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 Manor in Merrillville.

AIST Midwest Chapter Chair Michael Schwentor opened the evening’s presentation by acknowledging the over 30 Purdue Northwest students representing various project teams at CIVS and encouraging them to apply to the AIST Midwest Member Chapter’s Scholarship Program.

The keynote presentation highlighted two recently awarded DOE-funded projects:

“Integrated Virtual Blast Furnace for Real-time Energy Efficiency Improvement,” presented by Tyamo Okosun, is supported by a $7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and has made significant progress since its launch in September 2021. CIVS successfully completed the project’s first phase in March 2023 and entered phase two. The presentation emphasized the efficiency and effectiveness of integrating digital technologies and helped introduce the next project, which will adopt a similar process and application roadmap.

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