Iron Ore

Dr Liming Lu is currently a Senior Principal Scientist leading CSIRO research and development in iron ore agglomeration and high temperature behaviour of resultant agglomerates during the blast furnace and other alternative ironmaking processes. Liming has more than 28 years R and D experience in the characterisation, processing and evaluation of iron ores, metallurgical coals and molten alloys. He has published 10 book chapters and more than 130 papers including 6 invited review. He is a Technical Expert of ISO Technical Committee TC102/SC3, which is reviewing and developing international standards for the physical testing of iron ore. Liming has served as a Key Reader for Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, a member of the Editorial Board for Ironmaking and Steelmaking and a member of the Advisory Board of ISIJ International. Liming was the recipient of Josef S Kapitan Award from American Iron and Steel Society in 2003 and Sawamura Award from the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan in 2018. He was appointed as an Adjunct Professor by Central South University, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Liaoning University of Science and Technology and Shanghai University in China.

• 1. Introduction: overview of the global iron ore industry2. Mineralogical, chemical and physical characteristics of iron ore3. XRD analysis and evaluation of raw and sintered iron ore4. Automated optical image analysis of natural and sintered iron ore5. Quantitative analysis of iron ore using SEM-based technologies6. Characterization of iron ore by visible and infrared reflectance and Raman spectroscopie7. Extraction techniques of iron ore8. Comminution and classification technologies of iron ore9. Physical separation of iron ore: magnetic separation10. Nonmagnetic physical separation technologies of hematitic/geothitic iron ore including dry separation11. Physiochemical separation of iron ore12. Chemical separation of iron ore13. Thermal beneficiation14. Application of biotechnology in iron ore beneficiation15. Iron ore sintering16. Iron ore pelletization17. Blast furnace iron making18. Alternative ironmaking processes19. Sintering emissions and their mitigation technologie20. Utilization of biomass as an alternative fuel in ironmaking21. Life cycle assessment of iron ore mining and processing22. Sustainable mining23. Ironmaking in japan - technologies for low grade raw materials, low carbon and environmental solution24. Low Carbon iron making technologies - an European approach25. Applications and challenges of biomass materials in iron and steel industry