CIVS Director Participates in a Round Table Discussion at ARPA-E ROSIE Annual Meeting

Dr. Chenn Zhou was invited to participate in a round table discussion on Process Design and Development at the DOE ARPAE ROSIE annual meeting in Washington, DC on June 9.

Dr. Zhou made a presentation and answered questions on the use of advanced multiphysics simulation, visualization, and AI as enabling technologies with multiple CIVS project examples. Co-panelists included Brian Pittenger of Jenike & Johanson and Daniel Garcia of Carbon Direct.

The Revolutionizing Ore to Steel to Impact Emissions (ROSIE) program aims to develop new technology pathways to enable increased domestic iron and steel production to support American manufacturing. ROSIE projects will develop technologies that can make primary iron using domestic feedstocks with equal or lower cost than the incumbent processes.

Recent advances in electrolysis, plasma technology, and separations chemistry provide attractive opportunities, as do the availability of waste tailings for processing and the development of new mining and mineral beneficiation technologies. If successful, novel ironmaking technologies meeting ROSIE’s metrics will enable a resurgence of the U.S. iron and steel industry, increasing production to meet the steel needed to construct the future energy and American manufacturing infrastructure. There are a total of 13 ROSIE projects.

PNW CIVS is a team member for the project entitled “High Efficiency, Solid State Microwave-Powered Hydrogen Plasmas for Use in Direct Reduction of Taconite Ore and Ore Concentrates in a Rotary Kiln Furnace” led by Argonne National Lab. Other team members of the project include University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign and ArcelorMittal.

There was a total of 60 attendees in the annual meeting, including Dr. Tyamo Okosun, who is the CIVS Associate Director for Research and the PNW CIVS team leader for this ROSIE project. See meeting details.