As a part of the hub activity, a half-day seminar was organised by the hub students at the Novotel Newcastle on 21^st August 2018. The aim of the seminar was to provide an insight about the ongoing research in the different areas of the hub. The seminar was organised with Iron Ore as a theme for the presentations that covered the topics in the following areas:

• Beneficiation
• Material Handling
• End-use functionality

There were 9 presentations in total, given by the students and the research associates working in different streams. This was attended by around 20 delegates from the university including the Hub director, Chief investigators and Hub Manager.            

James Carpenter – PhD Student

Separation of Ultrafine Particles Using the REFLUXTM Graviton

           

Deepak Kumar – PhD Student Dry

Separation of Minerals Using a Fluidised Sink Hole

             

Luzheng Chen – Visiting Academic

High Gradient Magnetic Separation of Hematite

             

Dr Jayne O’Shea

Determination of the indentation rolling resistance performance of conveyor belt compounds using mechanical and dielectric relaxation properties

             

Dr Jie Guo

Study on effective air pulsing to eliminate channelling within bulk material during dewatering

             

Dr Subhasish Mitra

On Bubble-particle Detachment Mechanisms in Coarse Particle Flotation

             

Dr Xinliang Liu

Interaction between lump ore and sinter under simulated BF

             

Chengzhi Li – PhD Student

DEM study on the packing characteristics of iron ore granule bed under varying operating conditions

             

Tobin Harvey – PhD Student

Influence of Maximum Temperature, Holding Time and Cooling Rate on the Strength of Sinter Analogues

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