Please the Ansell Lecture Seminar Series at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Payne Institute Faculty Fellow Dr. John Speer presenting An American Perspective on Green Steel on Thursday, November 7, 2024 in Golden, CO.

The global steel industry is intensely focused on decarbonization and production of green steel. In Shanghai, China in October, the Global Low-Carbon Metallurgy Innovation Forum 2024 was held in conjunction with the 9th Baosteel Biennial Academic Conference, hosted by BaoWu, the world’s largest steel producer. The plenary opening session included presentations related to sustainability by leaders representing worldsteel, JFE Steel (Japan), ArcelorMittal, and Professor Speer, who spoke on the topic Development and Challenges of Green Steel in North America. A modified form of this presentation will be provided in the MME Departmental Seminar, including some background, highlights of private and public efforts in the USA to reduce carbon emissions of the steel industry, and some activities of the Advanced Steel Processing and Products Research Center at Mines to support these objectives.

John Speer is the American Bureau of Shipping Professor of Metallurgy at Colorado School of Mines, and Director of the Advanced Steel Processing and Products Research Center (ASPPRC). He received a B.S. degree from Lehigh University in 1980, and a D.Phil. in Physical Metallurgy from the University of Oxford, UK in 1983, and served in various positions at the Homer Research Laboratories of Bethlehem Steel Corporation until he became a Professor in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at Colorado School of Mines in 1997.  John also served as Mines Associate Vice-President for Research. He is a Fellow of ASM International, an International Fellow of the Chinese Society for Metals, a Distinguished Member of AIST and an elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering. John served as President of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers and is currently an officer of AIST, the Association for Iron and Steel Technology.