Presentation title: Toward Carbon-Neutral Steelmaking, Japanese Challenges

Hiroshi Nogami is a professor at Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University.

He studied Chemical Engineering and graduated from Tohoku University in 1987. He continued research on the mathematical modeling and numerical analysis of pulverized coal combustion and cokemaking and got the degree of Doctor of Engineering in 1992.

He started his academic career at Research Institute of Mineral Dressing and Metallurgy, Tohoku University as a Research Associate in 1992. He worked with Prof. Yagi for 13 years and developed kinetic-based operation simulators of various high-temperature processes, such as blast furnace, ultra-fine powder generation under arc plasma. He also worked with Prof. Guthrie at Department of Mining and Metallurgy, McGill University, Canada from 1997 to 1999. During this period, he developed a method of inverse-heat transfer analysis and applied it to the solidification process in single-belt strip casting. He also contributed to the development of a molten steel feeder for the same process. He was promoted to Associate Professor at Department of Chemical Engineering, Ichinoseki National College of Technology in 2006. Then promoted to Full Professor at Mechanical Science Unit, Muroran Institute of Technology in 2011. Finally, he moved back to Tohoku University in 2013.

His main research topics are the mathematical modeling of various industrial processes based on multiphase thermal fluid engineering and reaction kinetics, and optimization of metallurgical and chemical processes through the operation analysis utilizing developed models from the viewpoints of energy, CO₂, and resource issues.  He has published more than 100 papers in refereed journals.