Yakov Gordon Presents the Howe Memorial Lecture at AISTech 2015
05/04/2015 - The Howe Memorial Lecture was the opening session at AISTech 2015 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Yakov Gordon, technical director, ironmaking for the Iron and Steel Business Unit of Hatch Ltd., presented the 2015 Howe Memorial Lecture, titled "The Role of Engineering Consultancy in the Transformtion of a Technology Idea to a Working Process Plant."
The Howe Memorial Lecture was established in 1923 to honor Henry Marion Howe, who helped turn steelmaking from an art into a science with his gift of observation and deduction. The lecturer is selected in recognition of outstanding individual contributions to the science and practice of iron and steel metallurgy or metallography.
During his presentation, Dr. Gordon described how consulting engineers help companies go through the various stages of implementing new technologies, from research and deveopment, to the laboratory scale, to pilot plants and then to full commercial ramp-up. Through their experience and knowledge, and their understanding of how process parameters can be multiplied or combined, consulting engineers are able to guide steel plants in their decision making Consulting engineers evaluate not only capital and operating costs, but also return on investment timelines. Dr. Gordon presented several case studies dealing with alternative ironmaking processes, including Corex, Finex, MIDREX, HIsmelt and Itmk3, and the role Hatch has played in advising steelmakers relative to these processes.
Dr. Gordon will receive the 2015 Howe Memorial Lecture Award on Tuesday morning, 5 May 2015, at the President's Award Breakfast, which is the annual gathering of AIST members during AISTech. AISTech runs 4-7 May 2015. For more information, visit AISTech.org.
The Howe Memorial Lecture was established in 1923 to honor Henry Marion Howe, who helped turn steelmaking from an art into a science with his gift of observation and deduction. The lecturer is selected in recognition of outstanding individual contributions to the science and practice of iron and steel metallurgy or metallography.
During his presentation, Dr. Gordon described how consulting engineers help companies go through the various stages of implementing new technologies, from research and deveopment, to the laboratory scale, to pilot plants and then to full commercial ramp-up. Through their experience and knowledge, and their understanding of how process parameters can be multiplied or combined, consulting engineers are able to guide steel plants in their decision making Consulting engineers evaluate not only capital and operating costs, but also return on investment timelines. Dr. Gordon presented several case studies dealing with alternative ironmaking processes, including Corex, Finex, MIDREX, HIsmelt and Itmk3, and the role Hatch has played in advising steelmakers relative to these processes.
Dr. Gordon will receive the 2015 Howe Memorial Lecture Award on Tuesday morning, 5 May 2015, at the President's Award Breakfast, which is the annual gathering of AIST members during AISTech. AISTech runs 4-7 May 2015. For more information, visit AISTech.org.
Yakov Gordon is currently the technical director of ironmaking technology in the Iron and Steel Business Unit of Hatch. Prior to immigrating to Canada and joining Hatch in 1996, he was a senior professor in the Metallurgical Furnaces Department at the Ural Federal University in Russia and a leading consultant for the metallurgical and chemical industries. He studied metallurgical engineering at the Ural Federal University, where he obtained his Ph.D. and Doctor of Technical Science degrees. During his engineering, research and consulting career, Gordon developed and implemented several new technologies, including shaft furnaces for iron ore metallization and lime production; optimal design and operating parameters for blast furnaces, cupolas, sintering and pelletizing machines; and a new continuous direct reduced iron steelmaking process called CRISP. He is the author of two monographs, seven textbooks (in Russian), more than 180 technical papers, and 27 international patents.
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