News Articles
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April 3, 2024
CIVS Hosts International Visitors from ArcelorMittal
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.
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April 2, 2024
CIVS Research Presented at ArcelorMittal Global CFD Days
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.
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April 1, 2024
8th Best Paper Award for CIVS Research of Blast Furnace Models
CIVS blast furnace research received another AIST Best Paper Award in addition to seven other best papers from AIST and AISI in the past.
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March 14, 2024
Steel Industry Expert Presents Future of Blast Furnace Ironmaking
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.
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February 28, 2024
Hydrogen Utilization in the Reheat Furnace Presented at AIST Detroit Chapter Dinner
On February 13, 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.
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February 27, 2024
CIVS Associate Director Presents Steel Industry Overview at C-STEEL
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.
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February 26, 2024
NLMK USA Visits CIVS to Develop Custom-Designed Smart Ladle
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.
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February 21, 2024
Federal officials tout recent multimillion dollar research grants for CIVS during tour
In celebration of several recent multimillion dollar research grants from the U.S. DOE, Geri Richmond, DOE Under Secretary for Science and Innovation, and Rep. Mrvan toured the CIVS space and listened to brief presentations emphasizing the far-reaching impacts CIVS projects serve for industrial innovation, decarbonization, digital transformation, workforce development and community and industry relations.
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February 20, 2024
CIVS EAF Research Team Gains Invaluable Training through AIST
On February 5, 2024, through February 9, 2024, CIVS researchers Orlando Ugarte, Sathvika Kottapalli, and Shiyu Wang attended Modern Electric Furnace Steelmaking - A Practical Training in Louisville, KY.
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February 13, 2024
CIVS Researchers Present Industry Innovations in Safety and Hydrogen
On February 1, 2024, CIVS research staff presented an overview of digital technologies for safety training and workforce development at the 2024 Winter Conference organized by the Eastern States Blast Furnace and Coke Oven Association in Pittsburgh, PA.
