Comminution '23: a packed programme awaits delegates in Cape Town

We have had an amazing response to next April's Comminution '23, with a record number of abstracts submitted. The programme for the conference, which contains around 85 international presentations, in oral and poster presentations, is now available for viewing, and registration is now open.

The programme contains three keynote presentations from well known comminution specialists. Prof. Arno Kwade, Director of the Institute for Particle Technology at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, will present "Modelling and optimisation of wet and dry fine grinding processes" and Prof. Aubrey Mainza, of the University of Cape Town "High steel load in SAG mills and the implications on energy efficiency of this growing design trend." (see the posting of 3rd October for more information).

Prof. Malcolm Powell is one of the world's most well known comminution specialists. He has applied fundamental comminution research to design and process improvement on over 60 mines worldwide during 30 years at Mintek, University of Cape Town, and the JKMRC. He developed the comminution group at UCT into a world renowned leader in the field, now headed by Prof. Aubrey Mainza, MEI's comminution consultant.

His professional objective is to maximise resource utilisation  through significantly decreasing  the energy and environmental footprint. To this end he leads three R&D companies and contributes to University research. Prof. Powell collaborates extensively, with close compatriots on 5 continents and he is the founder of the Global Comminution Collaborative.

GCC members Malcolm Powell, Arno Kwade, Magnus Evertsson,
Aubrey Mainza, Marcelo Tavares and Hakan Benzer at Comminution '14

So who better than Malcolm to open Comminution '23 with a keynote presentation on "Taking ownership of our future: the case for cooperative research and technology development in the mining industry."

Although we have a packed technical programme over the four days of the conference, we have left plenty of time for networking, with long coffee and lunch breaks in the exhibition area, evening sundowners in the Vineyard Hotel gardens, and an informal dinner at the Gold Museum in the centre of Cape Town.

There is much to look forward to in MEI's first comminution conference back in Cape Town since Comminution '18.

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