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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Sridhar Seetharaman\, Professor of Materials Science and En
 gineering and Vice Dean for Research and Innovation at Arizona State Unive
 rsity will give a seminar titled "Pathways for Steel Decarbonization - A C
 omparative Study and A Few Case Studies" to the interested faculty and stu
 dents at Discovery Park.\n\n \n\nAbstract\n\nIt is an exciting\, yet chall
 enging time for steel as environmental legislation\, new energy sources an
 d government support for manufacturing are creating the opportunities to r
 evolutionize the metals sector to produce low carbon\, high value added pr
 oducts. The benefits of a modernized energy – and raw material flexible 
 industry producing high-value products are obvious but can only be enabled
  through a joint commitment from the entire industry sector\, government a
 nd the academic community. Using the case as steel as an example\, we seek
  to explore new technologies to reduce the environmental and financial cos
 t of production. We will investigate innovative blast furnace/melting tech
 nology and downstream processes and disruptive technologies to replace tra
 ditional routes. Success will mean remaining competitive in an era of high
 -energy costs and exploiting alternative and indigenous energy. We also se
 ek to develop effective processing routes for value added steel products a
 nd look for solutions that enable differentiation and flexibility at the l
 atest possible stage of steel manufacturing. This talk will highlight the 
 unique industry-university research environments in which I have worked in
 \, and the broad range of technology readiness levels in which we engaged 
 in. Examples of currently ongoing activities will be given from research e
 ngaged in metal recycling and raw material and energy flexibility.\n\n \n\
 nBiography\n\nSridhar received his undergraduate degree from the Royal Ins
 titute of Technology in Sweden and his PHD from MIT. He spent most of his 
 faculty career at Carnegie Mellon as the POSCO Chair of Steelmaking with a
  joint appointment at NETL (DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory)
 \, followed by a period in UK as the TATA-Royal Academy Chair of Low Carbo
 n Technologies. He then served at DOE as a Senior Advisor at EERE. He is c
 urrently at Arizona State University and holds a Joint Faculty Appointment
  at NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)\, he is an international m
 ember of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and a MERCATOR 
 Fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG). He\, is the PI of EPIXC\, 
 Electrified Processes for Industry Without Carbon\, DOE’s 7th Clean Ener
 gy Manufacturing Innovation Institute.\n\nThroughout his 23-year career\, 
 Sridhar have successfully built strategic partnerships and executed key in
 itiatives across industry\, government\, and the academic community. He ha
 s maintained a consistent focus on the expansion and enrichment of transdi
 sciplinary collaborations by capitalizing on existing research capabilitie
 s\, regional and national strengths\, and matching those to mission-driven
  needs of heavy industry to become more energy efficient and decarbonized.
GEO:33.253134;-97.148579
LOCATION:Discovery Park Building\, E264
SUMMARY:Engineering Seminar: Pathways for Steel Decarbonization - A Compara
 tive Study and A Few Case Studies
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.unt.edu/event/ES_202311101300
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