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AMPRG Seminars and conferences
2021
- Paulina Quintanilla - Development and validation of a dynamic flotation model for flotation predictive control incorporating froth physics. Flotation 21, November 2021
- Diego Mesa - Hydrodynamics of the liquid in a three-phase flotation system A new alginate tracer for positron emission particle tracking (PEPT) Flotation 21, November 2021
- Paulina Quintanilla - Development and validation of a dynamic flotation model for flotation predictive control incorporating froth physics. Advances in the Digitalisation of the Process Industries, IChemE, October 2021.
- Paulina Quintanilla - Validation and implementation of a dynamic flotation model for predictive control including froth physics. Procemin Geomet, October 2021
- Paulina Quintanilla - Development and validation of a dynamic flotation model for flotation predictive control incorporating froth physics. International Conference in Raw Materials and Circular Economy, Athens, Greece, September 2021.
- Diego Mesa - Retrofit designs for the pulp-froth interface: Impacts on air recovery and froth stability. International Conference in Raw Materials and Circular Economy, Athens, Greece, September 2021.
- Diego Mesa - Hydrodynamic characterization of flotation impeller designs using Positron Emission Particle Tracking (PEPT) - Advances in Mixing for the Manufacturing Industry A National Showcase, IChemE, July 2021.
- Reuben Cruise - Beneficiation of Lunar Regolith: Progress and Challenges - Luxembourg Space Resources Week, April 2021.
2020
- Virtual seminar series between AMPRG and Lab. of Chemical Process Engineering from Technische Universit瓣t M羹nchen (TUM). November-December 2020.
Topics: (1) Multi-criteria process assessment; (2) Methods for process design, optimisation and control; (3) Resources recovery.
- Diego Mesa & Pablo Brito-Parada - Hydrodynamic characterization of flotation impeller designs using Positron Emission Particle Tracking. 30th International Mineral Processing Congress (IMPC 2020), Cape Town, South Africa, 2020. (in pre-print)
- Pablo Brito-Parada & Diego Mesa - Froth zone design optimisation the key to enhancing recovery in large flotation cells. 30th International Mineral Processing Congress (IMPC 2020), Cape Town, South Africa, 2020. (in pre-print)
- Diego Mesa & Pablo Brito-Parada - Macroturbulence experienced by a hydrophobic particle in a flotation vessel with retrofit designs measured with positron emitting particle tracking (PEPT). 30th International Mineral Processing Congress (IMPC 2020), Cape Town, South Africa, 2020. (in pre-print)
- Diego Mesa - Reprocessing historic tailings three Chilean case studies. Procemin GEOMET, November 2020.
- Joshua Rasera - Space Resources Towards a Sustainable Future in Space and on Earth. NXGEN Resources, November 2020
- Luis Salinas Farr獺n - Combining XMT and MLA to describe the structural evolution of agglomerated ores: The impact of chloride ions in the curing process. Hydroprocess, October 2020.
- Reuben Cruise - Mining Oxygen on the Moon Transforming Dry Mineral Processing for Space and Earth. XVI international forum-contest of students and young researchers 竄Topical issues of rational use of natural resources罈, June 2020.
- Luis Salinas Farran - XMT based assessment of the performance of agglomerated sulphide ores: The impact of long curing times and the addition of chloride ions. 30th International Mineral Processing Congress (IMPC 2020), Cape Town, South Africa, 2020.
- Francisco Reyes - "Reinforcement learning control of a SAG mill grinding circuit: first impressions and implications for process control". 30th International Mineral Processing Congress (IMPC 2020), Cape Town, South Africa, 2020. (in pre-print)
2019
- Diego Mesa - Froth stability and flotation performance: the effect of impeller design modifications". Flotation 2019, Cape Town, South Africa, November 2019.
- Luis Salinas Farran - Quantifying the effects of mass transport and mineralogy in the curing and leaching of agglomerated ores. PROCEMIN Geomet 2019, Santiago, Chile.
- Juliana Segura-Salazar - Assessing the impact of process variability on the metallurgical and environmental performance of modular, small-scale mineral processing circuits. IMPC-EURASIA 2019, Antalya, 31 October 2 November 2019.
- Joshua Rasera - The beneficiation of lunar regolith using electrostatic separation for Space Resource Utilisation. 70th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2019), Washington D.C., USA, October 21-25, 2019.
- Jorge valos-Patino - Studying the impact of an inhomogeneous participating medium in a coupled convection-radiation system using finite element based methods. XII International Conference on Computational Heat, Mass and Momentum Transfer, Rome, Italy, September 3-6, 2019.
- Diego Mesa - Challenges in Mineral Processing". Society of Economic Geologists 2019, Lima, Peru, September 2019.
- Paulina Quintanilla - Dynamic physics-based flotation models for effective predictive control: State-of-the-art". International Federation of Automatic Control Conference - Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing, Stellenbosch, South Africa, August 2019.
- Peipei Wang - Drag coefficient prediction of a particle-laden bubble rising in water 8th Bubble and Drop Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria, June24-28, 2019.
- Fernando Sitorus - An integrated constrained fuzzy stochastic AHP method for overcoming the choice problem in group decision making under uncertainty. 30th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2019), Dublin, Ireland, June 2326, 2019.
- Juliana Segura-Salazar - "Mineral processing simulators: State-of-the-art and future challenges. Computational Modelling19, Falmouth, Cornwall, June 11-12, 2019.
2018
- Francisco Reyes - "Quantifying Mineral Liberation Using X-ray MicroCT: What can a 3D analysis tell us?". Procemin Geomet 2018, Santiago, Chile, November 2830, 2018.
- Isobel Mackay - "Optimising Froth Stability of Copper Flotation Tailings" 29th International Minerals Processing Conference (IMPC2018), Moscow, Russia, September 2018
- Diego Mesa - Effect of impeller design on bubble size and froth stability". International Mineral Processing Congress XXIX, Moscow, Russia, September 2018.
- Diego Mesa - Effect of frother type on clay-rich froth behaviour". International Mineral Processing Congress XXIX, Moscow, Russia, September 2018.
- Francisco Reyes - "Quantifying mineral liberation by grade and surface exposure using X-ray micro-tomography for flotation processes". 29th International Mineral Processing Congress (IMPC 2018), Moscow, Russia, September 1721, 2018.
- Dennis Vega - CFD modelling of classification in mini-hydrocyclones. International Mineral Processing Congress, Moscow, Russia, September 2018
- Juliana Segura-Salazar - "Towards a systemic and process-based approach for Life Cycle Assessment improvement in the minerals industry on the basis of computational modelling and simulation.Life Cycle Innovation Conference, Berlin, August 2018.
- Hao Wang - Experimental studies of overflowing pseudo-2D foam with different launder designs ". EUFOAM Conference 2018, Belgium, July 2018.
2017
- Isobel Mackay -"Dynamic Froth Stability of Copper Flotation Tailings" 8th International Flotation Conference (Flotation '17), Cape Town, South Africa, November 2017
- Peipei Wang - BASF selective metal collectors for enhanced sulphide flotation. Flotation '17, Cape Town, South Africa, November13-16, 2017.
- Peipei Wang - The effect of surface coverage of particles on the initial behaviour of rising bubbles Flotation '17, Cape Town, South Africa, November13-16, 2017.
- Dennis Vega - The effect of design parameters on the separation performance of small hydrocyclones Experimental and CFD studies. World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Barcelona, Spain, October, 2017.
- Francisco Reyes - "Multiple Species Leaching Simulator at the Particle Scale". Computational Modelling 17, Falmouth, United Kingdom, June 1214, 2017.
- Dennis Vega - Optimising small hydrocyclones for fine particle classification. Physical Separation, Falmouth, United Kingdom, June, 2017.