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.
		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.
		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.
		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.
		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.
		C	Tale of Two Tails	Keating, J., Garlick, C. and Robbins, M.
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.
		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.
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.
		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.
		D	A review of current dry coal beneficiation techniques	Hughes, N., Le Roux, M. and Campbell, Q. P.
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.

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.

Program

Schedule

Friday 12 March

Wednesday 17 March

Friday 19 March

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