Vladimiros Papangelakis

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NSERC/Vale/Agnico Eagle/Neo Materials Industrial Research Chair in Water and Sustainable Extractive Metallurgy

2019/20 • $137,498 • PI
Effluent treatment,Freeze concentration,Hydrometallurgy,Membrane processes,Mining influenced water,Osmotic processes,Separation,Tailings,Water recycling,Water reuse

Hybrid forward osmosis - Freeze concentration process for process water purification and recovery

2019/20 • $125,000 • PI
Zero liquid discharge (ZLD) in chemical and mining industry operations has not been fully achieved yet and fresh water intakes are still high. At the Institute for Water Innovation of the University of Toronto, we recently developed a patented hybrid Forward Osmosis (FO)-Freeze Concentration...

Water in Sustainable Hydrometallurgy

2018/19-2019/20 • $92,000 • PI
With increasing global awareness for the needs of sustainable development, exploitation of natural resources respecting the environmental and societal impacts has become the centerpiece of policy makers around the world. Hydrometallurgy uses water-based chemistry and engineering for metal...

Developing biofilm-based microalgal bioreactors for the efficient production of fuels, chemicals and clean water

2014/15-2017/18 • $472,000 • PI,CO
Using microalgae to convert carbon to biomass is one of the most promising technologies for developing renewable fuels. Algae produces more biomass than conventional crops such as corn and sugar beet, can be used to capture carbon and can be used in water treatment processes. Despite these...

Water in Sustainable Hydrometallurgy

2013/14-2017/18 • $220,000 • PI
With increasing global demand for raw materials, the Canadian metals industry is expanding and investing in new projects around the world. Hydrometallurgy uses water-based chemistry to engineer metal recovery from natural mineral resources and inorganic wastes by employing a variety of chemical...

Workshop on water challenges in natural resource industries

2016/17 • $5,000 • PI
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Bioprocessing of nickeliferous sulphidic wastes from mining activities

2013/14-2014/15 • $140,000 • PI,CO
We propose to investigate the amenability to bio-processing of a metallurgical waste stream produced by the Xstrata Nickel smelting operations in Sudbury, Ontario, namely nickeliferous pyrrhotite concentrate. This is an iron-sulphur mineral (approx. stoichiometry Fe1-xS) that is rejected because...

Bio-leaching of nickeliferous pyrrhotite and ultramafic concentrates

2011/12-2013/14 • $300,000 • PI,CO
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Inductively Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectrometer (ICP-OES)

2011/12 • $127,727 • PI,CO
The requested equipment is an Inductively Coupled Plasma - Optical Emission Spectrometer (ICP-OES), as the most reliable and sensitive method used for the rapid, simultaneous multi-element determinations at the ultra-trace level. The advanced analytical capabilities of the ICP-OES allow for high...

Acoustic - Electroacoustic Spectrometer (AES) for colloids characterization

2011/12 • $100,757 • PI,CO
The requested acoustic-electroacoustic spectrometer (AES) is an instrument that will be primarily utilized in determining the size and charge of particles and drops in suspensions and emulsions. Charge and size are important at the time of determining the estability of suspensions and emulsions....

New sensors in pressure hydrometallurgy

2010/11-2011/12 • $56,040 • PI
With increasing global demand for raw materials, the Canadian metals industry is expanding and investing in new projects around the world. Pressure Hydrometallurgy is a technology used for metal recovery from ores and concentrates that employs high temperatures and pressures on aqueous media. It...

Thermal analysis equipment

2010/11 • $148,725 • PI,CO
This application is for a thermal analysis system consisting of a Thermogravimetric Analyzer (TGA/DTA), a Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC) and a Mass Spectrometer (MS) detector.The thermal analysis equipment requested will replace and upgrade a now no-longer operable TGA/DSC apparatus...

analytical electron microscope (asem) for research and training in textural and chemical analysis

2010/11 • $143,000 • PI,CO
Detailed chemical and textural analysis of synthetic and natural samples is central to the development of advanced engineered materials as well as to our understanding of the Earth and terrestrial planets. The electron microscope is one of a family of modern instruments used to provide this...

High throughput culturing system for evolutionary engineering

2010/11 • $126,760 • PI,CO
The genomics revolution has provided an unprecedented opportunity to apply biotechnology for the solution of a range of practical problems including 1) efficient extraction of metals from sulfide minerals with minimal environmental impact, 2) identification and characterization of novel enzymes...

Application of molten salt hydrates to laterite upgrading

2010/11 • $61,000 • PI,CO
Molten Salt Hydrates (MSHs) are promising media for chemical metallurgical processes. These are highly concentrated salt solutions, for example, molten FeSO4-7H2O or CaCl2-4H2O where the polar water molecule is bound to the salt. This gives MSHs a number of unusual properties that put them in a...

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