short courses
 EIT's register at the student price NOW!
The conference will be preceded by a variety of excellent short courses planned by experts in their fields highlighting lecturers with many
years of experience and key knowledge.
All courses will take place on Saturday, October 2 and Sunday, October 3 prior to the 49th Conference of Metallurgists (COM 2010). You are not required to be a conference delegate to
attend the short courses.
For more detailed information, contact:
Peter Lind, Barrick Gold Corporation, Canada
plind@barrick.com
Lead Zinc Processing - Short Course
Main Organizer: Andreas Siegmund, LanMetCon,
Liana
Centomo, Noranda Income Fund, and Rob Stephens, Teck Metals
Ltd.
Duration: Saturday, October 2nd and Sunday,
October 3rd at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver Hotel
Price: $800 (students $400) (includes hard copy
course notes, lunch on Saturday and Sunday, and refreshments
Topics (subject to change):
Saturday, October 2
| TOPIC |
PRESENTED
BY |
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TOPIC |
PRESENTED
BY |
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Opening Remarks
|
Organizers |
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4. Concentrate Leaching (atm and pressure)
|
Mike Collins |
|
1. Lead Smelting
|
Peter Hancock |
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5. Lead Recycling |
Andreas Siegmund |
|
2. ISF
|
Dave Fallas |
|
6. Zinc Recycling |
Norber Piret |
|
3. Roasting
|
Jens Nyberg |
|
END of Day 1 |
|
Sunday, October 3
| TOPIC |
PRESENTED
BY |
|
TOPIC |
PRESENTED
BY |
|
7. Calcine Leaching |
TBD |
|
11. Zinc Electrolysis |
TBD |
|
8. Zinc Purification |
David
Dreisinger |
|
12. Lead Electrolysis |
Alberto
Gonzalez |
| 9. Modern
Lead Smelting |
Rob Stephens |
|
13. Environmental |
Philip Henry |
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10. Lead Refining Pyro |
TBD |
|
END of Day 2 |
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Processing of Iron and Steelmaking Residues
- Short Course
Main Organizer: Norbert Piret, Piret & Stolberg
Partners
Duration: Sunday, October 3rd at the Hyatt Regency
Vancouver Hotel
Price: $400 (students $200) (includes hard copy
course notes, lunch, and refreshments)
Topics (subject to change):
| TOPIC |
PRESENTED
BY |
| Process
Overview |
N.L. Piret
- Piret & Stolberg Partners |
| Treatment
of EAF dust by the Waelz Kiln process |
J. Manthey
- Recylex GmbH |
| Current
state and perspectives of EAF/BOF dust processing in
North America |
L.
Southwick - LM Southwick & Associates |
| Japanese
commercial installations, RK and RHK for BOF dust,
Waelz Kiln for EAF dust |
T. Nakamura
- Tohoku University |
| Paul
Wurth's Primus and Red Iron processes for EAF/BOF
dust |
P. Michaud
- Paul Wurth S.A. |
| ZincOx
rotary hearth process |
J. Dewalens
- ZincOx Belgium SPRL |
| Contop
Flash Smelting processes for EAF dust |
U. Kerney -
Weser-Metall GmbH |
| Submerged
Plasma Arc Furnace for EAF dust |
C. Geenen -
Scanarc ASA |
| Ausmelt TSL
smelting process for EAF dust |
|
| Oxycupola
process for BOF dust |
C. Malek -
Küttner GmbH |
| DK - Blast
Furnace process for BOF dust |
C. Hillmann
- DK Recycling und Roheisen GmbH |
| Ausmelt
Ausiron process for BOF dust |
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Lead Zinc
Treatment of Plant Effluent -
Short Course
 Main Presenter:
V. "Ram" Ramachandran. Ram is a
Consulting Engineer to the Non-Ferrous metallurgical
industry. He previously worked in the R&D department
of ASARCO for about 26 years. Ram holds a Ph.D. in
Extractive Metallurgy from the Colorado School of Mines and
is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of
Arizona. He is also a Qualified Environmental
Professional with specialization in Water Quality.
Duration: Saturday, October 2nd at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver Hotel
Price: $400 (students $200) (includes hard copy
course notes, lunch, and refreshments
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Lead Zinc Sulfuric
Acid -
Short Course
Main Organizer: Tom de Groot, Teck Metals Ltd.
Duration: Sunday, October 3rd at the Hyatt
Regency
Vancouver Hotel
Price: $400 (students $200) includes hard copy
course notes, lunch, and refreshments
Topics (subject to change):
| TOPIC |
PRESENTED
BY |
|
Acid Plant Fundamentals |
Worley Parsons (Doug Louie) |
|
Gas Cleaning for Metallurgical Acid Plants |
Outotec (Collin Bartlett) |
|
Acid Plant Contact Section (Gas-Gas HX, Convertor) |
Aker Solutions (Andrew Berryman) |
|
Acid Plant Strong Acid Section (Towers, Coolers,
HRS) |
MECS (Carlos Iwaskowiec) |
|
Safety and Risk Management for Sulphuric Acid Plants |
FM Global |
|
Acid Plant Materials of Construction and Corrosion
Issues |
Xstrata Process Support (Dan Falcioni) |
|
Maturing Acid Plants & Capacity Creep |
SNC Lavalin (Billy Crilly) |
|
Acid Plant Controls & Instrumentation |
MECS (Carlos Iwaskowiec) |
|
Start up of a new plant |
DuPont (Kirk Bailey) |
|
WSA |
Haldor Topsoe (Sam Chidester) |
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Mineral Processing
Short Course and Tour : Rheology - CANCELLED
Materials Science
Short Course: Fracture Control and Structural Integrity - CANCELLED
Environment
Short Course: Sustainability for Profit - CANCELLED
Management
Short Course: Managing Innovation
Main Organizer: Dan Ashman, Teck and Daniel Brosig,
Hatch
Duration: Sunday, October 3rd at the Hyatt
Regency
Vancouver Hotel
Price: $400 (students $200) includes hard copy
course notes, lunch, and refreshments
| TOPICS |
|
Managing Innovation |
|
Intellectual Property Porfolio |
|
Inventive Skills Improvement |
ABOUT YOUR PRESENTER
Presenter: Zion Bar-El, Ideation International Inc.
Zion Bar-El is CEO, Chairman and Founder of Ideation
International Inc where he performs multiple functions
including those involving Sales and Marketing
Administration. Mr. Bar-El manages pre-sales activities
and negotiates exclusive agreements with potential
clients, both nationally and internationally. He has
been involved in overseeing all Ideation activities
since January of 1996.
The Ideation-TRIZ Methodology is the result of an
analysis of over 3 million worldwide patents and the history
of technological and social evolution, from which
approximately 1000 patterns of invention and more than 500
patterns/lines of technological, market and organizational
evolution have been extracted. This extensive knowledge base
enables users to develop a practically exhaustive set of
possible solution ideas to difficult problems in an
expeditious manner.
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