Comminution '23 update

It's looking good for Comminution '23, which will be our first comminution conference back at Cape Town's Vineyard hotel in 5 years.  Comminution '18 now seems a lifetime ago!

Abstracts are now coming in steadily, and I remind you that the deadline for abstract submission is the end of this month.

We have two high profile keynote speakers. Prof. Aubrey Mainza, of the University of Cape Town will present "High steel load in SAG mills and the implications on energy efficiency of this growing design trend". More information is on the posting of 6th June 2022.

In the second keynote, Prof. Arno Kwade will present "Modelling and optimisation of wet and dry fine grinding processes".

Prof. Kwade is Director of the Institute for Particle Technology at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. He will show how fine milling processes are becoming more and more important in the mining industry, because of fine-grained ore and steadily increasing product requirements. As a consequence, for large-scale fine milling processes stirred media mills are increasingly used. Energy and water consumption are more and more crucial and he will show, by considering the stress energy distribution, how material transport and media distribution within the wet stirred media milling process can be predicted and optimized regarding energy efficiency, mill and media wear as well as product particle size distribution. He will also show that dry operation of stirred media mills has recently come into focus for the minerals industry in order to improve efficiency compared to tumbling ball mills or to avoid use of water and eventually expensive drying processes. By controlling the powder flow behaviour the energy efficiency, operation robustness and throughput can be maximized. 

Although we are expecting to have a packed programme we will, as always, leave plenty of time for socialising, with evening sundowners in the Vineyard gardens, coffee and lunch breaks with the exhibitors and an informal dinner at the Gold Museum in the centre of Cape Town.

Sundowner in the Vineyard gardens

Lunch in the exhibition

Such is the level of interest in the conference that we currently have 19 sponsors, 2 industry advocates and 2 media partners, and the 23 exhibition booths have already been sold, although if you are interested we can place you on a reserve list.

Current sponsors

Our latest sponsor, Eracles - Ceramiche Tecniche is new to MEI Conferences. Italian company Eracles have produced sinterised alumina grinding balls and mill linings called ERALOX since 1993. In 2000 the company joined the Torrecid Group and have been producing in China since 2012. We welcome them to the MEI family.

A lot to look forward to, so April 17-20 2023- dates for your diary!

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