Aqueous Process Engineering and Chemistry Group

The 2011 OLI MSE Regression Workshop was attended by Tasnuva Zakir, Michael Carlos and Doug Duffy.  This consisted of a two-day training course at OLI Systems Inc.’s office in Morris Plains, NJ, USA. The course covered the use of OLI’s ESP software to perform thermodynamic data regression on new experimental data.  This allows the addition to or improvement upon the database used by OLI’s Analyzer software to model new chemical systems.

The Nickel and Cobalt 2009 Conference of the Metallurgical Society of Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) was held August 23 to 26, 2009 in Sudbury.  At the conference, Ilya Perederiy presented a talk entitled “Pressure Oxidative Leaching of Slags from Nickel Smelters: An Update” and Ramanpal Saini gave a presentation entitled “On-Line Acid Measurements Via Electrodeless Conductivity in HPAL Processes for Nickel/Cobalt Extraction.” Also, two members of the APEC group received awards for their hard work. Ghazal Azimi received the 2009 Gordon M. Ritcey Award. This award recognizes graduate students in the field of Hydrometallurgy for outstanding performance and is accompanied with a $3,000 cash prize. Kevin McLean was awarded the Best Poster Award in the Graduate Student category. The poster entitled “Application of Molten Salt Hydrates to Laterite Nickel Ore Leaching and HCl Recovery” was co-authored by Jan de Bakker, a PhD student from Queen’s University.

Georgiana Moldoveanu joined the APEC group as a postdoctoral fellow.

Congratulations to Matthew Jones, who has successfully defended his Master’s thesis. Kevin McLean joined the APEC group as a Master’s student.

Congratulations to Ghazal Azimi on getting an OGS scholarship.

BBQ at the Professor’s house!

Congratulations to Ghazal Azimi on winning a Teaching Excellence Award.

Sammy Peters and Ramanpal Saini (Canada) joined the APEC group as Master’s students.

Congratulations to Dr. Ming Huang (AECL) on the successful defense of his Ph.D. thesis.

Congratulations to Professor Papangelakis, who became the first recipient of the Professor Diran Basmadjian Teacher of the Year award!