students, faculty mentors, and professors attended the AIST Midwest Member Chapter Dinner at the Avalon Manor in Merrillville. During the event, words of praise and acknowledgment were given to CIVS students in attendance, who were called to stand up by the speaker and given […]

Purdue University Northwest (PNW) is a major partner from Indiana in an alliance awarded up to $1 billion in funding to develop a regional clean hydrogen production and distribution hub in the Midwest, as announced by President Biden on Oct. 13. PNW, through its Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS), will be integrally […]

Purdue University Northwest’s (PNW) Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS) along with industrial, education, federal, and elected leaders gathered 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 to support decarbonization research, development, and demonstration in the steel industry. […]

Congratulations to recent Purdue Northwest MSME graduate and CIVS research assistant Neel Busa for joining SMSVC member company ArcelorMittal as an Electric Arc Furnace Engineer. The post Student Success Story: Neel Busa appeared first on Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS).

On September 26, around 20 AIST Ironmaking Technology Committee members held their meeting at CIVS, facilitated by Committee Chair Joe Morey of US Steel and AIST manager Anne Voss. During the meeting, several technical presentations included: “Impacts and Dynamics of Shaft-Level Tuyere Injection with Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling” presented by CIVS PhD student Sam Nielson; […]

On September 22, CIVS staff and students were invited by Gerdau’s Kevin Kondrat to tour the reheating furnace at the Gerdau Special Steel facility in Monroe, Michigan. The group included Misbah Syed and Abhishek Kolakotla, graduate students from the simulation lab at CIVS who work directly on SMSVC projects related to reheat furnace operations, and […]