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Ph.D (University of Queensland)
Projects (Chief investigator)
- Evaluate the operational performance and industry application for the final evaporator design at Victoria Mill
- Improving pan stage performance by on-line monitoring of C seed grainings by using the ITECA Crystobserver
- Investigating the corrosivity of evaporator condensates and the contributing factors
- Investigations to mitigate the effects of juice degradation in factory evaporators on sugar recovery and quality, corrosion and effluent organic loading
- On-line measurement of the physical properties of each cane consignment at the factory
- Pan design and operational changes to suit Australian pan stages operating on low pressure vapour
- Use of a purge sensor to improve performance and reduce supervision of batch centrifugals
Projects
- Development and evaluation of a pilot scale bagacillo removal system from juice
- Development of factory training for the Australian Sugar Industry
- Evaluating the suitability of measuring massecuite dry substance for control on Australian pan stages
- Sugar milling R&D capability building program
Additional information
Professional Experience:
- 1971 to 2005 Principal Engineer & Group Leader– Process Group, Sugar Research Institute, Mackay, Queensland.
- 2005 to present Professor/Principal Engineer– Sugar Research and Innovation@QUT, Brisbane, Queensland.
- Design, commissioning and operation of batch and continuous vacuum pans
- Recovery of sugar from final products
- Centrifugation of high and low grade massecuites
- Juice heating and multiple effect evaporation
- Plant design and process equipment design; process control
- Computer simulations of process operations
- Plant audits, technical efficiency assessments, energy efficiency audits
- Strategic planning