CSRP Newsletter, April 2006
Welcome to the April 2006 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
Farewell and Welcome
Rachel Hope, the Executive Assistant at CSRP HQ has moved back home to New Zealand . We wish Rachel bon voyage and good luck for the future. Lisa Laurie, CSRP HQ's Admin Assistant, will be taking over from Rachel. Welcome Lisa.
3rd Year Review
The preparations for the 3 rd Year Review are now underway. The 3 rd Year Review consists of several different stages including an independent panel review and an industry survey. It commences in July and will be completed by December 2006
Student-Industry-CRC Symposium
The 2006 Student-Industry-CRC Symposium is being held from 18th-23rd June 2006 at the Central Queensland University (Marina Campus) in Gladstone. Registration forms, brochures and a draft program are now available.
New Students
We welcome 3 new students to CSRP in April. We have two new PhD students, Magid Ghiafeh Davoodi and Jitsangiam Peerapong, while Alan Jones has commenced his Masters. Magid’s thesis is entitled “Stability of concrete made from Red Sand and red mud in a marine environment” and is supervised by Hamid Nikraz at Curtin University . Jitsangiam’s thesis is entitled “Performance, Evaluation, and Enhancement of Red Sand for Road Bases, Embankments and Seawall fills” and Alan thesis is “Use of Red Sand for Stabilised landfill and cement manufacture”. Both Jitsangiam and Alan are supervised by Hamis Nikraz at Curtin University and Evan Jamieson at Alcoa World Alumina.
Conferences
- Green Processing 2006, Newcastle, Australia, 5th-6th June 2006
Details are available at www.ausimm.com
- Sustainable Development Conference 2006 "Operating for Enduring Value", Perth, Western Australia, 23rd-27th October 2006
- Water In Mining 2006 "Multiple Values of Water", Brisbane, Australia, 14th-16th November 2006
Call for papers information and other details are available at www.ausimm.com
- World Conference on Science and Technology Education, Perth, Australia, 8th-12th July 2007
Call for papers information and other details are available at www.worldste2007.asn.au
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 2006 Publications section.
- Corder, G (2006) “Developing Local Synergies in the Gladstone Industrial Area” Presentation to the Hazardous Waste Technical Group, Canberra , March 2006
- Du Toit, AJ, Gaylard, P, Jahanshahi, S, Nell, J (2006) “Iron Redox-Equlibria and Sulphide Capacity of PGM Melter-Type Slags” Minerals Engineering, 19, pp212-218
- Harris, S, Corder, G, van Beers, D, and van Berkel, R (2006) “Technology Needs Review for Regional Synergies” CSRP Report, March 2006
- Latella, BA, Perera, DS, E scott , TR and Cassidy, DJ “Adhesion of glass to steel using a geopolymer,” J Mat. Sci. Let. 1 November 2005 , published online, DOI: 10.1007/s10853.005-4234-3. Oct 19-20, 2005 , Morelia , Mexico . (Invited Plenary)
- Perera, DS, Vance, ER, Zhang, Y, Zhang, Z, Davis, J and Yee, P (2005) “Speciation studies of Fe, Mn, Ca and Ti and dissolution studies in a metakaolinite-based geopolymer with Si/Al ~ 2,” Proceedings World Congress Geopolymer 2005, Saint-Quentin, France (Ed. J. Davidovits), pp. 57-9.
- Quan, CH, and Ford, MA (2005) “Preliminary Investigation of Radioactivity Removal from Red Mud” ANSTO Report (C855), Dec 2005
- Quan, CH, and Ford, MA (2006) “Characterization and Adsorption Tests Using BF and BOS Slags” ANSTO Report (C850), Feb 2006
- Van Beers, D and van Berkel, R (2006) “ Suggestions for Further Development of Eco-Town project and Industrial Symbiosis Research in Kawasaki , Japan ” CSRP Report , March 2006
- Vance, ER, Perera, DS, Aly, Z, Blackford, M, Zhang, Y, Rowles, M, Hanna, JV, Pike, KJ, Davis, J, Yee, P and Uchida, O (2005) “Immobilisation of radioactive waste in geopolymers,” Proceedings from GLOBAL 2005 (International Conference on Nuclear Energy Systems for Future Generation and Global Sustainability) , Tsukuba, Japan, Oct 9-13, 2005, Proceedings CD-ROM–GL230,
- Vance, ER, Perera, DS, Aly, Z, Blackford, M, Zhang, Y, Rowles, M, Hanna, JV, Pike, KJ, Davis, J, and Uchida, O (2005) “Solid State Chemistry phenomena in Geopolymers with Si/Al ~ 2,” Proceedings of the GGC 2005 (International Workshop on Geopolymers and Geopolymer Concrete), September, 28-29, 2005, Perth, Australia. CD ROM, nGGC2005.pdf (Invited)
