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AMPRG Seminars and conferences

2021
  • Paulina Quintanilla - 鈥淒evelopment and validation of a dynamic flotation model for flotation predictive control incorporating froth physics.鈥  Flotation 21鈥, November 2021
  • Diego Mesa - 鈥淗ydrodynamics of the liquid in a three-phase flotation system 鈥 A new alginate tracer for positron emission particle tracking (PEPT)鈥 Flotation 21鈥, November 2021
  • Paulina Quintanilla - 鈥淒evelopment and validation of a dynamic flotation model for flotation predictive control incorporating froth physics.鈥  Advances in the Digitalisation of the Process Industries, IChemE, October 2021.
  • Paulina Quintanilla - 鈥淰alidation and implementation of a dynamic flotation model for predictive control including froth physics.鈥  Procemin 鈥 Geomet, October 2021
  • Paulina Quintanilla - 鈥淒evelopment and validation of a dynamic flotation model for flotation predictive control incorporating froth physics.鈥 International Conference in Raw Materials and Circular Economy, Athens, Greece, September 2021.
  • Diego Mesa - 鈥淩etrofit designs for the pulp-froth interface:  Impacts on air recovery and froth stability鈥. International Conference in Raw Materials and Circular Economy, Athens, Greece, September 2021.
  • Diego Mesa - 鈥淗ydrodynamic characterization of flotation impeller designs using Positron Emission Particle Tracking (PEPT)鈥 - Advances in Mixing for the Manufacturing Industry 鈥 A National Showcase, IChemE, July 2021.
  • Reuben Cruise - 鈥淏eneficiation of Lunar Regolith: Progress and Challenges鈥 - Luxembourg Space Resources Week, April 2021.
2020
  • Virtual seminar series between AMPRG and Lab. of Chemical Process Engineering from Technische Universit盲t M眉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 - 鈥淗ydrodynamic characterization of flotation impeller designs using Positron Emission Particle Tracking鈥. 30th International Mineral Processing Congress (IMPC 2020), Cape Town, South Africa, 2020. (in pre-print)

  •  Pablo Brito-Parada & Diego Mesa - 鈥淔roth zone design optimisation 鈥 the key to enhancing recovery in large flotation cells鈥. 30th International Mineral Processing Congress (IMPC 2020), Cape Town, South Africa, 2020. (in pre-print)
  • Diego Mesa & Pablo Brito-Parada - 鈥淢acroturbulence experienced by a hydrophobic particle in a flotation vessel with retrofit designs measured with positron emitting particle tracking (PEPT)鈥. 30th International Mineral Processing Congress (IMPC 2020), Cape Town, South Africa, 2020. (in pre-print)
  • Diego Mesa - 鈥淩eprocessing historic tailings 鈥 three Chilean case studies鈥. Procemin GEOMET, November 2020.
  • Joshua Rasera - 鈥淪pace Resources 鈥 Towards a Sustainable Future in Space and on Earth鈥. NXGEN Resources, November 2020
  • Luis Salinas Farr谩n - 鈥淐ombining XMT and MLA to describe the structural evolution of agglomerated ores: The impact of chloride ions in the curing process鈥. Hydroprocess, October 2020.
  • Reuben Cruise - 鈥淢ining Oxygen on the Moon 鈥 Transforming Dry Mineral Processing for Space and Earth鈥. XVI international forum-contest of students and young researchers 芦Topical issues of rational use of natural resources禄, June 2020.
  • Luis Salinas Farran - 鈥淴MT based assessment of the performance of agglomerated sulphide ores: The impact of long curing times and the addition of chloride ions鈥. 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 - 鈥Froth stability and flotation performance: the effect of impeller design modifications". Flotation 2019, Cape Town, South Africa, November 2019.
  • Luis Salinas Farran - 鈥淨uantifying the effects of mass transport and mineralogy in the curing and leaching of agglomerated ores鈥. PROCEMIN 鈥 Geomet 2019, Santiago, Chile.
  • Juliana Segura-Salazar - 鈥淎ssessing the impact of process variability on the metallurgical and environmental performance of modular, small-scale mineral processing circuits鈥. IMPC-EURASIA 2019, Antalya, 31 October 鈥 2 November 2019.
  • Joshua Rasera - 鈥The beneficiation of lunar regolith using electrostatic separation for Space Resource Utilisation鈥. 70th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2019), Washington D.C., USA, October 21-25, 2019.
  • Jorge 脕valos-Patino - 鈥淪tudying the impact of an inhomogeneous participating medium in a coupled convection-radiation system using finite element based methods鈥. XII International Conference on Computational Heat, Mass and Momentum Transfer, Rome, Italy, September 3-6, 2019.
  • Diego Mesa - 鈥Challenges in Mineral Processing". Society of Economic Geologists 2019, Lima, Peru, September 2019.
  • Paulina Quintanilla - 鈥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 - 鈥Drag coefficient prediction of a particle-laden bubble rising in water鈥 8th Bubble and Drop Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria, June24-28, 2019.
  • Fernando Sitorus  - 鈥淎n integrated constrained fuzzy stochastic AHP method for overcoming the choice problem in group decision making under uncertainty鈥. 30th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2019), Dublin, Ireland, June 23鈥26, 2019.

  • Juliana Segura-Salazar - "Mineral processing simulators: State-of-the-art and future challenges鈥. Computational Modelling鈥19, 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 28鈥30, 2018.
  • Isobel Mackay - "Optimising Froth Stability of Copper Flotation Tailings" 29th International Minerals Processing Conference (IMPC2018), Moscow, Russia, September 2018
  • Diego Mesa - 鈥Effect of impeller design on bubble size and froth stability". International Mineral Processing Congress XXIX, Moscow, Russia, September 2018.
  • Diego Mesa - 鈥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 17鈥21, 2018.
  • Dennis Vega - 鈥淐FD modelling of classification in mini-hydrocyclones鈥. 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鈥.Life Cycle Innovation Conference, Berlin, August 2018.
  • Hao Wang - 鈥淓xperimental 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 - 鈥淏ASF selective metal collectors for enhanced sulphide flotation鈥. Flotation '17, Cape Town, South Africa, November13-16, 2017.
  • Peipei Wang - 鈥淭he effect of surface coverage of particles on the initial behaviour of rising bubbles鈥 Flotation '17, Cape Town, South Africa, November13-16, 2017.
  • Dennis Vega - 鈥淭he effect of design parameters on the separation performance of small hydrocyclones 鈥 Experimental and CFD studies鈥. 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 12鈥14, 2017. 

  • Dennis Vega - 鈥淥ptimising small hydrocyclones for fine particle classification鈥. Physical Separation, Falmouth, United Kingdom, June, 2017.