Alam, Shafiq - University of Saskatchewan - Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

个人简介

After graduating with a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering in 1986, I worked as a Process Engineer at Shell Oil Company for over six years. I then received a fellowship from the British Council to pursue an M.Eng. program at Heriot-Watt University, UK. In 1995-1998, I obtained my M.Sc./Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Saga University, Japan. I then joined the hydrometallurgy group at the University of British Columbia as a post doctoral fellow where I was involved in an innovative research project of Falconbridge Ltd. At the University of Toronto as a post-doc research fellow, I carried out state-of-the-art research on nickel ore processing using pressure hydrometallurgy. This was a project of INCO Ltd., during their investigation of different alternative process strategies to recover nickel from the newly discovered deposit of Voisey’s Bay. In 2001, I took a position of hydrometallurgist with Process Research ORTECH Inc. at Mississauga , where I was actively involved with different challenging projects of mining, metallurgical, chemical and recycling industries. I am a recipient of industrial fellowship from Materials and Manufacturing Ontario (MMO). I also received a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) fellowship through NSERC to work as a “Visiting Research Scientist” at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. After spending two years in a highly technologically developed research facilities at AIST, I headed back to Vancouver, taking a position at Fluor Canada Ltd., where I was involved with different projects for the pre-feasibility study, feasibility study and detailed process engineering works to design a commercial copper production plant for Phelps Dodge at Arizona. In November 2006, I moved from the west coast to the east coast to establish my new research base in hydrometallurgy at Memorial University, where I was a tenured Associate Professor until August 2014. I am now an Associate Professor at the University of Saskatchewan. My research interest is Hydrometallurgy. I hold 2 patents and over 80 publications with presentation in different conferences. I am a registered Professional Engineer both in Ontario (PEO) and Newfoundland & Labrador (PEG-NL). I am an Executive Committee Member of the Hydrometallurgy Section of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) and currently hold the office of "Secretary". I am also the "Vice-Chair" (2013-2015) of the "Hydrometallurgy and Electrometallurgy Committee" of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS), one of the largest professional organizations, headquartered in Pennsylvania, USA. I am actively involved with the committee in organizing different international conferences, such as, the Conference of Metallurgists (COM) in Canada; “Rare Metals Extraction & Processing Symposium" at the TMS 2014 conference in San Diego, California; Ni-Co Symposium at TMS 2013 in Texas, USA; and the Copper 2013 Conference in Chile. I am the Faculty Advisor of the CIM-MetSoc Student Chapter at Memorial University that I founded in 2008. Our Chapter has own the Outstanding Award in 2010. I am an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Mining, Materials and Metallurgical Engineering (IJMMME).

研究领域

2013-2014 Solid waste spent catalyst recovery from "Come by chance" refinery plant in Newfoundland (Harris Centre - MMSB Waste Management Fund) 2013-2013 Application of bio-adsorbents to improve the gold recovery process (NSERC Engage with Rambler Metals and Mining Canada Ltd.) 2012-2014 Extraction of nickel from Ni-Fe alloys (Altius Resources Inc. and RDC) 2012-2013 Recycling of electronic waste (Harris Centre - MMSB Waste Management Fund) Production of adsorbents from marine biomass wastes for the mining / metallurgical industries (Multi-Materials Stewardship Board (MMSB)) 2012-2012 Gold recovery through biosorption (NSERC Engage with Barrick Gold Corporation) Hydrometallurgical recovery of gold using lignin-based adsorbents (NSERC Engage with Kruger Inc.) 2011-2014 Recovery of gold from dilute solutions by using some biomass wastes (NSERC Discovery Grant) 2011-2012 Production of wood-based adsorbents for the recovery of precious metals (The Centre for Forest Science and Innovation (CFSI), Department of Natural Resources) Production of bio-adsorbents using cellulosic biomass wastes for the mining and metallurgical industries (Harris Centre - MMSB Waste Management Fund) 2010-2012 Green recovery of precious metals through biosorption (PEDRL) 2010-2011 Treatment of severe acid mine drainage (AMD) by removing heavy/toxic metals using bio-adsorbents (Harris Centre) 2009-2010 Development of application parameters for the treatment of severe acid mine drainage (AMD) - A sustainable way to control environmental pollution (Harris Centre) Prior to 2010 Impurities removal from cobalt electrolyte solution (ACOA, Vale Inco, NSERC (through collaborator)) Cobalt extraction from a high tenor nickel leach liquor (ACOA, Vale Inco (In-Kind Support: Murrin Murrin. CESL/Teck)) Studying organic losses in solvent extraction process and developing a method to reduce losses (ACOA, Vale Inco, PRAC (through collaborator)) Characterization and separation of precious metals from nickel concentrate (ACOA, Vale Inco, PRAC (through collaborator))

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S. Alam, "Sustainability in Mining Industry: A Tremendous Opportunity for Using Biomaterials in Extractive Metallurgy", Invited Guest Lecture. Presented in The 7th International Conference on Materials Engineering for Resources (ICMR 2013), Akita, Japan, November 20-22 (2013). S. Alam, "Gold Biosorption Using Bioadsorbents Prepared from Biomass Wastes?", Invited Lecture, Presented in a Seminar organized by the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Sydney, Australia, June 06 (2013). S. Alam, "Impurities Removal from High Tenor Cobalt Electrolyte Solution and Gold Biosorption?", Invited Lecture, Presented in a Seminar organized by the CSIRO, Perth, Australia, May 29 (2013). S. Alam, "Metals Recovery and Recycling through Biosorption", Invited Lecture, Presented in a Symposium organized by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan, November 20 (2012). S. Alam, “An Overview of the Metallurgical Industry and Metal Recycling in Canada”, Keynote Speech, The 8th Korea/Japan International Symposium on Resources Recycling and Materials Science, Seoul, Korea, June 24-25 (2010). S. Alam, “Metals Recycling in Canada – Where we Stand?”, Invited Lecture, Presented in a Symposium organized by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan, June 28 (2010). S. Alam, “Hydrometallurgical Research and Opportunity for Higher Education in Canadian University”, Invited Lecture, Presented on the occasion of Celebrating 60 Years of Engineering Education in Bangladesh, BUET, Dhaka, December 18 (2007). S. Alam, "Life and Study in Canada – An Overview on Hydrometallurgical Research in Canadian Universities", Invited Lecture, Presented in a Symposium Organized by Saga University, Japan, November 27 (2007).