Mineral Processing and Particle Technology

• A pressure-change pycnometer for rapid determination of the volume of rigid non-porous materials: application to measurement of the density of mineral particles
• Agglomeration behaviour of model clay and oxide minerals
• An investigation on the synthesis of the uranium mineral brannerite
• Analysis of Consolidation Behaviors of Tofu and Okara as Soft Colloids
• Calixarene Derivatives for the Complexation of Cesium and Thallium Cations
• CFD Simulation of Solid-liquid Stirred Tanks
• Characterisation of Zeta Potential at the Flocculated-Dispersed Transition State via Dilute Oxide Suspensions
• Characterization of drum mixers flow regimes using Markov chains
• Conformational Molecular Structure-Interaction Force Correlation in Influencing Effective Steric between Alumina and Malic Acid
• Continuous Mini-thickener Column for Evaluation of Poly(N-Isopropylacrylamide) as a Reversible Flocculant/Dispersant
• Development of a Lagrangian-Lagrangian coupling method for solid-liquid flows
• Development of a large scale discrete element modeling for fine particle conveying
• Direct Measurement of the Bulk Density of Cohesive Particulate Materials by a Quasi-continuous in-line Weighing Method
• Dissolution studies on synthetic coffinite
• Effect of Nickel Laterite Agglomerate Properties on its Strength and Leaching Performance
• Effect of Temperature on Copper and Zinc Hydroxide Formation/Precipitation
• Effect of Water Quality on Froth Stability in Flotation
• Evaporation-Induced Self-Assembly of Uniform Silica Microparticles with Mesoscopic Structures via Spray Drying
• Fundamental Studies on Wet Oxidation of Bayer Liquor Organics: Reaction Mechanism
• Image Analysis-based Sizing of Oxalate Crystals
• In-situ observation of nano-particle behavior under microwave irradiation
• Influence of Aggregate Structure on Suspension Yield Stress: a Numerical Study
• Influence of Pyrite Content on Chalcopyrite Recovery and Selectivity after regrinding in IsaMill
• Investigation of the Fundamentals of Nickel Laterite ore Agglomeration Process
• Large Scale Discrete Element Modeling of Fine Particles in a Gas-Solid Flow
• Measurement of Particle size Distribution of Rutile fine Particles in Non-aqueous Solvent by Interactive Force Apparatus under an Electric Field
• Microstructure analysis of mineral ore agglomerates for enhanced processability
• Mineralogical characterisation of three Australian nickel laterites
• Monitoring Surfaces of Mineral Particles using Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy
• Nano-mechanical Properties of Clay-Stabilized Emulsions
• Nucleation, Growth and Overlap of Nanoscopic Sulfur Domains during Galena Oxidation
• Preparation of pH-Responsive Core-Cross-Linked Polymer Micelle
• Rapid determination of Beverloo parameters of particulate materials via direct measurement of volumetric flow rate
• Secondary Nucleation Studies on Lactose
• Single Step Assembly of Uniform Core-Shell Hybrid Microparticles
• Structure and properties of flouroalkylsilane treated nano-titania
• Study of hydrodynamic behaviour of fluidised bed with a jet at sub-atmospheric pressures
• Study on trajectories of granular matter during collapse processes in heaps
• Synergistic Adsorption of Mixture of Alcohols at Water/Air Interface
• Upgrading of low-grade gold ore samples for improved particle characterisation using Micro-CT and SEM/EDX

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