| Alumina
Market Leader: Dr Chris Vernon |
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CSIRO
Minerals PO Box 7229 Karawara, WA 6152 Australia Ph: (08) 9334 8043 Fax: (08) 9334 8001 E-mail: Chris.Vernon@csiro.au |
| Positions: | Alumina
Market Leader for the Parker Centre's Alumina
Market research CSIRO Minerals' Theme Leader - Alumina |
| Brief Career History: | Dr
Chris Vernon studied at the University of Western Australia, completing
a Bachelor of Science with a double chemistry major in 1982 and a
PhD in physical chemistry in 1988. He then worked for four years with
CSIRO Minerals using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to solve surface
chemistry problems in the gold and mineral sands iindustries. He joined Alcoa World Alumina's Research and Development Department at Kwinana in 1992, where he worked for five years on a variety of precipitation, product quality and modelling projects. Since re-joining CSIRO Minerals in 1997, he has led projects in the precipitation chemistry and impurity control areas. Dr Vernon was the project leader of the collaborative three-year AMIRA P380B "Fundamentals of Gibbsite Precipitation" project which was completed in 1999, and of the collaborative three-year AMIRA P625 "Incorporation of Impurities into Gibbsite" project (2000-2003). He was project leader of the Parker Centre's "Precipitation Chemistry Fundamentals" project which ran from 1999-2005. He was also the project leader of the "Organics Mitigation" project (1999-2002). He was appointed as the Parker Centre's Alumina Market Leader in February 2006. He is also currently the project leader of the Centre's "Impurity Issues" project. |
| Research Interests: | Dr
Vernon has expertise in precipitation during the Bayer process, the
effect of organic impurities on precipitation and product quality
in the Bayer process. His current research interests include chemistry
and deportment of impurity species, interfacial chemistry at elevated
pH, organic reaction chemistry, effects of tailored additives on process
operation, modelling of crystallisation processes and instrumentation
for process control. |
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