News Articles

  • November 27, 2024

    CIVS Receives AIST Don Daily Safety Grant on AI-Assisted Accident Investigation

    Congratulations to CIVS Senior Research Engineer Kyle Toth as the principal investigator (PI) for the 2024 AIST Don Daily Safety Grant. The grant was awarded for the project “AI-AAI Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Accident Investigation”. Co-PIs include CIVS Senior Research Scientist John “Jack” Moreland and CIVS Director Chenn Zhou.  The industry mentors for the projects are Nathan Berry and Erik Archer from Cleveland-Cliffs.

  • November 27, 2024

    Five CIVS Graduate Research Assistants Receive PNW Grant Awards

    Congratulations to CIVS Graduate Research Assistants on being selected as recipients of PNW Graduate Research Grant Awards for the 2024-2025 Academic Year, sponsored by Graduate Studies Office at PNW.

  • November 25, 2024

    CIVS Director Presents Joint Keynote at North American Green Steel Summit

    On October 28-29, CIVS Director Chenn Zhou presented a joint keynote at the North American Green Steel Summit in Detroit, MI. Dr. Zhou presented “Accelerating Energy Efficiency and Use of Hydrogen for the Green Transition of Steel Production”. Co-contributor to the presentation is Dr. Joachim von Schéele, Global Director Commercialization at Linde. Linde is a charter member in the Steel Manufacturing Simulation & Visualization Consortium (SMSVC) and also a team member for multiple DOE decarbonization projects led by CIVS.

  • November 25, 2024

    Successful SMSVC Annual Meeting

    Approximately 80+ industry collaborators and CIVS faculty, staff, and students met at CIVS for the SMSVC Annual Meeting on November 6 and 7. The events included 1) technical presentations by CIVS staff and students in 6 topics (safety, ironmaking, EAF, Continuous Casting, Ladle, and Reheating Furnace), 2) A Dinner Keynote, 3) Project Technical Committee meetings, and 4) the SMSVC board meeting. Active discussions were held throughout the two-day event, with excellent feedback on the project progress and outcomes as well as the quality of presentations.

  • November 25, 2024

    MachH2 Chief Integration Officer Delivered SMSVC Dinner Keynote

    Neil Banwart, MachH2 Chief Integration Officer, was the keynote speaker at the SMSVC annual meeting dinner on November 6. His speech was an overview of the Midwest Alliance for Clean Hydrogen (MachH2).

  • November 21, 2024

    CIVS Hosts Students to Showcase Simulation and Steel-Related Research

    CIVS hosted multiple groups of students from area schools with teachers who participated in the 6-week NSF Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program at CIVS this summer.

  • November 18, 2024

    CIVS Senior Research Engineer Presents at Industrial Combustion Symposium

    On September 30-October 3, CIVS Senior Research Engineer Nicholas Walla attended and presented at the AFRC Industrial Combustion Symposium in Calgary, Alberta Canada. Nicholas presented “Large Eddy Simulations of Hydrogen Burner”.

  • November 18, 2024

    Multiple PNW faculty and staff members earn Purdue system recognition for multimillion dollar research grants

    Thirteen PNW faculty and staff members are being recognized by Purdue University’s Office of Research for impactful scholarly initiatives that have earned millions of dollars in external funding.

  • November 13, 2024

    CIVS Director Presents Hydrogen Research at European Coke and Ironmaking Congress

    On October 16-18, CIVS Director Chenn Zhou presented at the 2024 European Coke and Ironmaking Congress (ECIC) in Bardolino, Italy. She presented “On the Influence Hydrogen-Bearing Injected Fuels in the Ironmaking Blast Furnace”. Co-authors of the paper include CIVS Graduate Research Assistant Samuel Nielson, CIVS Associate Director of Research Tyamo Okosun, CIVS Research Scientist Orlando Ugarte, and U.S. Steel collaborators Kosta Leontaras and Jason Entwistle.

  • October 31, 2024

    5 CIVS Projects Presented at MS&T Technical Meeting

    On October 5-9, 5 CIVS research projects were presented at the Materials Science & Technology (MS&T) Technical Meeting and Exhibition in Pittsburgh, PA.