August 2009

 

The Nickel and Cobalt 2009 Conference of the Metallurgical Society of Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) was held August 23 to 26, 2009 in Sudbury.  At the conference, Ilya Perederiy presented a talk entitled "Pressure Oxidative Leaching of Slags from Nickel Smelters: An Update" and Ramanpal Saini gave a presentation entitled "On-Line Acid Measurements Via Electrodeless Conductivity in HPAL Processes for Nickel/Cobalt Extraction." Also, two members of the APEC group received awards for their hard work.

 

Ghazal Azimi received the 2009 Gordon M. Ritcey Award. This award recognizes graduate students in the field of Hydrometallurgy for outstanding performance and is accompanied with a $3,000 cash prize.

Kevin McLean was awarded the Best Poster Award in the Graduate Student category. The poster entitled "Application of Molten Salt Hydrates to Laterite Nickel Ore Leaching and HCl Recovery" was co-authored by Jan de Bakker, a PhD student from Queen's University.

 

Click here for pictures from the conference.

 

May 2009

 

Georgiana Moldoveanu joined the APEC group as a Post-Doc.

 

September, 2008

 

Congratulations to Matthew Jones, who has successfully defended his Master's thesis.

 

Kevin McLean joined the APEC group as a Master's student.

 

August, 2008

 

Congratulations to Ghazal Azimi on getting an OGS scholarship.

 

July 2008

 

BBQ at the Professor's house.  Click here for pictures.

 

May, 2008

 

Congratulations to Ghazal Azimi on winning a Teaching Excellence Award.

 

September, 2007

 

Sammy Peters and Ramanpal Saini (Canada) joined the APEC group as Master's students.

 

April, 2007

 

Congratulations to Dr. Ming Huang (AECL) on the successful defense of his PhD thesis.

 

March, 2007

 

Congratulations to Professor Papangelakis, who became the first recipient of the Professor Diran Basmadjian Teacher of the Year award.

 

October - November, 2006

 

Five member of APEC group including their professor set foot on Montreal streets to attend a conference on Iron Control in Hydrometallurgy which was held at "Le Centre Sheraton"... [click for details]

 

 

September, 2006

 

Matthew Jones (Canada) joined APEC group as a Master's student.

 

 

June, 2006

 

Two students from Eng-Sci (Brian Skinner and Lawrence Byerley) joined our group for the summer.

 

 

September, 2005

 

The group has received three new graduate students: Ilya Perederiy (Russia), Sam Roshdi (Iran), Ghazal Azimi (Iran).

 

Ghursaran Singh (now with Bantrel) and Mike Reid (now with CVRD-INCO) obtained their Master's degrees and left the group

 

 

October, 2004

 

Professor Papangelakis chaired the "Pressure Hydrometallurgy - 2004" conference and recieved the Sherritt Award. Several students attended the conference... [click for details]

 

 

August, 2004

 

Olypmic games In Situ. Professor V. G. Papangelakis served as a volunteer at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games... [click for details]