CSRP Newsletter, October 2005

Welcome to the October 2005 edition of the CSRP Newsletter. If you wish to have anything included in the newsletter, please e-mail Kelly Dwyer at kelly.dwyer@csrp.com.au

• Welcome Back Stevan Green
• On the Move
• CSRP Workshop, AGM and Participants Forum
• Welcome New Students
• Publications
• Conferences
• New Publications

Welcome Back to Stevan Green

Stevan Green, CEO of CSRP, will be returning on the 1st November in a part-time capacity and will resume travel in the New Year. To ensure a smooth transition, Erica Smyth will be delegated certain responsibilities and will continue CSRP travel until Christmas. Welcome back Stevan.

 

On the Move

Dr Vanessa Guthrie, member of CSRP’s Industry Steering Committee (ISC), has taken up a position with URS. We hope Vanessa will continue as a member of the ISC, providing guidance on Program 1. We wish her luck in her new role.

 

CSRP Workshop, AGM and Participants Forum

A workshop looking at sustainability methodologies and tools used by industry, the CSRP Annual General Meeting and the Participants Forum will be held on 7 th, 8 th and 9 th December respectively. All 3 events will be held at the ARRC Building, 26 Dick Perry Ave, Kensington, WA (CSRP Headquarters).

CSRP Workshop

This will offer a workshop environment to all participants (and any of their employees) to hear about up to date methodologies being used to frame, assess and implement sustainability decisions.

 

AGM

This year’s AGM will be held on the 8th December 2005 at 2pm in the ARRC Auditorium.

 

Participants Forum

The Participants’ Forum will consist of a series of talks (and discussions) on Program 3 and Program 4 topics. The Forum will be lead by Prof Rene van Berkel (Program 3 Manager) and Dr Sharif Jahanshahi (Program 4 Manager). Further details on the Forum will be forwarded shortly.

Welcome New Students

We have three new students to welcome to CSRP.

Jacqueline Medvecka is completing her PhD at the University of Queensland and is supervised by Prof David Brereton. Her thesis is entitled “How to Adopt Sustainability as a Core Dimension of Decision Making in Projects for the Mining and Metallurgical Industries”.

Chris Beardmore and Senthil Dorai both are completing their Masters, again at the University of Queensland. Chris’s thesis is entitled “Water Management Improvement Analysis of Gold Processing Plants” and he is supervised by Prof Chris Moran. Senthil’s thesis is entitled “Newmont Energy System Analysis Project” and he is supervised by Dr Marcin Ziemski.

 

Publications

There have been a significant number of publications come through this month, which can be found below. Thank you to those who have sent copies through to ensure our publications list is kept as up to date as possible. If you have anything that has been published as part of CSRP (including conference presentations), could you please send Kelly Dwyer a copy of or the reference for the publication. A complete listing of publications can be found in the Publications section.

 

Conferences

• Greenhouse 2005: Action on Climate Change, Melbourne, Australia, 13th-17th November 2005
  Details are available at www.greenhouse2005.com
• Green Processing 2006, Newcastle, Australia, 5th-6th June 2006
  Details are available at www.ausimm.com

If you are aware of any upcoming conferences that would be of interest to other CSRP members, please e-mail the details to Kelly Dwyer. Links to these conferences (where available) will be published in the newsletter each month.

 

New Publications

It would be wonderful to keep our publications lists up to date. If you have anything that has been published as part of CSRP (including conference presentations), could you please send Kelly Dwyer a copy of or the reference for the publication? Listed below are publications received this month and a complete list can be found in the Publications section.

• CSRP (2005) “Commercialisation and Utilisation Plan 2005”, CSRP Report, June 2005
• Corder, G (2005) “Capturing Regional Synergies – The Gladstone Perspective”, Chemeca 2005, Brisbane, Australia, 25th-28th September 2005
• du Toit, AJ, Gaylard, P, Jahanshahi, S and Nell, J (2005) “Iron Redox-Equilibria and Sulphide Capacity of PGM Melter-Type Slags”, Minerals Engineering (in press), available online June 2005
• Hart, R, Wright, K, Golovaneskiy, V Gourley, T, O’Connor, B, van Riessen, A and Vance, ER (2005) “Geopolymer Concrete from Regional Waste Streams”, World Geopolymer Congress2005, Perth, Australia, 28th-29th September 2005
• Jahanashahi, S (2005) “Towards Zero Waste”, Chemeca 2005, Brisbane, Australia, 25th-28th September 2005
• Latella, BA, Perera, DS, Escott, TR and Cassidy, DJ “Adhesion of Glass to Steel using a Geopolymer”, J Mat. Sci. Let. (in press)
• Petrie, J (2005) “New Models of Sustainability for the Resources Sector – a Focus on Minerals and Metals”, World Congress in Chemical Engineering, Glasgow, Scotland, 10th-14th July 2005
• Perera, DS, Aly , Z, Vance, ER and Mizumo, M “Immobilisation of Pb in a Geopolymer Matrix”, J. Am Ceram Soc. (in press)
• Perera, DS and Trautman, RL “Geopolymers with the Potential for use as Refractory Castables”, Adv. in Mat. and Mat. Proc. J., Vol 7 (2005), 187-190 (in press)
• Perera, DS, Vance, ER, Uchida, O and Davis, J “Influence of Curing Schedule on the Integrity of Geopolymers,” J. Mat. Sci. (in press)
• Petrie, J, Cohen, B and Stewart, M (2005) “The Relevance of Reporting Indicators in Decision Making for Sustainable Development”, SDIMI, Aachen, Germany, May 2005
• Sumajouw, DMJ, Hardjito, M, Wallah, SE and Rangan, BV (2005) “Flexural Behaviour of Fly Ash-Based Geopolymer Concrete Beams”, Concrete 05, Melbourne, Australia, 16th-19th October 2005
• van Berkel, R (2005) “Eco-Efficiency – Stepping Stone to Sustainable Resource Processing”, Chemeca 2005, Brisbane, Australia, 25th-28th September 2005
• van Berkel, R (2005) “Industrial Symbiosis for Sustainable Resource Processing: the Cases of Kwinana and Gladstone (Australia)”, 6th Asia Pacific Roundtable on Sustainable Production and Consumption, Melbourne, Australia, 10th-12th October 2005
• van Berkel, R and Narayanaswamy, V (2005) “Eco-Efficiency for Design and Operation of Mineral Processing Plants”, Chemeca 2005, Brisbane, Australia, 25th-28th September 2005
• Wallah, SE, Hardjito, M, Sumajouw, DMJ and Rangan, BV (2005) “ Creep and Drying Shrinkage Behaviour of Fly Ash-Based Geopolymer Concrete”, Concrete 05, Melbourne, Australia, 16th-19th October 2005
• Wallah, SE, Hardjito, M, Sumajouw, DMJ and Rangan, BV (2005) “ Sulfate and Acid Resistance of Fly Ash-Based Geopolymer Concrete”, Australian Structural Engineering Conference, Newcastle, Australia, 11th-14th September 2005