News Articles

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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 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.

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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 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 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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  June 23, 2021

  NSF RET Teachers Visit Cleveland-Cliffs Steelmaking Plant

  On June 16th and June 23rd, participants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program and their mentors from PNW visited Burns Harbor, which is a fully integrated steelmaking plant of CLEVELAND-CLIFFS Inc. Burns Harbor is located on Lake Michigan in northwest Indiana, 50 miles southeast of Chicago.

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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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  January 11, 2024

  CIVS-Purdue Continue Developing IVBF Casting Rate Sensor through Onsite Data Collection

  On November 28th, 2023, CIVS staff members completed a site visit to U. S. Steel Gary Works #14 Blast Furnace.

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  January 8, 2024

  CIVS Welcomes New and Returning Research Assistants

  On January 3rd, 2024, new and returning CIVS research assistants gathered in the Immersive Theater for the Spring 2024 student orientation.

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  January 3, 2024

  Student Success Story: Syed Imran

  Syed Imran, a newly graduated CIVS research assistant, will join SMSVC member company Linde Engineering North America as a Mechanical Engineer after successfully defending his thesis and being an integral part of many impactful CIVS research projects.