QualificationsPh.D., Michigan Technological University, Particulate Processing/Extractive Metallurgy, 1991. Expertise and Research InterestsHave gained expertise by conducting research in the following specific areas: - Coal desulfurization (including co-authoring a book on the subject) - Flue-gas scrubber sludge processing - Foundry sand binders - Fly-ash processing and utilization - Development and testing of binders for ore agglomeration - Agglomeration for copper leaching - CO2 capture and sequestration - Oxidative bacterial leaching of pyrite and copper sulfides - Froth flotation of minerals, including column flotation - Size and density classification using hydrocyclones - Modeling of mineral grinding circuits to improve energy efficiency - Temperature and viscosity effects on mineral grinding circuits Future Research- Reductive bacterial leaching and electrowinning of iron from ore - Accelerated mineral weathering for sequestration of carbon dioxide, and production of synthetic clays and zeolites from rapidly-weathered minerals Industrial RelevanceResearch work is relevant to industries that recover metals and industrial minerals from ores, than process or utilize coal, and that carry out other mineral and particulate processing operations. KeywordsCOS Keywords:Carbon Dioxide, Coal Chemistry, Coal Desulfurization, Coal Processing, Energy Environmental Sciences, Energy Sciences, Global Warming, Materials Processing Engineering, Mining Engineering, Separation Process, Separations Chemistry.Additional Terms:Bacterial Leaching, Extractive Metallurgy, Iron Processing, Reductive Leaching.MembershipsSociety for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration PatentsProduction of Iron using Environmentally-Benign Renewable or Recycled Reducing Agents,
Patent Number: 7632330,
2009,
Institution,
United States of America.
![]() Method for Producing Powder from Polycrystalline Inorganic Material,
Patent Number: 5524836,
1996,
Institution,
United States of America.
![]() Flotation Column With Adjustable Supported Baffles,
Patent Number: 5335785,
1994,
Institution,
United States of America.
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