Role at ANSTO
Dr John Demol is an applied research chemist in ANSTO's Minerals Group with close to 15 years of experience working in metallurgical processing. His role covers process development work for a wide range of metals with a bent toward thermal treatment processes and understanding phase transformations at elevated temperature and in subsequent leaching.
His research background, a PhD, is in the sulfuric acid baking of rare earth ores, with a particular interest in understanding how mineralogy drives the fundamental reaction processes in the bake and how these affect the subsequent deportment of rare earths and impurities.
John has a keen interest in the application of novel processing solutions to commercial projects, being co-inventor on two processing patents and driving the commercialisation of a third patent.
Expertise
Metallurgical process development, thermal processes, rare earth ore processing, off-gas analysis, phase characterisation
Qualifications & Achievements
- PhD in extractive metallurgy at Murdoch University (2018)