Innovative Process Development in Metallurgical Industry

Dr. V.I. Lakshmanan is an internationally renowned teacher, scientist and innovator in the area of sustainable development. He has more than 40 years of hands-on experience in technology commercialization and skills development initiatives with both private and public sectors including the United Nations. He has successfully guided process technologies from concept through development and demonstration to commercialization for resource, energy and chemical industries. Dr. Lakshmanan is an Adjunct Professor within the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto and is a member of several private and public sector advisory committees on natural resources, recycling technologies and waste management. Dr. V. “Ram” Ramachandran has over 39 years of experience in non-ferrous metal industry with emphasis on process development and process improvements including water conservation and treatment. He received Milton. E. Wadsworth Hydrometallurgy Award in 2001 and Distinguished Services Award in 2008. Dr. Raja Roy has over 18 years of experience in minerals processing and metallurgical engineering with emphasis on process flowsheet development. He received Light Metals Recycling Award in 1998. He is currently Senior Project Manager at Process Research Ortech Inc. based in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

• 1. The Need for Process Innovation.- Part I-Separation Processes and Process Selection.- 2. Physical Processing - Innovations in Mineral Processing Process Development.- 3. Thermal Processing - Pyrometallurgy - Non-Ferrous.- 4. Thermal Processing - Pyrometallurgy -Ferrous.- 5. Chemical Processing - Hydrometallurgy.- 6. Biological Processing.- 7. Process Compression.- 8. Process Selection.- 9. Metallurgical Processing Innovations: Intellectual Property Perspectives and Management.- Part II - Process  Development.- Chapter 10 Conceptual idea, Test work, Design, Commissioning and Troubleshooting.- Part III - Process Optimization.- Chapter 11- An Integrated Mining & Metallurgical Enterprise Enabling Continuous Process Optimization.- Part IV - Equipment.- Chapter 12-  Equipment Development, Design and Optimization.- Part V Sustainable Development and Environmental Management.- Chapter 13- Sustainability Considerations in Innovative Process Development.- Part VI Steps to Commercialization.- Chapter 14-Process Development, Execution, Owner’s responsibility and Examples of Innovative Developments.- Part VII - Financing.- Chapter 15 - Investing, financing and harvesting  innovation and technology.- Part VIII  Case Study Examples.- 16.  Innovative case study processes in extractive metallurgy.- 17. Development of a New Technology for Converting Iron-bearing materials to Nodular Reduced Iron.- 18.  Innovative process for the production of Titanium dioxide.- 19. Innovative Processes In Electrometallurgy.- 20. Innovations In Gold and Silver Processing.- 21. Innovative Processes for By-Product Recovery and its applications.- 22. Conclusion. Process Optimization.- Equipment Selection, Design, Development and Optimization.- By-Product Production.- Environmental Management.- Steps to Commercialization.- Case Study examples.