Our
goal is to create a team of researchers and professionals deeply involved
in Red Mud utilisation and willing to help in finding a solution for the
disposal of Red Mud.
Ideally,
a number of persons from all countries who experience the disposal problem
of Red Mud, and not only, will form "The Team" of tomorrow.
It is obvious that in this effort there is not a hierarchy and that all
individuals and research groups are entitled to a uncensored standpoint
for the presentation of their views and ideas.
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George
N. Angelopoulos
George
N. Angelopoulos is an Associate Professor and the director of
the Materials and Metallurgy Laboratory at the Chemical Engineering
Department, University of Patras, Greece. Dr. Angelopoulos’
specialization is the high temperature materials’ processes.
His early research was on pyrometallurgy. He focused on the study
of thermodynamics and kinetics of reduction smelting and on slag-metal
reactions. He has elaborated mathematical models of high temperature
processes. Today his actual research interests are focused on
surface modification processes and the protective coatings of
metals as well as on the utilization of metallurgical by-products
and waste materials. He has an extended collaboration with the
main metallurgical, cement and ceramic industries of Greece and
a broad experience on pilot plant experiments. He has been held
National Expert and Executive Member of the F7 “Surface
Characteristics”, ECSC, European Committee as well as independent
expert of EU Sixth Framework Programme. He is scientific coordinator
of 10 and has participated in more than 20 EU and national projects
respectively. He has co-authored more than 100 publications in
international journals and conference proceedings and has an EU
patent application No.01600011.9 -1215/1260289. Within the frame
of his educational activities, he is instructor of several courses
concerning the materials’ science and engineering, coordinator
of the industrial training of Chemical Engineering students and
supervisor of doctoral, master and diploma theses. Contact him
at ga at redmud.org
(more, visit MetLab)
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Panagiotis
Nikolopoulos
Dr.
Nikolopoulos is a professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering,
University of Patras. His research area is focused on interfacial
properties between solid ceramics and liquid or solid metallic phases,
bioceramics and concrete technology. Contact him at nikolop at chemeng.upatras.gr
(more, visit MetLab)
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Harish
K. Chandwani
Harish
K. Chandwani is a dipl. Chemical Engineer with post-graduate studies
in Business Administration, Marketing and Production Management
in India. He is currently working as Alumina Specialist with Mining
and Metal Global Business Unit of Bechtel India Pvt. Ltd., New
Delhi Execution Unit. He has 32 years of rich experience in Bayer
process of alumina extraction in the filed of plant operation,
maintenance, R&D and project implementation. He started his
career with the commissioning of Korba alumina refinery, based
on Hungarian know-how, in India followed by plant operation. He
was instrumental in setting up UNDP assisted Jawaharlal Nehru
Aluminium Research Development and Design Centre, Nagpur, India,
and worked in technological testing of bauxite for optimization
of process parameters and bauxite residue eco-friendly disposal
and utilisation aspects. He had coordinated the feasibility studies
of Kutch alumina project followed by principal approval from the
government. He has recently executed the pre-feasibility studies
of Chalco bid project and Comalco Alumina Refinery Stage-2 expansion
in Australia. He has 25 nos. of technical publications in journals,
national and international conferences. Contact him hkch2 at rediffmail.com
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Yiannis
Pontikes
Yiannis concluded his PhD in the lab. of Materials and Metallurgy
(MetLab), dpt. of Chemical Engineering, University of Patras.
He is dipl. Chemical Engineer (2002) and also the developer and
administrator of the site (www.redmud.org). For the past years Yiannis is with KU Leuven as a post-doctoral fellow where he coordinates the Secondary Resources for Building Materials cluster, SReBMat. He has been involved
in the project as an undergraduate student from the very beginning
(1999). His PhD thesis
was to examine the possibility of employing Red Mud in the production
of bricks and roofing tiles with no or slight alterations in the
production cycle and the quality of end products. He has performed
parts of his thesis in the Italian Ceramic Centre, Bologna, Italy,
Alfred University, NY, USA and Imperial College, UK. Contact him
at yp at redmud.org
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Snigdha
Sushil
Dr. Sushil recently acquired her PhD from TERI University, New Delhi,
India. Her PhD thesis involved studying the catalytic property of
red mud for the control of certain industrial emissions. She has
an M.Sc. in Environment Management (2004) and a Bachelors in Science
from Delhi University (2002). In
the past, she has worked on the heavy metals content of fly ash
from thermal power plants and on the effluents from thermo-chemical
biomass gasifiers. Contact her at snigdhasushil at gmail.com
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Wanchao
Liu
Wanchao
Liu is a PhD graduate from College of Environmental Science and Engineering,
Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China. His
thesis was about comprehensive utilization of red mud. He wants to
recovery iron, alumina and sodium from red mud, and to use the residues
in cement production. His supervisor, Prof. Jiakuan Yang, dean of
Environmental Engineering Department, HUST, has been doing research
work since 2001 on producing non-cremation brick, microcrystalline
glass and element recovery from red mud. Contact him at wanchao_liu
at hotmail.com.
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Adibhatla
Santharam
Adibhatla
Santharam is a Senior Mining geologist with the Mining Reaearch
and Consultancy Division, Indian Bureau of Mines, at Nagpur. Contact
him at ramas0450 at yahoo.co.in. |
Dr.
S. S. Amritphale
Dr.
S. S. Amritphale is currently Senior Scientist at Advanced Materials
and Processes Research Institute, (AMPRI), Formerly Regional Research
Laboratory, CSIR, Bhopal M.P. India. He has twenty-seven years
of diverse experience in research (both basic and applied) in
the area of Applied Chemistry, Ceramics, Wastes Utilization, Environmental
and Societal Mission. His expertise is in the area of “total
utilization” of industrial wastes for making high value
added functional materials by developing innovative processes
utilizing concepts of Chemical – Ceramic processing. He
has published 54 scientific research papers in the international
and national Journals and Conference proceedings and filed 14
national and 2 international patents in Germany (Pat. Grant No.
19952337) and USA respectively. Presently, his R&D work is
in the area of “Development of Non toxic X-ray and Gamma
radiation shielding materials utilizing industrial waste, namely
bauxite red mud and fly ash”. Contact him at ssamritphalerrl
at yahoo.co.in
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Mr.
Suresh Chauhan
Mr.
Suresh Chauhan holds Master’s degree in Environmental Science
from the University of Garhwal, Srinagar, Uttaranchal, Diploma in
Computer Application from NIIT, Dehradun and Diploma in Remote Sensing
from IIRS, Dehradun Uttaranchal. He has been associated with the
Forestry & Biodiversity Group of TERI, since October 2000. He
has been extensively working in the field of forest ecology, rehabilitation
of degraded wastelands and modern nursery techniques in TERI. He
has worked on a large number of multidisciplinary research, consultancy
and implementation projects funded by World Bank, SDC, UNDP, EU
and Union/State Governments.
Currently,
he is Associate Fellow in TERI, and involved in the various consultancy
research projects in devising mechanism for rehabilitation of mine
dumps through vegetation. He has contributed number of publications
in the field of biomass assessment and rehabilitation of mine dump
wastes. He has coordinated number of workshops and training program
in TERI and also participated in various national and international
conferences.
His
research study was conducted to rehabilitate used red mud ponds
of INDAL (Indian Aluminium Company Ltd.), Belgaum, Karnataka, India,
by identifying suitable trees, grasses, and legume species as well
as amenders, including bacteria and mycorrhizae, to improve the
physico-chemical condition of red mud deposits and convert it to
a substrate. Amenders such as gypsum, FYM (farmyard manure), fly
ash/vegetative dust in different proportions, forming three basic
combinations, A, B, and C, were developed. These three combinations
were then treated with the bacteria and mycorrhizae both alone,
and in combination, to form twelve treatments and one control. The
research study showed that there is remarkable change in the physical
and chemical properties of red mud after amendment, which provides
the platform for plantation growth. The best combination found for
treating red mud ponds was: Red mud + 20% FYM + 10% Gypsum + 15%
Fly ash + Bacteria + Mycorrhizae for four tree species, Prosophis
juliflora, Acacia nilotica, Pongamia pinnata and Melia azedarac,
and three grass/legume species Brachiaria mutica, Chloris gayana,
and Sesbania sesban. Contact him at sureshc at teri.res.in |
Dr.
Justin Hargreaves
Justin
Hargreaves is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry,
University of Glasgow. His research interests centre upon heterogeneous
catalysis. Particular areas of interest include alkane activation,
oxidation catalysis and novel nitrogen transfer pathways. His interest
in red mud stems from a UKIERI British Council Grant, which is held
jointly with TERI, New Delhi where the aim is to investigate the
application of red mud to the co-generation of hydrogen and carbon
sorbents. He is working with Vidya Bartra, Malini Blalakrishnan
and Snigdha Sushil (all TERI, New Delhi), Jose Rico (Morelia, Mexico)
and Ian Pulford (Glasgow) in this area. Contact him at justinh at
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Dr.
José Luis Rico Cerda
J.L.
Rico obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Slovak Technical
University, Czechoslovakia, and was then a postdoctoral research
fellow at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He then became a staff member
at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Michoacan University,
Morelia, México. His research interest focuses on heterogeneous
catalysis in the areas of hydrotreating, production of hydrogen,
biodiesel, water treatment and metal nitrides. He also had some
research periods at the Hokkaido University, Japan, University of
Zaragoza, Spain, and at the University of Liverpool, UK. He is actually
spending a sabbatical year in the Department of Chemistry, University
of Glasgow, UK, doing research on the generation of hydrogen using
red mud as catalyst. For this purpose, he is collaborating with
J.S.J. Hargreaves (Glasgow), S. Sushil (India), V.S. Batra (India)
and I.D. Pulford (Glasgow), M. Balakrishnan (India).
Address: Laboratorio de Catálisis,
Facultad de Ingeniería Química, Universidad Michoacana,
Edificio E, CU, Morelia Mich., C.P. 58060 México. E-mail:
jlrico at umich.mx, fax +52-443-3167176.
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Dr.
Alok Satapathy
Dr.
Alok Satapathy is an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Mechanical
Eng. at the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela in India.
He graduated from University College of Engineering, Burla, India
in 1990, obtained his M.Tech. in Thermal Engineering in the year
1993 and Ph.D. in 2006 from the National Institute of Technology,
Rourkela. His doctoral work was on plasma sprayed red mud coatings.
His research interest lies in the area of utilization of red mud
in developing protective coatings and functional composites. He
has guided about 15 Masters’ Theses and is presently guiding
a number of doctoral students in Engineering. He has published 28
research papers in International Journals, presented about 45 papers
in National Seminars and 26 papers in various International Conferences.
He has received the Best Paper Award of the Institution of Engineers
(India) twice. He has attended conferences and visited a number
of research laboratories in Singapore, Malaysia, U.A.E. and United
States of America. Contact
him at satapathy.alok_at_gmail.com. |
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Dr.
Suvarapu Lakshmi Narayana
Dr.
Suvarapu Lakshmi Narayana is a Post Doctoral Fellow at the School
of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pusan National Univeristy,
Korea. He was awarded a PhD from Sri Venkateswara University at
2008 and is now working on metal stabilization in mine drainage
soil samples by using red mud. Contact
him at lakshminarayana_chem_at_rediffmail.com. |
Dr.
Upendra Singh
Dr.
Upendra Singh, is presently working as scientist (Analytical Research
Division) in Jawaharlal Nehru Aluminium Research Development and
Design Centre, Nagpur, India. He has about 12 years of experience
in the field of raw material, intermediate products, finished products
and industrial wastes analyses and characterization from aluminium
industries. He is also monitoring projects on red mud utilization
and development of value added product from other industrial wastes.
Earlier, he had worked as R&D Officer (Chemical) with about
8 years experience in manufacturing process, Quality control, Research
& Development at Hindalco Industries Ltd, Renukoot, India. He
was also involved in execution of many industrial projects for the
improvement of process and development of value added materials.
He
did his Ph.D in chemistry from Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi,
India in the year 1998 in the area of conducting polymers. He has
published about 7 national and international research papers in
different reputed journals and is the recipient of the prestigious
International LIGHT METAL “Recycling Technology award”
for 2005 by The Mineral, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) of USA
in recognition of most notable recycling technology research paper
published in Light Metal 2005 on extraction of value added product
from industrial waste dross. Contact
him at singhu1970 at rediffmail.com. |
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Mr. Platon Gamaletsos
Platon Gamaletsos is a senior PhD candidate at University of Athens, Greece. He is working on Greek industrial bauxite and Red Mud (bauxite
residue) from the Parnassos-Ghiona active mining area under the supervision of Assist. Prof. Athanasios Godelitsas and in close collaboration with the three mining companies Aluminium of Greece S.A., S&B Industrial Minerals S.A. and ELMIN Hellenic Mining Enterprises S.A.
exploiting bauxite in Greece. P.G's Ph.D thesis is focused on the detailed determination of mineralogical and geochemical characteristics of Parnassos-Ghiona bauxite, in different scales (including micro- and
nano-scale) using advanced spectroscopic and analytical techniques and synchrotron radiation (micro-XANES / EXAFS). Moreover, he is investigating distribution and speciation of contaminants (e.g. Cr, As, V, Th) in aluminium ore - bauxite - from Hungary and Balkans related to Red Mud from Ajka alumina plant (Hungary), as well as in Greek industrial bauxite and in Greek bauxite residue (red mud), especially, by means of X-ray absorption spectroscopy (micro-XANES / EXAFS). For this purposes he is collaborating with the X-ray beamline of the Synchrotron Laboratory for Environmental Studies (Synchrotron Umwelt-Labor SUL) of ANKA Synchrotron facility. Additionally, he is collaborating with Bentomine Kimolian Enterprises S.A. for the identification of clay minerals and especially zeolites using separated standard wet-chemical and centrifugation procedures and Powder X-ray Diffraction.
Platon Gamaletsos is member of NuSTRAP group (http://magneticmoments.info/nustrap/index.php). Contact him at platon_gk at geol.uoa.gr |
Ms. Kumud Dubey
Ms. Kumud Dubey is at present Scientist in Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education, Deharadun and posted at Centre for Social Forestry and Eco- Rehabilitation, Allahabad, U.P. India. She is M.Sc. in Biochemistry. She has done her Ph.D. on “Bioreclamation of Silica Mining Area of Shankargarh, Allahabad” from Forest Research Institute, Dehradun (submitted). Presently she is running a project on “Bio-remediation of Bauxite Residue (Red Mud) through Bioinnoculants”. Contact her at dkumud at yahoo.com and dkumud at gmail.com.
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Leonardo
Esposito
Dr. Eng. Esposito
has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of
Bologna. He is currently Senior Scientist at Centro Ceramico Bologna,
Department of Technical Advanced Ceramics, where is head of the
mechanical testing laboratory. His studies deal with theoretical
models and experimental procedures for the characterisation of
the mechanical behaviour of ceramic composites, oxides and non
oxides ceramics and traditional ceramics. Current focus of research
are also the modelling of elastic properties in ceramic having
graded porosity and tribology of advanced ceramics.He is the winner
of the “Biolox Award 2002” on bioceramic. He is author
of more than 170 scientific papers on National and International
Journals, Congress Proceedings and books, and reviewer of International
Journal on these topics.
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Antonella Tucci
Dr.
Tucci had her Degree in Chemistry, University of Bologna, and her
PhD in "Engineering of Materials” Faculty of Engineering,
University of Bologna. She is currently Senior Scientist at Centro
Ceramico Bologna, Department of Technical Advanced Ceramics, where
she is head of the mineralogical and microstructural laboratory.
Her research area is focused in the correlations between microstructure
and mechanical properties of ceramics, including bioceramics, ceramic
composites, oxides and non oxides ceramics and traditional ceramics.
Current focus of research are also photocatalytic and antibacterial
surfaces for traditional ceramics. She is author of more than 150
scientific papers on National and International Journals, Proceedings
of Congress and books, and reviewer of International Journal on
this topics.
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Ivan
Stamenkovic
Graduated
at the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy (1961), Doctoral Thesis
with the same Faculty (1968), University of Belgrade. Researcher
at the Institute of Nuclear Sciences-Reactor Materials Department
and Head of Institute of Materials (80 employees) (1975), Belgrade.
Lecturer: courses on thermodynamics, physical chemistry and ordinary
professor on "science of materials" (1990). Italian Ceramic
Centre, Faculty of Engineering, University of Bologna (1989-present).
He has professional experience in thermal properties of ceramics
DTA, TGA, Physical parameters ceramic powders, Natural uranium oxide
fuel technology, Heat insulating refractories, Mixed oxides, Sol-gel
powders, Bio-ceramics, Advanced shaping of traditional ceramics,
Development of ceramic tiles having functional surface. He has over
150 publications in different languages a number of patents (YU-11343/80,
P-1457/75, 1980; RE 2001 A000063-Italy, 2001) and speaks English,
Italian, Russian, German, Spanish (scientific), French (scientific). |
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