Jan Cilliers

Research Interests

• Research interests in minerals processing, in particular froth flotation.
• Focus on measuring and manipulating the froth structure to optimise the separation achieved.
• Develop new techniques for measuring froth properties and particle motion in froths
• Modelling of froth based on physical models for process design

• Interests in mineral economics and the interaction between mineral processing and metal extraction.

• Flotation froth structure

• Froth stability measures

• Froth models, including particle motion

• Particle tracking in pulp and froth using PEPT (example of particle tracking - please be aware that this is a huge video file ~20MB)

• Design of flotation vessels and flowsheets

• Economics of metal recovery and waste disposal

• Financial metal hedging

Recent Measures of Esteem

• Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, 2010 (Imperial College News)
• Director: Rio Tinto Centre for Advanced Mineral Recovery.
• Plenary address: IFACMMM 2010
• Plenary Address: Procemin 2009 (Presentation)
• Inaugural Lecture Imperial College February 2008 (presentation). Note: This is a very large file (~16MB).
• 2005-10 Rio Tinto Professor with funding of two staff and further £6 million of associated industrial research support
• 2006 Keynote speaker, CFD 2006, Melbourne
• 2007 Keynote speaker, China Forum on Mineral Processing, Kunming
• 2004 FIChemE; FIMMM

Biography

• Professor, Imperial College London 2005-present
• Professor, University of Manchester 2005
• MBA, Manchester Business School, 2001
• Reader, Senior Lecturer, Lecturer UMIST 1994-2005
• Senior Lecturer and PhD University of Cape Town 1990-1994
• BSc (Eng), MSc University of the Witwatersrand 1981-1986

Positions

• Board, IMMM Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Division
• International Mineral Processing Council: also leads the Commission on Education - IMPC Minerals Industry Education and Training Book download
• Council of SAIMM

Education

• Master of Business Administration (MBA) The University of Manchester (1998 — 2000)
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) University of Cape Town (1990 — 1995)
• BSc, MSc University of the Witwatersrand (1981 — 1985)