Speaker
Prof.
Andrea Gerson
(Blue Minerals Consultancy)
Description
This presentation will provide an overview of industrial studies using synchrotron-based techniques undertaken over the past 20+ years by the presenter. The objective is to provide perspective on the wide scope of possible applications and motivations for industry participation. These applications focus mainly on minerals and materials studies and have included:
• wax crystallisation from diesel fuels using in situ energy dispersive diffraction and powder diffraction at Daresbury Laboratory;
• doping of titania pigments using XAS at Daresbury Laboratory and Hasylab;
• gibbsite precipitation using in situ diffraction at the Photon Factory,
• Cu activation of sulfide minerals using XAS at the Photon Factory,
• analysis of glass lenses at the Photon Factory,
• Pt speciation during refining using XAS at Anka,
• Ni and U mineralogy using microprobe analyses at the Advanced Light Source and Advanced Photon Source,
• Ni laterite leach residues using XAS at Anka,
• analysis of Ni alloys using microdiffraction at the Advanced Photon Source;
• cryogenic treatments of steels using microdiffraction at the Advanced Photon Source,
• chalcopyrite and pyrite leaching using SPEM at Electra and the Advanced Light Source,
• scaling in Bayer refineries using XAS at the Australian Synchrotron,
A wide range of companies have provided support of these studies including Exxon, QAL, Comalco, Alcoa, Worsley, Nabalco, Biliton, Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton, Amplats, Anglo America, Cytec, State Governments and Tiwest. Examples from these studies will be presented. How to involve companies in projects involving synchrotron studies will also be discussed as will the issues limiting greater industry participation.
| Do you wish to take part in</br>the Student Poster Slam? | No |
|---|---|
| What is your gender? | Female |
| Are you a student? | No |
| Are you an ECR? (<5 yrs</br>since PhD/Masters) | No |
| Keywords or phrases (comma separated) | Bayer refinery; XANES, single stream; scale; aluminosilicate, titanate; amorphous |
Primary author
Prof.
Andrea Gerson
(Blue Minerals Consultancy)
Co-authors
Dr
Jun Li
(University of South Australia)
Ms
Lina Shi
(University of South Australia)
Dr
Ning Xu
(University of South Australia)
Dr
Nobuyuki Kawashima
(University of South Australia)
