Process Intelligence
for Indian Steel
Aevom builds domain-specific process intelligence for the steel value chain — starting with the BOF converter, the highest-impact stage in Indian steelmaking. Built in collaboration with IIT Bhubaneswar. Validated at a government steel plant.
CARBON
At Target
TEMPERATURE
Stable
PHOSPHORUS
Within Spec
ADVISORY
Live
India is already the world's second largest steel producer.
The opportunity now is to make that scale efficient, compliant, and green. India's BF-BOF route accounts for over 55% of domestic production — and the BOF converter is where the largest, most immediate efficiency and decarbonisation gains sit.
The process is dynamic.
The control model isn't.
Every BOF heat has one objective — hit Carbon, Temperature, and Phosphorus at tap, simultaneously. Static control models cannot adapt as each heat evolves. Three persistent problems are the result.
01 · CARBON
Iron Loss in Slag
Over-oxidation pushes recoverable iron into slag — permanently, heat after heat. Static models cannot prevent it because they cannot detect bath chemistry changes as the blow progresses.
02 · TEMPERATURE
Thermal Instability
Heats run hotter than predicted, triggering reblows that waste oxygen, time, and refractory life. Thermal energy releases non-linearly — a fixed schedule cannot track it.
03 · PHOSPHORUS
Phosphorus at Tap
Dephosphorisation needs the right slag chemistry at the right moment. Static flux addition cannot adapt — phosphorus misses specification and forces corrective action.
This isn't a technology gap. It is a structural limitation of how BOF control has been designed for 40 years. Closing it requires domain-specific dynamic intelligence — not generic analytics.
Yukti — real-time advisory, built on the Chaos Dynamic Model.
Developed with IIT Bhubaneswar. Updates every 30 seconds throughout the blow. Advisory only — your operators stay in control, every heat, every shift.
01
Non-intrusive
No DCS changes. No new hardware. Reads existing plant data — no integration, no writeback. Live in 90 days.
02
Advisory operator in control
Recommends lance, oxygen, and flux adjustments every 30 seconds. Operator acts or overrides. Never autonomous.
03
Calibrated for India
Built on Indian plant data. Indian hot metal chemistry, Indian coal and scrap grades. Not a global model retrofitted.
04
Outcome-aligned
Minimal upfront. Success fee on verified savings only. You pay from results — not from a budget line.
IIT-origin science.
Venture-grade execution.
Domain expertise embedded in the product — not borrowed for the pitch.
KNOWLEDGE PARTNER
IIT Bhubaneswar
30+ years of BOF/LD converter metallurgical research. The Chaos Dynamic Model is the product of deep domain expertise in converter steelmaking — thermodynamic, kinetic, and process-specific. IIT Bhubaneswar is the scientific foundation Yukti is built on.
VENTURE PARTNER
NOW Venture Studio
DeepTech venture studio co-founding industrial decarbonisation solutions with India's leading steel and process industry companies. Capital, deployment capability, and venture-building discipline — bringing IIT research to the shop floor at startup speed.
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