Awards & Recognition

Gary Medal
Kemeny, F.L., American Iron and Steel Institute, 1997, for most significant applied science works of the year, "Implementation of a Ladle Slag Oxygen Activity Sensor to Optimize Ladle Slag Practices at the U.S. Steel Mon Valley Works"

R&D 100 Award, 1997
Kemeny, F.L., R&D Magazine's prestigious R&D 100 Award, 1997, for one of the 100 technologically most significant new products of the year: "Low Dross Plasma Aluminum Melter".

R&D 100 Award, 1995
Kemeny, F.L., R&D Magazine's prestigious R&D 100 Award, 1995, for one of the 100 technologically most significant new products of the year: "Plasma Ladle Refiner".

Innovators with EPRI Technology Award
Kemeny, F.L., Innovators with EPRI Technology Award, 1992, for "DC Plasma Arc Foundry Ladle Refiner Improves Productivity and Product Quality".

Best Paper Award
Kemeny, F.L., Iron and Steel Society of the AIME, Best Paper Award in the Special Arcs Group of the Electric Furnace Conference, 1989, "Electrolysis Effects in D.C. Arc Processes", awarded Dec. 12, 1990.

Best Paper Award
Kemeny, F.L., Steel Founders Society of America, Best Paper Award, Technical and Operating Conference, 1989, "The Use of Plasma Arc Heating for Secondary Refining of Foundry Steels".

Best Paper Award
Kemeny, F.L., Iron and Steel Society of the AIME, Best Paper Award in the Ingot and Continuous Casting Group of the Electric Furnace Conference, 1988, "Plasma Heating for Ladle Treatment Furnaces", awarded Oct 30, 1989.

Jerry Silver Memorial Award
Kemeny, F.L., Iron and Steel Society of the AIME, Jerry Silver Memorial Award, Best Paper at the Society Student Technical Session, Dec.11, 1985, "Absorption and Desorption Behaviour of Nitrogen in Fe-Cr-C-S Melts in a Plasma-Arc Induction Furnance".