Comminution '14
Vineyard Hotel, Cape Town, South Africa
April 7-10, 2014
www.min-eng.com/comminution14/
The 9th International Comminution Symposium (Comminution '14) is organised by MEI in consultation with Prof Malcolm Powell and Dr. Aubrey Mainza and is sponsored by TOMS, Starkey & Associates, King's Ceramics & Chemicals, Keramos, Polysius, FLSmidth, Magotteaux, CHEMCO Advance Material, Grintec Advanced Materials Technology, Industrie Bitossi, Eirich, Metso, Cenotec, Russell Mineral Equipment, Grinding Solutions, Outotec, CITIC Heavy Industries, DMM, First Quantum Minerals and SELFRAG. Media sponsors are International Mining, Industrial Minerals and AT International.
THEMES
MEI’s Comminution conferences are established as the main events for profiling cutting edge research and innovation in all aspects of crushing, grinding and ultrafine grinding in the minerals industry. We strongly encourage industrially based research papers showing the benefits of basing practical application on scientific rigour, such as the industrial validation of models and control techniques.
KEYNOTE LECTURES
Prof. Tim Napier-Munn, of the JKMRC/JKTech and founding CEEC director, will present the first keynote lecture "Is progress in energy-efficient comminution doomed?".
Tim is a mineral engineer with degrees from Imperial College, London, and Wits University, Johannesburg. He has spent his 40-year career in applied R&D for the mineral industry, working for De Beers in South Africa and for universities in England and Australia. He joined the JKMRC in 1985, becoming its Director in 1997 and inaugural MD of JKTech Pty Ltd in 2001. He retired from these two roles in 2004 and now works part-time for the JKMRC and consults through JKTech. He has given his professional development course on Statistics for Mineral Engineers over 130 times around the world and is writing a book on the subject.
Tim’s research and consulting interests are in the modelling and simulation of mineral processes, physical processing such as dense medium separation and hydrocyclones, diamond processing, statistical methods applied to mineral processing, technology transfer and research management. He has published over 130 papers and articles, and was the editor of the JKMRC ‘Blue Book’ on comminution (1996) and the 7th Edition of Wills’ Mineral Processing Technology (2006). He is a Fellow of the AusIMM, and a recipient of the Futer Medal of the UK Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (2009) and the AusIMM President’s Award (2011).
Alan Muir, Vice President Metallurgy at AngloGold Ashanti, South Africa, will present the second keynote lecture "The next stage of evolution in comminution".
Alan grew up in Scotland where he studied metallurgy (Strathclyde) and graduated in 1981. He then joined Anglo American Gold and Uranium division and has remained in service, through various changes in the company which eventually became AngloGold Ashanti, since then. He worked at many operations in the Welkom and Carltonville areas and was the General Manager at Ergo, during the AngloGold Ashanti closure phase. He was also seconded to the Rand Refinery as Managing Director for a period prior to taking up the position of Vice President Metallurgy which he currently holds.
As the Vice President Metallurgy, he has global responsibilities which include major project reviews, due diligence evaluations and directing the work in the Corporate Metallurgy department which involves process optimization support, setting of company standards and management of research and development activities.
Dr Wolfgang Peukert, Director of The Institute of Particle Technology at the University of Erlangen, Germany, will present the 3rd keynote lecture "A multiscale view on comminution".
Dr. Peukert is a chemical engineer with degrees from the Uuniversity of Karlsruhe, Germany. He has 7 years of industrial experience with Hosokawa both in Japan and Germany. After holding a chair for 5 years at the Technical University of Munich, he is now Director of The Institute of Particle Technology at the University of Erlangen. He is coordinator of the Erlangen Cluster of Excellence on “Engineering of Advanced Materials”, a highly interdisciplinary project with 200 researchers from 9 disciplines. Wolfgang’s research interests cover many aspects of particle technology including comminution and classification in dry and liquid phase. He has published more than 200 papers in refereed international journals and is an invited plenary and keynote speaker at many internal conferences.
As the Vice President Metallurgy, he has global responsibilities which include major project reviews, due diligence evaluations and directing the work in the Corporate Metallurgy department which involves process optimization support, setting of company standards and management of research and development activities.
Contact:
Dr Barry Wills
Tel: +44 (0)7768 234 121