Summary

About the Goldcorp Endowed Chair in Minerals Engineering

The chair supports the Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering in recognition w88 sports betting app importance of higher education in the academic areas critical to the minerals industry. Established: 2008. (Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering)

w88 sports betting app Interests

Activated Carbon w88 sports betting app, Energy Storage, Nuclear w88 sports betting app and Spent Nuclear Fuel Recycle using Molten Salts, Ceramics, Powder Metallurgy, Supply and Demand of Coal, Oil and Natural Gas, Renewable Energy Usage, Oxidation-Reduction Chemistry, Electrochemistry, Hydrometallurgy, Mineral Processing Technology, Water Treatment, Metal Precipitation Processes, w88 sports betting app Processing Technology.

Experience

• 2009 - Present: Associate Professor–Newmont Co-chair, Department of Mining Engineering, w88 sports betting app Nevada, Reno, Nevada
• 2007-2009: Research Associate Professor, Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering Dept., w88 sports betting app Nevada, Reno, Nevada
• 2002-2009: Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Michigan Technological w88 sports betting app, Houghton, Michigan
• 2001-2002: Associate Professor, Department of Mining and Materials Processing Engineering, Michigan Technological w88 sports betting app, Houghton, Michigan
• 1996-2001: Associate Professor, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Michigan Technological w88 sports betting app, Houghton, Michigan
• 1990-1996: Assistant Professor, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Michigan Technological w88 sports betting app, Houghton, Michigan
• 1988-1990: Research Fellow and Lecturer, Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, w88 sports betting app Nevada, Reno, Nevada
• 1986-1988: Research and Teaching Fellow, Department of Material Sciences and Engineering, w88 sports betting app Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• 1985-1986: Research Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering, w88 sports betting app Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• 1980-1983: w88 sports betting app Engineer, Nevada Moly Operation, Anaconda Minerals Company, Tonopah, Nevada

Patents

• Monolithic w88 sports betting app Material-currently assigned to Reticle Inc., Los Altos, California
• U.S. Patent No. 6,350,520: C. C. w88 sports betting app and X. Sun, "Consolidated Amorphous Carbon Materials, Their Manufacture and Use", Issued February 26, 2002.
• U.S. Patent No. 6,511,645: C. C. w88 sports betting app and X. Sun, "Consolidated Amorphous Carbon Materials, Their Manufacture and Use", Issued January 28, 2003.
• U.S. Patent No. 6,544,648: C. C. w88 sports betting app and X. Sun, "Consolidated Amorphous Carbon Materials, Their Manufacture and Use", Issued April 8, 2003.
• U.S. Patent No. 6,787,235: C. C. w88 sports betting app and X. Sun, "Consolidated Amorphous Carbon Materials, Their Manufacture and Use", Issued September 7, 2004.
• Australia Patent No. 755,842: C.C. w88 sports betting app and X. Sun, "Consolidated Amorphous Carbon Materials, Their Manufacture and Use", Standard Patent Granted April 7, 2005.
• PCT Patents Pending: Canada, UAE, Europe, China, Japan, Indonesia and Mexico.
• Ferric Ion Generator ("Stand-Alone Automated Bioreactor for Ferric Ion Generation"— SAAB-FIG) currently assigned to Ferritech Inc., Los Altos, California
• U.S. Patent No. 6,043,022: D. R. Lueking and C. C. w88 sports betting app, "Apparatus for the Generation and Use of Ferric Ions", Issued March 28, 2000.
• U.S. Patent No. 5,827,701: D. R. Lueking and C. C. w88 sports betting app, "Method for the Generation and Use of Ferric Ions", Issued October 27, 1998.
• Republic of South Africa Patent No. 97/4368: Board of Control of Michigan Technological University (Donald R. Lueking and Carl C. w88 sports betting app, Inventors), "Apparatus and method for the generation and use of ferric ions", October 28, 1998.
• Australian Patent No. 725,634: Board of Control of Michigan Technological University (Donald R. Lueking and Carl C. w88 sports betting app, Inventors), "Apparatus and method for the generation and use of ferric ions", Accepted Journal Date October 19, 2000.
• Mexico Patent No. 201,601: Board of Control of Michigan Technological University (Donald R. Lueking and Carl C. w88 sports betting app, Inventors), "Aparato Y Metodo Para La Generacion Y Uso De Iones Ferricos", Granted April 27, 2001.
• Peru Patent No. 2595: Board of Control of Michigan Technological University (Donald R. Lueking and Carl C. w88 sports betting app, Inventors), "Aparato Y Metodo Para La Generacion Y Uso De Iones Ferricos", Granted August 29, 2002.
• German Patent No. DE 697 15 299 T2: Board of Control Michigan Technological University (Donald Lueking and Carl C. w88 sports betting app, Inventors) "Verfahren zur Erzeugung und Verwendung von mittels Bakterien produzierten Eissen (III)-lonen." Granted September 11, 2002.
• European Patent No. 808,910: Board of Control Michigan Technological University (Donald Lueking and Carl C. w88 sports betting app, Inventors) "Method for the generation and use of ferric ions produced by bacteria", Granted September 11, 2002.
• United Kingdom Patent No. 808,910: Board of Control of Michigan Technological University (Donald R. Lueking and Carl C. w88 sports betting app, Inventors), "Apparatus and method for the generation and use of ferric ions", Accepted Journal Date 2003.
• Indonesia Patent No. ID 0011302: Board of Control of Michigan Technological University (Donald R. Lueking and Carl C. w88 sports betting app, Inventors), "Peralatan Dan Metoda Untuk Pembangkitan Dan Penggunaan Ion-Ion Ferri", Issued August 5, 2003.
• Patents Pending: Canada (Appl. No. 2205151), Chile (Appl. No. 960-97), Brazil (Appl. No. P-19703302.2), and Argentina (Appl. No. P-970102149).

List of w88 sports betting app Clients

• U.S. DoE (Current): Providing fundamental studies w88 sports betting app recycle of spent nuclear fuel
• rods w88 sports betting app molten salt electrochemical reduction. The study includes determining the thermodynamic parameters, crucible material selection and novel methods for encapsulating high level radioactive salt compounds.
• U.S. DoE (Current): Advising students and researchers on a project to produce hydrogen w88 sports betting app solar energy. The project utilizes novel manufacturing techniques to produce advanced photoelectrochemical electrodes for the optimal conversion of solar energy into electrochemical reduction of water into hydrogen and oxygen.
• U.S. DoE (Current): Testing of the corrosion of w88 sports betting app for GenIV nuclear power plants. The study included production of a laboratory scale liquid sodium cooling loop to test various concentrations of dissolved oxygen and the effect on structural w88 sports betting app for the next generation nuclear power plants.
• U.S. DoE: Managed a project to investigate the corrosion behavior of Alloy 22. This material was considered to encase the nuclear waste to be deposited in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository. Cathodic and anodic polarization tests, and rotating disk tests were conducted in a variety of electrolytes (typical to the region), and temperatures.
• Wharf Resources: Study the application of Reticle Carbon to the remove selenium, cyanide or other ions w88 sports betting app process water of a gold mining operation. Developed and constructed a laboratory and pilot-scale cell for the removal of selenium w88 sports betting app waste water.
• Dow Corning: Study the application of SAAB-FIG generated leach solutions for the removal and recovery of w88 sports betting app silicon materials. Determined the preliminary and final design and economics of a plant which used ferric-rich solutions to dissolve and recover copper from waste materials.
• Newmont w88 sports betting app Services: (two projects)
• (1) Developed, engineered and optimized a process to treat and recycle the lead w88 sports betting app fire assay wastes. A full-scale facility is currently in operation.
• (2) Conducted preliminary study on the efficacy of using a precipitation process to treat the acid rock drainage w88 sports betting app their Batu Haiju mine in Indonesia.
• Copper Range Company: Developed a biological w88 sports betting app for in situ copper leaching plant. The plant shut down before pilot scale plant could be constructed. The w88 sports betting app was patented in the U.S. and internationally (SAAB-FIG).
• Barrick Goldstrike Mine: Used the biological w88 sports betting app for leaching experiments with refractory gold ores. Developed laboratory experiments that Barrick personnel could use to evaluate autoclave w88 sports betting app parameters.
• Kohler and U.S. EPA: Developed, tested and optimized a process for the removal and recovery of lead w88 sports betting app brass wastes.
• Michigan Great Lakes Protection Fund: Developed and optimized a process to remove mercury w88 sports betting app copper concentrates prior to smelting.
• Work Experience:
• Anaconda Minerals Company: w88 sports betting app engineer for a 30,000-tpd molybdenite concentrator and leaching facility. Performed operational optimization and was the engineer for three construction projects in the three years on the job.
• United States Bureau of Mines: Research associate working on several projects, including the isolation and recovery of heavy minerals w88 sports betting app sand and gravel plants of the Pacific Northwest, and the recovery of scheelite by flotation using fatty acid collectors.

List of Consultant Clients and w88 sports betting app Associations

• Reticle Inc. (current client): Founder, President and CEO of a California-based startup company that manufactures, produces, and engineers systems using a unique, high surface area activated carbon material. The company was established in 1997, and has lead to cooperative studies in enhanced ion removal w88 sports betting app drinking water and wastewater and the recovery of metal value w88 sports betting app dilute streams. Recently, we began using the material in advanced ultracapacitors for storing solar and wind energy for use during peak demand. Work has also begun to use Reticle Carbon as a catalyst for the capture of CO2 for the direct reduction into useful fuels, such as CO and methanol. A proposal submitted to DoE SBIR is in review.
• Altos Management Partners (current client): A California market strategy consulting company that produces world-market modeling software for oil, natural gas, electricity and coal. I have helped with several of their clients, including: Chevron, Calpine, Shell Oil, Black & Veatch My most recent involvement has been in the quantification of petroleum reserves and production rates in all regions w88 sports betting app world. Also, I have been involved with the modeling w88 sports betting app mining, delivery, gasification and desulfurization of coal. I have amassed the supply information for a comprehensive, world-model of copper and coal mining.
• Ferritech Inc. (current client): Founder of a California-based startup company that tests and applies ferric iron that is biologically generated using the SAAB-FIG technology developed and patented at MTU. The company was established in 2003 in partnership with Dr. Donald Lueking, co-inventor of the w88 sports betting app.
• SDSU Foundation, Energy Innovations Small Grant (EISG) Program, California Energy Commission (current client): Reviewer of grants to the CEC for innovative energy projects. I have reviewed several renewable energy projects using a variety of sources ranging w88 sports betting app tidal current to wind, and solar. I have also been asked to review water treatment projects as part of this duty.
• EverClear Solutions, LLC: Evaluate and design novel process for the recovery of metals w88 sports betting app acid-rock drainage and pit waters.
• Plaza-Integrated Industries Ltd.: Design and lab-scale evaluation of processes for recovering metal w88 sports betting app ores and metal wastes.
• SaskWater: Studied the application of Reticle Carbon in the removal of ions from drinking water from small municipalities of Saskatchewan. A side benefit of this project was proof that we could produce potable water using solar energy, which could be stored in units until needed. Worked in conjunction with Dr. Gordon Sparks of w88 sports betting app Saskatchewan.
• Peninsula Copper Industries Inc.: Designing the experimental protocol for developing new w88 sports betting app streams in a copper recycling operation. Involved in the engineering economic analysis to determine future plant operation strategy and product lines.
• Barrick Gold Company: Reviewed data to help determine the factors affecting the operation of the company's autoclaves. w88 sports betting app changes based on economic evaluations were provided to the company as part of the contract.
• Custom Heat Treat: Developed a recycle strategy to recover more that 90% of the company's waste barium chloride salts. The w88 sports betting app was implemented based on the economic and w88 sports betting app analysis that I provided.

Education

• Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering w88 sports betting app Nevada, Reno 1990
• M.S.E. in Chemical Engineering w88 sports betting app Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1989
• M.S. in Metallurgical Engineering w88 sports betting app Nevada, Reno 1985

List of Relevant Publications

• Rahman, M.S., Raja, K.S., w88 sports betting app, C. and Misra, M. "Characterization of High Temperature Deformation Behavior of INCONEL 617 Using Scanning Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy", Mechanics of Materials, 41(2009), pp. 261-270.
• Carl C. w88 sports betting app, "Reticle Carbon: Electrode Material for Ultracapacitors", available for download at http://Ultracapacitors.org
• Carl C. w88 sports betting app, "Use of Reticle Carbon in Supercapacitors", Clean Technology2008 Technical Proceedings, June, 2008, pp. 463-466, ISBN 978-1-4200-8502-0.
• Rahman, M.S., Raja, K.S., w88 sports betting app, C. and Misra, M. "Investigation of High Temperature Deformation Properties of Alloy 617 Using Scanning Kelvin Probe Force Microscope", Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, 2008 (97), pp. 685-685.
• Carl C. w88 sports betting app, "Waste Reduction in Metals Manufacturing", Chapter 2 of Environmentally Conscious Materials and Chemical Processes, Myer Kurtz, Editor, John Wiley & Sons, pp. 33-58, March, 2007 (ISBN: 978-0-471-73904-3).
• Nicholas R. Ballor, Carl C. w88 sports betting app, and Donald R. Lueking, "Recovery of Scrap Iron Value Using Biogenerated Ferric Iron", Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Volume 93, Number 6 (April, 2006), pp. 1089-1094.
• Donald Lueking and Carl C. w88 sports betting app, "Ferric Iron Biogeneration: An Extreme Approach," SIM News: The Official News Magazine of the Society for Industrial Microbiology, Vol. 54, No. 1, (January/February 2004), pp. 4-9.
• Carl C. w88 sports betting app and Donald R. Lueking, "The Recovery of Copper from Spent Bed Material Using Biologically Regenerated Ferric Leach Solutions-the SAAB-FIG Process", invited paper in Silicon for the Chemical Industry IV, Øye, Rong, Nygaard, Schüssler and Tuset, Eds., Loen, Norway, June 17-21, 2002.
• C.C. w88 sports betting app and D.R. Lueking, "The Use of Separate Unit Processes and Indirect Leaching for the Recovery of Copper from Chalcocite and Chalcopyrite," International Congress on Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy, The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (2000), pp. 249-252.
• T. Wahyudi, T.J. Bornhorst, and C. w88 sports betting app, "A Comparative Study of Cyanide and Bromine Recovery of Gold from a Roasted Osikonmäki Gold Ore, Finland", in Geological setting and characteristics of the tonalite-hosted Paleoproterozoic Gold Deposit of Osikonmäki, Ranasalmi, Southeastern Finland, O. Kontoniemi and P. Nurmi, Eds., Geological Survey of Finland, Special Paper 25 (1998), pp. 111-119.
• John L. Uhrie, James I. Drever, Patricia J.S. Colberg and Carl C. w88 sports betting app, "In Situ Immobilization of Heavy Metals Associated with Uranium Leach Mines by Bacterial Sulfate Reduction," Hydrometallurgy, 43 (1996), pp. 231-239.
• Sue Xue and Carl C. w88 sports betting app, "Process Development for Recovery of Lead as Lead Monoxide From Lead- Bearing Waste", Second International Symposium on Extraction and Processing for the Treatment and Minimization of Wastes, V. Ramachandran and C. C. w88 sports betting app, Eds., The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, Warrendale, PA, 1996.
• J.A. Willemin, C.C. w88 sports betting app, G.R. Dewey, and J.F. Sandell, "Flow Injection Analysis of MWC Fly Ash Leaching Characteristics," The Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association, Vol. 45, November (1995), pp. 871-876.
• Stanley J. Vitton, Carl C. w88 sports betting app and Leon Y. Sadler, "Soil Particle-Size Analysis Using X-ray Absorption", 75th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board of the National Research Council, January 7-11, 1996, Washington, D.C. (Published in February, 1996 issue of Journal of the Transportation Research Board of the National Research Council).
• Carl C. w88 sports betting app and Sui Xue, "Recycling of Base Metals from Metal Wastes of Brass Foundries", in Treatment and Minimization of Heavy Metal Containing Waste, The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society of the AIME, Warrendale, PA, pp. 43-56, 1995. (Presented at TMS-AIME Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, NV, February, 1995).
• C.C. w88 sports betting app and T.E. Davis, "Removal of Heavy Metals from Metallurgical Effluents by the Simultaneous Precipitation and Flotation of Metal Sulfides Using Column Cells", Extraction and Processing for the Treatment and Minimization of Wastes, TMS-AIME, Warrendale, PA, pp. 331-342, 1994. (Presented at TMS-AIME Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA, February, 1994.)