Overview
High-purity alumina (HPA) is a material which has found use in many high-tech applications such as LEDs, battery separators, integrated circuit substrates and scratch-resistant glass. HPA is produced from the extraction and hydrometallurgy of clay. This project aims to build an integrated data acquisition system for a HPA mini-plant located at QUT’s Redlands research site. The acquisition system, informed by machine learning, will assist plant operators to improve the yield, minimise costs and improve the quality of the produced HPA.
Outcomes
The Lava Blue mini-plant has been built at QUT’s Redlands site will produce 20kg per week of 99.99 per cent HPA.
Chief Investigators
