Iron Ore

Dr Liming Lu is currently a Senior Principal Scientist leading CSIRO research and development in iron ore agglomeration and high temperature behaviour of resultant agglomerates during the blast furnace and other alternative ironmaking processes. Liming has more than 28 years R and D experience in the characterisation, processing and evaluation of iron ores, metallurgical coals and molten alloys. He has published 10 book chapters and more than 130 papers including 6 invited review. He is a Technical Expert of ISO Technical Committee TC102/SC3, which is reviewing and developing international standards for the physical testing of iron ore. Liming has served as a Key Reader for Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, a member of the Editorial Board for Ironmaking and Steelmaking and a member of the Advisory Board of ISIJ International. Liming was the recipient of Josef S Kapitan Award from American Iron and Steel Society in 2003 and Sawamura Award from the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan in 2018. He was appointed as an Adjunct Professor by Central South University, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Liaoning University of Science and Technology and Shanghai University in China.

1. Introduction: overview of the global iron ore industry 2. Mineralogical, chemical and physical characteristics of iron ore 3. XRD analysis and evaluation of raw and sintered iron ore 4. Automated optical image analysis of natural and sintered iron ore 5. Quantitative analysis of iron ore using SEM-based technologies 6. Characterization of iron ore by visible and infrared reflectance and Raman spectroscopie 7. Extraction techniques of iron ore 8. Comminution and classification technologies of iron ore 9. Physical separation of iron ore: magnetic separation 10. Nonmagnetic physical separation technologies of hematitic/geothitic iron ore including dry separation 11. Physiochemical separation of iron ore 12. Chemical separation of iron ore 13. Thermal beneficiation 14. Application of biotechnology in iron ore beneficiation 15. Iron ore sintering 16. Iron ore pelletization 17. Blast furnace iron making 18. Alternative ironmaking processes 19. Sintering emissions and their mitigation technologie 20. Utilization of biomass as an alternative fuel in ironmaking 21. Life cycle assessment of iron ore mining and processing 22. Sustainable mining 23. Ironmaking in japan - technologies for low grade raw materials, low carbon and environmental solution 24. Low Carbon iron making technologies - an European approach 25. Applications and challenges of biomass materials in iron and steel industry