ProfessorJan Cilliers
Chair in Mineral Processing
Department of Earth Science & Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
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- Chair in Mineral ProcessingDepartment of Earth Science & Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
- 020 7594 7360 (Work)
- RSM 1.46B, Royal School of Mines, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom
BIO
Research Interests
Research interests in minerals processing, in particular froth flotation. Focus on measuring and manipulating the froth structure to optimise the separation achieved. Develop new techniques for measuring froth properties and particle motion in froths Modelling of froth based on physical models for process design Interests in mineral economics and the interaction between mineral processing and metal extraction.
Flotation froth structure
Froth stability measures
Froth models, including particle motion
Particle tracking in pulp and froth using PEPT (example of particle tracking - please be aware that this is a huge video file ~20MB)
Design of flotation vessels and flowsheets
Economics of metal recovery and waste disposal
Financial metal hedging
Recent Measures of Esteem
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, 2010 (Imperial College News)
Director: Rio Tinto Centre for Advanced Mineral Recovery.
Plenary address: IFACMMM 2010
Plenary Address: Procemin 2009 (Presentation)
Inaugural Lecture Imperial College February 2008 (presentation). Note: This is a very large file (~16MB).
2005-10 Rio Tinto Professor with funding of two staff and further £6 million of associated industrial research support
2006 Keynote speaker, CFD 2006, Melbourne
2007 Keynote speaker, China Forum on Mineral Processing, Kunming
2004 FIChemE; FIMMM
Biography
Professor, Imperial College London 2005-present
Professor, University of Manchester 2005
MBA, Manchester Business School, 2001
Reader, Senior Lecturer, Lecturer UMIST 1994-2005
Senior Lecturer and PhD University of Cape Town 1990-1994
BSc (Eng), MSc University of the Witwatersrand 1981-1986
Positions
Board, IMMM Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Division
International Mineral Processing Council: also leads the Commission on Education - IMPC Minerals Industry Education and Training Book download
Council of SAIMM
Research interests in minerals processing, in particular froth flotation. Focus on measuring and manipulating the froth structure to optimise the separation achieved. Develop new techniques for measuring froth properties and particle motion in froths Modelling of froth based on physical models for process design Interests in mineral economics and the interaction between mineral processing and metal extraction.
Flotation froth structure
Froth stability measures
Froth models, including particle motion
Particle tracking in pulp and froth using PEPT (example of particle tracking - please be aware that this is a huge video file ~20MB)
Design of flotation vessels and flowsheets
Economics of metal recovery and waste disposal
Financial metal hedging
Recent Measures of Esteem
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, 2010 (Imperial College News)
Director: Rio Tinto Centre for Advanced Mineral Recovery.
Plenary address: IFACMMM 2010
Plenary Address: Procemin 2009 (Presentation)
Inaugural Lecture Imperial College February 2008 (presentation). Note: This is a very large file (~16MB).
2005-10 Rio Tinto Professor with funding of two staff and further £6 million of associated industrial research support
2006 Keynote speaker, CFD 2006, Melbourne
2007 Keynote speaker, China Forum on Mineral Processing, Kunming
2004 FIChemE; FIMMM
Biography
Professor, Imperial College London 2005-present
Professor, University of Manchester 2005
MBA, Manchester Business School, 2001
Reader, Senior Lecturer, Lecturer UMIST 1994-2005
Senior Lecturer and PhD University of Cape Town 1990-1994
BSc (Eng), MSc University of the Witwatersrand 1981-1986
Positions
Board, IMMM Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Division
International Mineral Processing Council: also leads the Commission on Education - IMPC Minerals Industry Education and Training Book download
Council of SAIMM
FACULTY
- Faculty of Engineering
POSITION NAME
- Chair in Mineral Processing