My research interests are in the kinetics and thermodynamics of high temperature materials processing.
Articles
Techniques in the study of carbon transfer in ironmaking (with Raymond J. Longbottom, Michael Chapman, Sharon A. Nightingale, John G. Mathieson, and Robert Nightingale), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2011)
In this paper two new approaches to the study of carburisation/decarburisation of iron are detailed....
Carbon Transfer in the Lower Zone of a Blast Furnace (with Sharon A. Nightingale and Michael Chapman), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2010)
In this paper results from an investigation focused on coke/iron reactions occurring in the hearth...
Influence of shielding gas on fume formation rate and particle size distribution for optimised GMAW (with Kristin R. Carpenter, Alexander D. Nicholson, Dominic Cuiuri, and John Norrish), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2010)
Liquid iron wetting of calcium aluminates (with Michael Chapman and Sharon A. Nightingale), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2010)
An investigation has been carried out to assess the wetting behaviour of liquid iron carbon...
The effect of voltage and metal-transfer mode on particulate fume size during the GMAW of plain carbon steel (with Zoran Sterjovski and John Norrish), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2010)
Particulate-welding fumes can enter unciliated airways, or may even be absorbed through the skin, possibly...
Presentations
Flow of liquid slag through coke channels (with Hazem F. Labib, Raymond Longbottom, S J. Chew, and Peter R. Austin), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2011)
The blast furnace is the primary liquid iron production unit for the majority of the...
Kinetcis of silicothermic reduction of clacined dolomite in flowing argon atmosphere (with Winny Wulandari, Geoff Brooks, and Akbar Rhamdhani), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2010)
The Pidgeon process is currently the dominant silicothermic process route to produce magnesium. Calcined dolomite...
Magnesium: current and alternative production routes (with Winny Wulandari, Geoffrey Brooks, and Muhammad Rhamdhani), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2010)
Magnesium is a light metal that has numerous applications such as for structural material, metallurgical...
Some comments on the study of metallurgical coke and its use in the iron blast furnace: understanding process fundamentals through laboratory studies (with Michael Chapman, Sharon A. Nightingale, John G. Mathieson, and Robert Nightingale), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2010)
Much of the recent experimental work carried out at by the PYROmetallurgical group at the...
Distribution of impurities in magnesium via silicothermic reduction (with Winny Wulandari, Akbar Rhamdhani, and Geoff Brooks), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2009)
The desire for light weight materials, particularly in the automotive field, is fuelling greater magnesium...