2014 - Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit & Exhibition

	29 June - 04 July 2014, Fiesta Americana Condesa Cancun All Inclusive Resort, Cancun, Mexico

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1^st International Symposium on Sustainable Mining and Processing
The Mining Industry engages in the exploration, discovery, development, production, distribution and recycling of materials from the ground to support and foster a modern civil society worldwide. The opportunities to contribute to and thrive as a global mining enterprise must be earned through a demonstrated commitment to Sustainable Development. In the context of mining, this means engaging with national, regional, and local peoples with respect to those issues that create a sustainable society and economy with extreme care and attention paid to protection of the environment. This includes searching for new technologies that address sustainable practices.The Symposium will consist of papers, posters, panel discussions and presentations on the following topics:
- Technical Aspects of Sustainability in Mining
  - Energy Efficiency in Mining
  - Mine Automation (safety, productivity, and environmental protection)
  - Open Pit versus Underground
  - Tailings Storage Facilities and Methods
  - Phyto-reclamation and phyto-mining
  - Integration of Mining and Processing Operations
  - Production, Uses, and Recycling of Metals and Minerals
  - Continuous Improvement (new technologies, innovations, and best practices)
- Environmental Aspects of Sustainable Mining
  - Small-scale and Artisanal Mining
  - Dealing with Legacy Mine Sites (orphaned and abandoned)
  - Environmental Monitoring and Pollution Mitigation
  - Acid Rock Drainage and Metal-Leaching
  - Biodiversity and Ecosystems
  - Transportation of Mined Products
  - Dust Control and Mitigation
- Socio-Political Issues in Sustainable Mining
  - Regulating Mining in the Third World
  - Environmental Assessment and Permitting
  - Social-Licence-to-Mine (involvement of communities)
  - Cultural Context of Honesty, Transparency, and Integrity
  - Working with Aboriginal peoples
  - Climate Change and Mining
  - Mine Closure and Post-closure
  - Enterprise Facilitation (new businesses to sustain the community)
1^st International Symposium on Sustainable Mineral Processing
Aqueous and Low Temperature Processing
1. Principles:
  - Experimental techniques: Existing and new developments
  - Reaction kinetics, thermodynamics, minor element behavior
  - Chemical and transport properties
  - Thermo and Physicochemical properties
  - Process modeling and simulation (computational fluid dynamic modeling, etc.)
  - Fundamentals on Solvent extraction, flotation and leaching, etc.
2. Technologies:
  - New, Improved and Existing Technologies
  - Solvent extraction, flotation and leaching: Technologies and equipments
  - Waste processing and water treatment plants
  - Environmental issues
  - Value addition and advance materials
  - Recycling, waste treatment, soil remediation and biotechnologies
  - Chemical and metallurgical process reactors
  - Control operations and new designs
3. Industrial Practice:
  - Feed morphology/composition
  - Plant and reactor operations
  - Solvent extraction, flotation and leaching: Industrial Practice
  - Process Control, Optimization & Automation
Electrochemical Processing
1. Principles
  - Experimental techniques: Existing and new developments
  - Reaction kinetics, thermodynamics, minor element behavior
  - Chemical and transport properties
  - Thermo and Physicochemical properties
  - Solvent extraction, Mineral processing and leaching
  - Process modeling and simulation (computational fluid dynamic modeling, etc.)
  - Chemical and metallurgical process reactors: Control operations and new designs
2. Technologies:
  - New and improved refractory technologies on extraction and processing
  - Environmentally undesirable minor components in product and waste streams
  - Waste processing and water treatment plants
  - Recycling, waste treatment, soil remediation and biotechnologies
  - Value addition and advance materials
3. Industrial Practice:
  - Plant and reactor operations
  - Feed preparation, morphologies/composition
  - Products quality and cleanness
  - Process Control, Optimization & Automation
  - Environmental issues
2^nd International Symposium on Sustainable Non-ferrous Smelting in 21st Century
1. Principles:
  - Experimental techniques: existing and new developments
  - Reaction kinetics, thermodynamics, minor element behavior
  - Chemical and transport properties of slags, mattes, metals, fluxes, gases, etc.
  - Fluid-Solid Reactions
  - Flash/Bath Sulfide and Laterite Smelting
  - Roasting, smelting, converting and refining processes and equipments
  - Process modeling and simulation (computational fluid dynamic modeling, etc.)
  - Thermo and Physicochemical Properties
  - Refractory materials, degradation, control and optimization
2. Technologies:
  - New, Improved and Existing Technologies
  - Direct producing of metals
  - Extraction and Processing
  - Chemical and metallurgical process reactors
  - Furnace designs and refractory
  - Control operations and new designs
  - Alternative ways of producing metals from sulfide and laterite concentrates
  - Control and optimization
  - Recycling, waste treatment, soil remediation and biotechnologies
3. Industrial Practice:
  - Plant and furnace operations
  - Process parameters in smelting and refining furnaces
  - Electrical furnaces
  - Production of metals from sulfide or laterite concentrates
  - Feed preparation processes, equipments
  - Smelter gas handling and acid plants processes and equipments
  - Smelter dusts and fugitive emissions
  - Environmental issues and policies related to sulfide smelting
  - New smelter and expansion/capital projects
  - Predicted future of sulfide smelting operations
  - Process control, optimization and automation
2^nd International Symposium on Advanced Sustainable Iron and Steel Making
1. Principles:
  - Experimental techniques: existing and new developments
  - Reaction kinetics, thermodynamics, minor element behavior
  - Chemical and transport properties of slags, metals, fluxes, gases, etc.
  - Process modeling and simulation (computational fluid dynamic modeling, etc.)
  - Refractory materials, degradation, control and optimization
  - Recycling, waste treatment, soil remediation and biotechnologies
2. Technologies:
  - New, Improved and Existing Technologies
  - Raw Materials Processing: Coke, Coal, Comminution, Magnetic Separation, Froth Flotation
  - Ironmaking: Blast Furnace, Charcoal Blast Fuirnace, Direct Reduction, Direct Smelting
  - Steelmaking: Basic Oxygen Furnaces, Electric Arc Furnaces, Contaminant Removal
  - Environmental: Carbon Dioxide, Sulfur Oxides, Nitrogen Oxides, Mercury,Volatile Organics
  - Chemical and metallurgical process reactors
  - Control operations and new designs
  - Products quality and cleanness (metals, steels, etc.)
3. Industrial Practice:
  - Plant and furnace operations
  - Process parameters in iron and steel making reactors
  - Feed preparation processes, equipments
  - Gas handling processes and equipments
  - Dusts and fugitive emissions
  - New minimills and expansion/capital projects
  - Predicted future of iron and steel operations
  - Process control, optimization and automation
  - Integrated production vs. minimill production
2^nd International Symposium on Sustainable Materials Recycling Processes and Products
Recycling: Principles, technologies and Industrial Practice:
- Ferrous and non-ferrous alloys
- Light and heavy metals
- Noble and rare earth elements
- Polymeric materials
- Melting, casting and other forms of material processing
- Recycled raw material for further refining and new products
- Advanced principles of chemistry and physics
- Practical chemical and physical metallurgy, and materials processes
- Regulatory rules, policies, and guidance on materials recycling
- Environmental protection materials recycling
- Impact of materials recycling on the environment, industry, and economy
- Silicon Production, Refining & Recycling for Photovoltaic Cells
  1. Production: Carbothermic, Siemens, fluidized bed , electrochemical, fractional crystallization, other emerging methods
  2. Refining & Purification: Electrolytic, solidification, filtration, slags; plasma, vacuum leaching or other innovative techniques
  3. Recycling: Methods to recycle ingot top-cuts, kerf loss silicon, silicon cells Ag, glass, aluminum frames, solder interconnects, Pb-free solders, alternative thin film materials
2^nd International Symposium on Quasi-crystals, Metallic Alloys, Composites, Ceramics and Nano Materials
- Quasi-periodic materials (Quasi-crystals).
- Magnesium alloys and their processing;
- Biodegradable materials for implants; Biodegradable magnesium, etc.
- Novel metallic alloy production
- Microstructure of metallic alloys
- Deformation mechanisms in metallic alloys
- Fracture, Friction and Wear
- Intermetallic compounds and their deformation mechanisms;
- Ductile intermetallic compounds; B 2 Intermetallics
- Complex metallic alloys
- Mechanical properties of materials, Fatigue etc.
- Titanium aluminides and other useful intermetallic compounds
- Properties and production of CVD diamonds
- Current capabilities of transmission electron microscopy (TEM).
- Diffusion and Diffusion Coating,
- Metallography,
- Rapid Solidification ,
- Multilayer and Multilayered Structure,
- Metal- and, ceramic- matrix composites
- Oxide and non-oxide ceramics
- Bio-ceramics and composites
- Synthetic, recycling/waste, and natural materials
- Processing with ex-situ and in-situ formed phases
- Mechanical milling and activation
- Sintering related issues
- Investigations involving continuous and short fibers, whiskers and particle reinforcements
- Sandwich structure and functionally graded materials
- Solid-, semisolid- and liquid-state processing routes
- Macro, micro, and nano length-scale reinforcements
- Thermal, mechanical behavior (elastic modulus, modulus of rupture (MOR), KIC), and fracture surface
- Novel processing and characterization techniques
- Sol-gel, gas processing and deposition routes (PVD, CVD, CVI, etc.)
- Ceramics for structural and functional (electrical, dielectric, optical, magnetic applications)
- Corrosion behavior of composites and refractory materials
- Titanium Melting, Casting and refining practices
- Titanium Powder processing and handling
- Titanium deformation processing
- Titanium alloy development, and microstructure and property enhancement through secondary processing
1^st International Symposium on Sustainable Cement Production
Technologies and equipments for energy-saving and emission-reduction

Nanotechnologies in cement and concrete production

Waste re-use, encapsulation and processing using cement

Sustainability issues.

Chemistry and process of cement
- Hydration reaction
- Physical evolution and microstructure
- Composition design with SCM
- Modeling and simulation
- Preparation and chemistry of Non-Portland cement
Low-energy manufacture and chemistry of clinker
- Chemistry of clinker formation
- Emission control
- Performance optimization
- AFR use
- Special types of clinker
Testing technology and standardization
- Nontraditional testing methods
- Exhaust monitoring and evaluation
- Cement and concrete standards
Efficient utilization in concrete
- Mineral and chemical admixtures
- Resistance to aggressive environment
- Physical characteristics and microstructure
- Cement hydration
- Alternative binders,
- Service life and durability
3^rd International Symposium on Environmental, Health, Policy, Legal, Management and Social Issues Related to Metals, Materials and Mineral Processing
1. Environmental/Health, Energy and Policy Issues
  - The most up-to-date environmental policies in various part of the world
  - The most up-to-date energy policies in various parts of the world
  - Current and future plans to reduce CO2 emissions in metals and mineral processing industries
  - Measures to protect environment and the health of population related to heavy processing industries
  - Current environmental problems and health issues related to metals and mineral processing industries
2. Legal, Management, Economical and Social Issues
  - The impacts of the current situation on basic metals prices
  - Effect of globalization and economic crisis on the production rates of minerals, metals and material
  - Merging and/or buyout of industrial companies in countries with various legal and political systems
  - Social and economical impact of metals processing industries during booming and crisis periods
  - Effective management of integrated smelting complexes
  - Effective managements of mineral, metals and materials resources
  - Price fluctuation in raw materials, coke, scrap and metals
  - Patents
  - Copyrights
  - Intellectual Properties, contracts, confidentiality and litigation
  - Technology transfer legal and management issues
  - Labor Law in mining, mineral and metals processing industries
1^st International Symposium on Rare Earth and Platinum Group Metals:Managing and Processing
The symposium will equally tackle the sustainable management and sustainable extraction and processing. It will cover Rare Earth Elements, Lithium and Platinum Group Metals as well as Minor Metals such as antimony, bismuth, barium, beryllium, boron, calcium, chromium, gallium, germanium, hafnium, indium, manganese, molybdenum, platinum group metals, rare earth metals, rhenium, scandium, selenium, sodium, strontium, tantalum, tellurium, tungsten, etc. The availability of these metals tremendously affects numerous industries such as electronics, aerospace, military, automotive, clean tech and renewable energy technologies, which rely heavily on them and often have no other options to substitute them.
The topics include but are not limited to:
- Managing Supply Chain Risks for Critical & Strategic Metals
- Mitigation practices and innovative strategies
- Costs of extraction, processing options, route to market
- End-user Procuring and maintaining the supply in operations
- Extraction techniques (pyrometallurgy, hydrometallurgy, electrometallurgy)
- Recycling techniques (electronic scraps, EAF dusts, less common waste streams, etc)
- Processing techniques (microwave heating, solar-thermal reaction synthesis, cold crucible synthesis).
- Equipments Design and commissioning
- Laboratory and pilot plant studies
1^st International Symposium on Sustainable Production of Ferro-alloys

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2^nd International Symposium on Sustainable Molten Salt and Ionic Liquid Processing
Molten salts and ionic liquids are both Coulombic fluids that consist of ions only, but they are typically applied in different temperature ranges. Both types of fluid are of a large academic and industrial interest and employ the same principles, so there is a lot of scope for the exchange of information between the two communities. In fact this was also the rationale why the traditional EUCHEM Conferences on Molten Salts, held across Europe since 1966, were finally renamed to EUCHEM Conferences on Molten Salts and Ionic Liquids in 2006.
Essential for an in-depth understanding of Coulombic fluids are aspects such as structure, thermodynamics, transport, electrochemistry, interface properties and modelling. Experimental and theoretical methods as well as techniques for data collection and analysis are constantly being developed and improved, aiming to advance the manifold technological applications of these materials.
This distinctively incorporated symposium will cover, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- Synthesis, characterisation and analysis
- Thermodynamics and transport
- Spectroscopy and structure
- Surfaces and interfaces
- Corrosion and electrodeposition
- Theoretical and computational studies
- Chemical and electrochemical syntheses
- Fuel cells
- Solar energy
- Nuclear energy
- Molten salts and ionic liquids in industry
- Data in the electronic age
1^st International Symposium on Sustainable Secondary Battery Manufacturing and Recycling
Secondary batteries mainly based on lithium and lead will continue the march towards radical alteration spurred by demand of high energy and power densities for automotive, electronic, back-up and renewable energy storage applications. For even greater market penetration, the costs of the batteries have to come down, performance and reliability will have to be improved, safety issues need to be tackled and sustainability must be ensured.

Current research on electrodes for Li ion batteries is focused on new materials and composites that can help enhance energy densities and cycle life to new levels. Lithium batteries including new chemistries (Li-S e.g.) are being extensively researched for developing the technology of choice for the next generation of Electric Vehicles - Hybrid, Plug in Hybrid and Battery EVs. Lead batteries have made a massive capacity expansion for applications in e-scooters and are currently growing in the automotive applications for the idle, stop & go Mild-HEV applications using the advanced VRLA technology.

In this special symposium, there will be the opportunity to consider the full spectrum of sustainable secondary batteries from development to manufacturing and recycling. Special emphasis on new materials, new designs, new chemistries, and new methods of manufacturing along with enhanced sustainability of batteries will be particularly welcome.

This unique symposium will cover, but not limited to, the following topics:
- New developments in Li-ion, Li-S and lead-acid batteries
- Development of new cathodes and anodes for batteries
- Organic liquid electrolytes, gel & polymer electrolytes, ionic liquids and inorganic electrolytes for batteries
- Fabrication and manufacturing of batteries
- Application of batteries in HEVs
- Future battery systems (Li-air, molten salt and redox batteries)
- Sustainability of batteries, including recycling and recovery of active materials
International Symposium on sustainable base-metal bio-extraction
The "International Symposium on sustainable base-metal bio-extraction" will be a forum for presentation and discussion of scientific and technological advances in bio-hydrometallurgy. It will be an opportunity for researchers, students and professionals, who work in extractive metallurgy, to updating about the various forms of biotechnology applications, as well as find new forms of collaboration and partnerships.
The bio-hydrometallurgy is an area that has been reaching ever more space in the metallurgical sector. The use of microorganisms for extracting metals has been shown to be an attractive alternative before the scarcity of reserves that have high metal contents. From biotechnological routes it is possible to include, in a production line, technologies that enable the extraction of metals under more competitive costs when compared to conventional processing that require prior ore beneficiation.
Considering the abovementioned, it is suggested below, some themes of coverage in the area of bio-hydrometallurgy for professionals who are dealing with such theme and will contribute a great deal with their technical papers.
- Fundamental aspects of bio-hydrometallurgy;
- Industrial bio-hydrometallurgy (studies, practical aspects and operation);
- Bio-extraction of nutrients out of agro-minerals;
- Microbial ecology and bio-prospecting in natural environments and mining;
- Molecular Genetics and biochemistry of microorganisms used in biohydrometallurgical processes;
- Biohydrometallurgy as a strategy for remediating contaminated sites;
- Bio-extraction of phosphorus out of iron ores;
- Bio-assisted Comminution of primary and secondary ores;
- Bio-dessulphurization of mineral coal;
- Bio-extraction of metals from electro-electronic scraps.
1^st International Symposium on Synthesis and Properties of Nanomaterials for Future Energy Demands
The development of the future energy conversion and storage technologies requires understanding the mechanisms of energy transfer at the nanometer scale and the capacity to tailor the materials structure and composition at the same level. This symposium will focus on the synthesis, processing, characterization, and modeling of nanostructured materials and their potential use in energy conversion and storage devices and systems. Successful design of nanoscale materials, -nanoparticles, nanowires and nanotubes, and related alternative nanostructured materials- could lead to a wide range of novel devices and technologies useful and essential for the new generation of alternative energy devices. Below are some themes for it.
- Preparation of nanostructures and nanostructured materials for energy applications: e.g. nanowires, nanoparticles, nanocomposites, mesoporous structures
- Structural, morphological and functional characterization of nanomaterials for energy applications
- Photonic, electronic, ionic, phononic and chemical transitions, transfer and transport at the nanoscale
- Photocatalytic nanomaterials for solar fuels
- Nanomaterials and nanocomposites for thermoelectric applications
- Nanomaterials for Electric energy issues and applications ;
- Nanomaterials and devices for clean energy and energy conservation.
1^st International Symposium on Sustainable Energy Production: Gas/Oil/Shale and new renewable carbon free technologies
Sustainable forms of energy today are a vital focus and the entire society. The big picture involves the energy production with classical fossil fuels that fulfill at present the energy demands and renewable energies are being developed and applied. This symposium will cover both sides of the medal.
- Current means of energy production i.e. Gas, Oil and Shale which are widely considered polluted forms of energy production. A deep and wide analysis and discussion will be undertaken of on how these industries are coping with the reality of climate change and carbon emissions by decreasing carbon foot print, improving the efficiency and productivity of the current Gas, Oil and Shale energy production technologies in order to make them more sustainable.
- Current efforts to deposit or utilize CO2 in the benefit of the society and eliminate carbon foot print
- Developing new carbon free and renewable energy technologies
The symposium will also cover but will not be limited to efficient and sustainable efforts in existing technologies that provide the bulk of energy today
- advanced drilling technologies (Evaluation, Equipments, Applications, Construction, Completion)
- shale gas, coal bed methane and hydrocarbon production
- new approaches to improved cracker flexibility;
- Operation, optimization and control in petrochemical plants
- Improving safety and efficiency of current plants (Detection of wear and fault prevention in gear boxes by monitoring the quality of oil: warning before failure occurs; wear optimizing; oil aging, degradation of additives, load optimizing)
Composite, Ceramic and Nano Materials Processing, Characterization and Applications Symposium

The aim of this symposium is to provide a forum for the discussion and dissemination of recent developments in the processing, characterization and properties of composites, ceramics and nano materials. Accordingly, contributions that include but are not limited to the following areas are invited: metal- and, ceramic- matrix composites; oxide and non-oxide ceramics; bio- ceramics and composites; synthetic, recycling/waste, and natural materials; processing with ex-situ and in-situ formed phases; mechanical milling and activation; sintering related issues; investigations involving continuous and short fibers, whiskers and particle reinforcements; sandwich structure and functionally graded materials; solid-, semisolid- and liquid-state processing routes; macro, micro, and nano length-scale reinforcements and functionality phases; thermal, mechanical behavior (elastic modulus, modulus of rupture (MOR), KIC), and fracture surface analysis; novel processing and characterization techniques, sol-gel, gas processing and deposition routes (PVD, CVD, CVI, etc.); ceramics for structural and functional (electrical, dielectric, optical, magnetic applications); corrosion behavior of composites and refractory materials.
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