Partnership with Hamersley Iron

Partnership with Hamersley Iron

This partnership, led by Prof Vladimir Strezov from the School of Natural Sciences, has focused on understanding the various potential impacts from the iron ore processing industry.

Understanding emissions

The project has investigated emissions produced from iron ore processing with the focus to understand the emissions, their composition, the mechanisms leading to emissions, and differences between different ore samples, which is a priority for the industry.

Emission particles

In earlier stages of this program, in partnership with Hamersley Iron, Macquarie University researchers studied the emission of particles during processing and explored how particles were formed and which ores produced the most particles. A key concern was to understand the chemical composition of the particles.

Volatiles

This work was followed by a project that looked at the volatiles released during processing and how these compounds are produced, including the material loss on ignition.

Collaboration with the National Measurement Institute (NMI)

Macquarie University and NMI established an agreement to collaborate on the project that investigates dioxin formation and emissions during high temperature industrial and metal smelting operations.

MI has developed a facility dedicated to analysing dioxins at ultra-trace levels in a range of materials.

Under this collaborative arrangement, Macquarie University and NMI collaborate through industry supervision of PhD students, measurements and analysis of Macquarie led projects at the NMI facilities.

Grant success

This partnership has led to four consecutive ARC Linkage grant and programs and was published by the Australian Government as a successful example for university-business collaboration in their Review for Research Policy and Funding Arrangements in 2015.