Process Control Applications in Mining and Metallurgical Plants

Chair(s): Helen Shang - School of Engineering, Laurentian University, Canada, Lionel Ryan - Xstrata Process Support, Canada and Sharon Kennedy - Barrick Gold Corporation, Canada

Symposium Description

This symposium focuses on how techniques such as Process Control, Simulation, or Modeling can be used to design, operate and optimize mining and metallurgical plants. Process control techniques are increasingly becoming an integral part of our industry, and the benefits are evident: increased productivity, increased efficiency and lower operating costs. Come learn about the latest advances in this area.

Topics of Interest

- Mathematical modeling used to design mining or metallurgical plants.
- Process simulation.
- Process control applications used to optimize mining and metallurgical circuits.
- Process automation and robotics, hard and soft sensors.
- System identification.
- Computerized material balancing.
- Fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control.
- Data mining, virtual reality, expert systems, neural networks, etc.
- Geometallurgical modeling.
- Theory and applications of advanced control strategies.


Short Course

One and two-day short courses focusing on recent key technological developments and current industrial trends will be offered on the days immediately preceding the conference. The subjects and names of the lecturers will be announced on the conference web page.

Technical Tours

The participants will have the opportunity of visiting some of the world’s most important metallurgical processing operations after the conference. Details on these plant tours will be provided on the conference web page.



Proceedings

The Proceedings of the Process Control Applications in Mining and Metallurgical Plants Symposium will be published in book and CD form and will be available at the meeting. Both the symposium and its proceedings will be in English. All papers will be refereed and edited prior to final acceptance and publication.

Submissions

Abstracts should include:

- The Title of the paper.
- Abstract with less than 100 words.
- Author(s) name(s), affiliation(s), complete addresses, email addresses and telephone number(s).

Deadlines

- Abstracts December 31, 2008.
- Author notification of acceptance January 15 to February 15, 2009.
- Full length manuscript April 30, 2009.

For more information on abstract submission or conference details please contact one of the conference organizers listed below. For further information, contact:


Helen Shang
Laurentian University – School of Engineering
hshang@laurentian.ca

Lionel Ryan
Xstrata Process Support
lryan@xstrataprocesssupport.ca

Sharon Kennedy
Barrick Gold Corporation
skennedy@barrick.com

       To submit an abstract go to: http://www.cim.org/com2009/login.cfm