Cokemaking Technology Committee Meeting
6 May 2025 • Music City Center, 103C • Nashville, TN, USA
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- Chair’s Opening Remarks - Scott Pisula <Noon>
- Appoint Minute-taker - TBD
- Antitrust Guidelines – Scott Pisula
- Membership & Attendance Review – Charlie Bender
Current Members – XX
New Members – XX
Attendance - XX
- Review Minutes of Prior Meeting & Approve – Hardie Burgan
- AIST Staff Announcements – Charlie Bender
Main Agenda Items
- Present Joseph Becker Cokemaking Award – Steven McKnight
“Established in 1961 by the Blast Furnace, Coke Oven, and Raw Materials Committee of AIME, through a gift of the Koppers Company to honor Joseph Becker, a pioneer in the design of coke ovens. This award recognizes distinguished achievements in coal carbonization and coal technology. These achievements have improved the design, operation and productivity of coke plants and coal chemical recovery equipment and have led to greater efficiency in the use of coke in ironmaking. The recipient of the award must be over forty (40) years of age.”
Recipients: Marc Shulten, Viktor Stiskala Paper: “Technical Support to Schwelgren Coke Plant Featured by Carbonization Retort”
“This award was established in 1953 as the Journal of Metals Award by the Blast Furnace, Coke Oven and Raw Materials Committee of AIME. The name and award rules were changed in 1960 to the Ironmaking Conference Award. The name and award rules were again changed in 1982 to the Josef S. Kapitan Ironmaking Conference Award, then divided into the Josef S. Kapitan Ironmaking Best Paper Award and the Josef S. Kapitan Cokemaking Best Paper Award in 2005. The award is presented to the authors of a technical paper judged by the committee to be the best submitted for the conference at which it was presented.”
- Review Mission Statement - Committee
“To provide a forum for the exchange of information, experiences, and ideas to help sustain and improve the competitive operation of the cokemaking facility through the safe development and execution of industry best practices in both the maintenance and operations areas of cokemaking and byproducts processing.”
- Nominations for Board of Director Level Awards - Distinguished Member & Fellow, Sendzimir Award, Fairless Award, and Steelmaker of the Year nominations
- Develop Committee Objectives / Activities Upcoming Year
- Microsoft Survey Submitted to Committee March 24, 2025 For Feedback
- Top 3 Weeks: #1, #2, #3 (Survey Results Pending)
- Fall 2025 Tour & Location(s): (Survey Results Pending)
- Tour: Stelco Lake Erie and/or Hamilton Plant, Ontario, Canada
- Meeting: Hamilton or Simcoe, Ontario, Canada
- Technical/Presentation Topic(s) Solicited (Survey Results Pending)
- Environmental Improvements w/Technology
- AI Tech, Automation, Digitization
- Cokemaking Technologies Available
- Coke Quality Benchmarking/Improvements
- Future Meeting Location(s) Solicited (Survey Results Pending)
- Byproduct Coke Facilities / DTE Energy
- Coal Mines / Princeton, WV
- Refractory Supplier
- Glidewell Foundry, Alabama
- Carbon Capture Process In-Service
- Conferences/Webinars
- AIST Women in Steel, Indiana, Sep 22-24
- AIST Leadership, Arizona, Nov 18-20
- Elect New Officers
- Chair – Scott Pisula
- Vice Chair – Hardie Burgan
- Papers Chair – Steven McKnight
- Coke Roundup Co-Chairs - Thiago Mazzeu, Jerry Scott
- Byproduct Roundup Chair – James Hosfield
- Young Professional Chair – Aram Hermiz Jo
- Decarbonization Liaison – Jose Alfaro
- Present Chair Plaques
- Discussion items
- If you have any other discussion items to add to the meeting please let Scott Pisula or Charlie Bender know
- Next Meeting – Fall 2025 Stelco, Ontario, Canada
- Chair Conclusion
- Adjourn <1:30pm>