Program
Another technically advanced conference program is in full planning for the 18th ACPS Conference.
Please see below for the final conference schedule
Brisbane (AEST) | 12th March, 2021 | ||||
Start | Finish | Session | Title | Authors | Session Chair |
7:00 | 8:00 | Registration | |||
8:00 | 8:15 | Opening | ACPS LOC Chairman | ||
8:15 | 8:30 | Welcome | ACPS National Chairman | ||
8:30 | 10:30 | 1 | Dense Medium Separation | Chris Wood | |
A | Design and commissioning of the Sonoma CPP upgrade |
Hoffmann, D., Morgan, K. and Usher, L. |
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B | Lifting the bar on sustaining DMC efficiency |
Dimech, L. | |||
C | Development of a DMC IIoT Condition Monitoring System |
Nethercott, C., Doudkin, S., Hitchcock, L. and Winnel, M. |
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D | Improving Dense Medium Cyclone Stability with the addition of Non-Magnetic Material to the correct medium |
O’Brien, M. | |||
10:30 | 11:00 | Morning Tea | |||
11:00 | 12:30 | 2 | Dewatering 1 | Dale Hoffmann | |
A | Goonyella CHPP disc filter upgrade – design, construction and commissioning |
Lees, G. and Vedelago, R. | |||
B | A comparison of Dewatering Technologies for fine coal tailings |
Meiring, S. | |||
C | Filter Revamping, the economic way to get old filters back on track |
Hahn, J. and Elsmore, A. | |||
12:30 | 13:00 | Lunch | |||
13:00 | 15:00 | 3 | Fines Processing | ||
A | Analysis of the Objectives and Efficiency of Fine Coal Classification Circuits |
Clarkson, C. and Hoffmann, D. | Chris Clarkson | ||
B | Preliminary Investigation of the Precision of Tree Flotation Test |
Edward, D., Mariano, R.A., Voyzey, F. and Goffinet, M. |
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C | Optical ash meter fines circuit optimisation applications |
Sherritt, G., Bennetts, Z. and Meyers, A.D. | |||
D | CHPP performance improvement case studies at Moatize |
Nkolele, T. | |||
15:00 | 15:30 | Afternoon Tea | |||
15:30 | 16:30 | P1 | Poster Papers 1 | Glen Sherritt | |
P1A | Improved Precision of Determining Coal in Urban Dust |
O’Brien, G., Koval, S., Campbell, M., Stanning, N., Warren, K. and Campbell, J. |
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P1B | Lab froth flotation evaluation | McMahon,C. | |||
P1C | Advanced automation for centralised stockyard operations |
Bozward, A. and Rietschel, F. | |||
P1D | Using high performance frother for air flow rate optimisation in coal flotation |
Dort, S., Soars, L, Dickie, S., Lambert, N. and Czerwiec, B. | |||
Virtual Only (AEDT) | 17th March, 2021 | ||||
Start | Finish | Session | Title | Authors | Session Chair |
10:00 | 11:00 | 4 | A Le Page Lecture | Andrew Swanson | |
(Mis)Adventures in fine coal processing from a US perspective |
Arnold, B. J. | ||||
Crowne Plaza Hunter Valley (AEDT) |
19th March, 2021 | ||||
Start | Finish | Session | Title | Authors | Session Chair |
7:30 | 8:30 | Registration | |||
8:30 | 10:00 | 5 | New Plants and Upgrades | Darren Mathewson | |
A | Mount Pleasant Operations CHPP – Start-up |
Wilson, T. and Kropp, M. | |||
B | Ravensworth CHPP Upgrade: Design, commissioning and optimisation of ultra-fine coal recovery |
Chamberlain, T., Mujic, D. and Flanagan, R. |
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C | Tale of Two Tails | Keating, J., Garlick, C. and Robbins, M. |
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10:00 | 10:30 | Morning Tea | |||
10:30 | 12:00 | 6 | Efficiency and Optimisation | Ben Narbutas | |
A | Optimise for impact: Meeting higher output goals with low cost upgrades |
Anstess, B. and Knowles, C. | |||
B | Improved Fine Coal Classification |
Swanson, M., O’Brien, M. and Swanson, A. |
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C | Modelling Coal Flotation at a Fundamental Level |
Atkinson, B. and Evans, C. | |||
12:00 | 12:30 | Lunch | |||
12:30 | 14:00 | 7 | Dewatering 2 | Bruce Atkinson | |
A | Back To Basics of Tailings Operation |
Walker, P. | |||
B | Characterisation of Pressure (Hyperbaric) Filtration Performance |
Narbutas, B. And Drummond, B. | |||
C | Examining the moisture of clean flotation products from fine coal tailings |
Borrow, D. J., Dickinson, J. E., Cole, M.J., Sahasrabudhe, G. and Galvin, K. P. |
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14:00 | 14:30 | Afternoon Tea | |||
14:30 | 16:30 | 8 | General | Matthew Swanson | |
A | New Coal Preparation Australian Standards Sampling Handbook and Density Tracer Tests |
Mathewson, D., Wood, C., Atkinson, B. and Docherty, J. |
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B | How insights from digital data can increase yields across the coal chain |
Morshedi, R., Blake, S. and Allsopp, B. | |||
C | Telligent dry separator: a high-efficient dry sorter for coal, and its prospects in Australia context |
Bai, C. Z., Xu, X.D., Zhao, C. X., Yuan, X.M, Zong, B. and Song, Z.B. |
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D | A review of current dry coal beneficiation techniques |
Hughes, N., Le Roux, M. and Campbell, Q. P. |
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16:30 | 17:00 | P2 | Poster Papers 2 | Neil Gibbs | |
P2A | How advanced slurry wear analysis is driving cost reductions in coal slurry pumping |
Goodwin, J. | |||
P2B | Tailings management: an overview and technology implementation of high-pressure filtration |
Sommacal, E. and Vieira, M. |
Schedule
Friday 12 March
Technical Sessions
QLD Conference Dinner
Wednesday 17 March
Arthur Le Page Lecture
Friday 19 March
Technical Sessions
NSW Dinner
ARTHUR LE PAGE LECTURE
Barbara J. Arnold
For her R&D contributions and accomplishments in all facets of coal processing, particularly froth flotation, computer simulation, flowsheet development, and plant evaluation.

Barbara J. Arnold received her B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mineral processing from The Pennsylvania State University. She specialized in coal froth flotation, fine particle processing and coal petrology. Her research and development experience has included projects for government and industry-funding agencies as well as for private companies. Her research has covered the development of a coal cleaning simulator, coal handling, coal blending, coal-cleaning characterizations and flowsheet evaluations. Her project management experience includes the development and management of project budgets, project schedules, oversight of project personnel and reporting functions.
Arnold is a registered professional engineer and president of PrepTech Inc. in Apollo, PA. Her company offers engineering services to coal companies in the form of balanced flowsheets for preparation plants, bid specification packages, and preparation plant evaluations. In addition, PrepTech is the U.S. representative for Multotec Process Equipment and PrepQuip from South Africa and also represents CLI Corp.’s ClimaxX magnetic separator.
Arnold is the author of more than 50 publications and many technical reports. She was the 2003 chair of the Coal & Energy Division, and has served on many of its committees. She has also been a member of Mineral & Metallurgical Processing Division committees. She received the J. W. Woomer Young Engineer Award from the Coal Division in 1992. In addition, she received the Henry DeWitt Smith Trust of AIME scholarship for graduate studies in mineral engineering for 1985-86. She serves on the editorial boards of Mining Engineering, Coal Preparation and the International Journal of Mineral Processing.


Creating a vision for the future
18th ACPS Conference Coal Rush 2021
12th, 17th & 19th March