Type of Presentation
Inaugural Session
Type of Presentation
Invited talk
(25 min + 5 min)
Oral Presentation
(12 min +
3 min; each)
BR Nijhawan Mineral Symposium: Session 1(Inaugural)
Timing: 12th November, 13:30-15:30 hrs, Hall 15
Session Conveners: Dr. Srikant, Dr. Pradip, Dr. Beena Rai, Dr. Rakesh Kumar
Session Chair: Dr. Pradeep, Dr. Beena Rai
Start time
Author name and Affiliation
Title of Presentation
13:30-13:50 E G Ramachandran (Video)
Reminiscence about Dr. B. R. Nijhawan
13:50-14:40 Rajendra Kumar, G Thyagarajan,
Tribidesh Mukherjee
14:40-15:00 Shilowbhadra Banerjee
Steel Industry in India: Prospects of Growth
15:00-15:20
SP Mehrotra
15:20-15:30
S. Srikanth
Mechanical Activation of Gibbsite and
Boehmite New Findings and their Implications
Concluding Remarks
BR Nijhawan Mineral Symposium: Session 2
Timing: 12th November, 16:00-18:00 hrs, Hall 1
Session Conveners: Dr. Srikant, Dr. Pradip, Dr. Beena Rai, Dr. Rakesh Kumar
Session Chair: Rajendra Kumar
Start time
Author name and Affiliation
Title of Presentation
16:00-16:30 Mukesh Kumar
Mitigating Sustainability Challenges In Mining
And Mineral Industry Through Technological
Innovations
16:30-17:00 K A Natarajan
Environmentally Benign Bauxite Beneficiation
using Mining Microbes
17:00-17:15 G Balachandran
Exploitation of Rare earth Materials for
Modern Applications
17:15-17:30 G. V. Rao and S. K. Sharma
Recovery of iron values from Iron ore slimes
of Donimalai Tailing dam (0336)
17:30-17:45 Ammasi A and Jagannath Pal
Effect of an organic binder and industries
waste slag on pelletization of hematite ore
eliminating bentonite (0407)
17:45-18:00 Dharm Jeet Gavel, Arijit Biswas,
Waste Polymer Encapsulated Pellets (WPEP)
Pawan Kumar Bijalwan, Srinivas
Converting challenges into opportunities
Dwarapudi and Samik Nag
(0130)
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BR Nijhawan Mineral Symposium: Session 3
Timing: 13th November, 09:00-11:00 hrs, Hall 1
Session Conveners: Dr. Srikant, Dr. Pradip, Dr. Beena Rai, Dr. Rakesh Kumar
Session Chair: KA Natarajan
Type of Presentation
Start time
Author name and Affiliation
Title of Presentation
9:00-9:30
S K Pan
Recovery of quality iron ore fines concentrate
Invited talk
(25 min + 5 min)
through incorporation of slime beneficiation
system at SAIL mines
9:30-10:00
D P Chakraborty
Emerging iron ore beneficiation trends in
eastern India
10:00-10:30
SM Kulkarni
Raw Material Sustainability for Mineral
Processing Industry- Issues Opportunities and
Challenges
10:30-11:00
B K Satpathy
Processing of Coal Fly Ash for the Recovery
of Alumina
BR Nijhawan Mineral Symposium: Session 4
Timing: 13th November, 13:30-15:30 hrs, Hall 1
Session Conveners: Dr. Srikant, Dr. Pradip, Dr. Beena Rai, Dr. Rakesh Kumar
Session Chair: SP Mehrotra
Type of Presentation
Start time
Author name and Affiliation
Title of Presentation
13:30-14:00
S K Biswal
Technological Challenges on Low Grade Iron
Invited talk
(25 min + 5 min)
Ore Beneficiation and Pelletization
14:00-14:30
J Bustnes
Scandinavian experience with 100% pellets can Indian steel industry benefit
14:30-14:45
Binay Kumar, Ranjit Prasad,
Reduction Roasting of BHQ (0279)
Oral Presentation
(12 min +
Shishira Bhagavath,Sanjeev Kumar
3 min; each)
Das & R K Rath
14:45-15:00
15:00-15:15
Short oral presentation
followed by a poster
session
15:15 onwards
B.D. Mishra, P.S. Prusti, Dr. S.K.
Biswal, Dr. B.K. Mishra
Srinivas Dwarapudi, Chandra
Sekhar, Indrajit Paul, Prasad YGS,
Ujjal Chakraborty
Venugopal Tammishetti, Kaustubh
Joshi, Pradip and Beena Rai
Dharmendra Kumar, Venugopal
Tammishetti, Kaustubh Joshi,
Beena Rai and Pradip
Sanjay Kulkarni
Yakshil Chokshi, M. A. Limaye, S.
K. Dutta, D. R. Lodhari
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Physico-chemical analysis of iron ore tailings
(0060)
Dual Flux Iron Ore Pellets Quality and
Microstructure (0299)
Selective Dispersion-Flocculation Studies for
the Beneficiation of Indian Iron Ore Slimes
(0003)
Design of Experiments (DOE) Studies to
Optimize the Selective DispersionFlocculation of Indian Iron Ore Slimes using
Guar Gum Flocculant (0625)
Raw Material Planning Process for JSW SteelDolvi Complex (0257)
Mineralogical and characterization studies of
low grade iron ores (0828)
BR Nijhawan Mineral Symposium: Session 5
Timing: 13th November, 15:30-17:30 hrs, Hall 1
Session Conveners: Dr. Srikant, Dr. Pradip, Dr. Beena Rai, Dr. Rakesh Kumar
Session Chair: Shilowbhadra Banerjee
Type of Presentation
Start time
Author name and Affiliation
Title of Presentation
15:30-16:00
R N Patra
Role of metals in meeting the challenges of
Invited talk
(25 min + 5 min)
21st century
16:00-16:30
N P H Padmanabhan
Application of Ionic Liquids in Green
Extraction of Rare Earths
16:30-17:00
Beena Rai
Quantitative Estimation of Mineral Phases
from Chemical Assays and Powder X-ray
Diffraction Rietveld Analysis
17:00-17:15
Aarti Kumari, Manish K. Sinha,
Separation of Rare Earth Metals by Room
Oral Presentation
(12 min +
S.K. Sahu and B.D. Pandey
Temperature Ionic Liquid (0449)
3 min; each)
17:15-17:30
Manish K. Sinha, V.N.V. Hima
Selective Precipitation of Yttrium as High
Bindu, Swati Pramanaik, Sushanta
Purity Oxide from Leach Liquor of Phosphor
K. Sahu, Banshi D. Pandey
Powder (0471)
BR Nijhawan Mineral Symposium: Session 6
Timing: 14th November, 8:30-10:30 hrs, Hall 1
Session Conveners: Dr. Srikant, Dr. Pradip, Dr. Beena Rai, Dr. Rakesh Kumar
Session Chair: N P H Padmanabhan
Type of Presentation
Start time
Author name and Affiliation
Title of Presentation
8:30-9:00
G Bhaskar Raju
Beneficiation of Low grade Barites by
Invited talk
(25 min + 5 min)
Flotation Column
9:00-9:30
T Sreenivas
Developments in Oxidative Alakline
Processing of Indian Uranium Ores
9:30-9:45
S.K.Chaurasia , Dr. R Markendeya Effect of kimberlite dosage on green properties
Oral Presentation
(12 min +
of iron ore pellets (0445)
3 min; each)
9:45-10:00
Rajeev Verma
Selection of Process Technology for
Production of Pellets for use in BF (0268)
10:00-10:15
D.K.Singh, K.N.Hareendran,
Development of a phosphate precipitation
H.Singh and J.K.Chakravartty
method for the recovery of uranium from
carbonate leach liquor of Tummalapalle ore
(0623)
10:15
onwards
Sanjeev
Kumar
Das
&
Dr.
Ranjit
Megascopic and Microscopic Study of BHJ
Short oral presentation
Prasad
Sample(0061)
followed by a poster session
K.Narayana
GV Rao and SK Sharma
Shivendra Sinha, Subhas Ganguly
Abhilash, Pratima Meshram, B.D.
Pandey, B.K.Satpathy
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IOP Grade Bentonite for use as Binder in Iron
Ore Pelletization (0230)
National Steel Policy Challenger before Iron
Ore Producers (0336)
Prediction of lanthanum recovery from indian
red mud using artificial neural network (0020)
BR Nijhawan Mineral Symposium: Session 7
Timing: 15th November, 11:00-13:00 hrs, Hall 1
Session Conveners: Dr. Srikant, Dr. Pradip, Dr. Beena Rai, Dr. Rakesh Kumar
Session Chair: Dr. Pradip
Type of Presentation
Start time
Author name and Affiliation
Title of Presentation
11:00-11:30
J B Joshi
Development of efficient flotation columns:
Invited talk
(25 min + 5 min)
DNS Simulations and PIV Measurements
11:30-12:00
S Nanda
The Copper Conundrum
Oral Presentation
(12 min +
3 min; each)
12:00-12:30
S Subramanian
12:30-12:45
Vinay Jain, Pradip and Beena Rai
12:45 onwards
Enhancement of flotation selectivity of
sphalerite using mineral-stressed Paenibacillus
polymyxa and its cellular components
DFT Computations for Design of
Salicylaldoxime Derivatives (0001)
K. Pavitra, Dr. M Venkatraman
An Investigation on Red Ochre Iron ore from
Bhilwara region Rajasthan (0427)
Abhinav Anand and Priyanka Das
Characterization of Sukinda Chromite ores
(0088)
J. K. Sonber, T.S.R.Ch.Murthy, K.
Sairam & R. C. Hubli
Synthesis of Rare Earth Borides (0337)
Short oral presentation
followed by a poster session
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BR Nijhawan Mineral Symposium: Session 8
Timing: 15th November, 14:00-16:00 hrs, Hall 1
Session Conveners: Dr. Srikant, Dr. Pradip, Dr. Beena Rai, Dr. Rakesh Kumar
Session Chair: S Subramanian
Type of Presentation
Start time
Author name and Affiliation
Title of Presentation
14:00-14:30
Atanu Datta
Tailings Dewatering Technologies to Mitigate
Invited talk
(25 min +
Environmental Hazards (0931)
5 min)
A. K. Mandal, A. Das, O.P. Sinha Recycling of iron slime as an additive for
Oral Presentation
(12 min +
15:00-15:15
making Bottom Ash bricks (0054)
3 min; each)
15:15-15:30
P.R.Mishra, R.Sahu,
Coal and coal ash characteristics to understand
S.Chakravarty
mineral transformations of Talcher coalfields
(0489)
15:30-15:45
Electro Oxidation of Complex Sulphides
(0251)
Trinath Talapaneni1*, N. Yedla
15:45-16:00
B. Pranesh, K.S.Phani Kiran, K
JSW Journey Towards Clean Coke
Mallikarjun, Manoj Kumar Das,
Technology Through CDQ (0271)
Y. Venkateswarlu
Short oral presentation
followed by a poster session
16:00-16:15
T.K. Das, K.N. Ghosh, S. Misra,
B.K. Sahoo, O.S. Niyogi, P.K.
Jha and B.N. Prasad
Studies on effect of usage of inert-rich coal in
coal blend on coke properties through pilot
oven carbonization tests (0197)
16:15 onwards
Reji Mathai , V Ravichandran, T
K Teepan , M S Pillai
Met Coke Moisture Reduction Below 2.5% By
Using Coke Oven Based Partial Waste Flue
Gas (0441)
The influence of coke porosity on the moisture
adsorption capacity and hot strength property
of metallurgical coke (0429)
Experience on usage of higher percentage of
imported coal in coke making at Bhilai Steel
Plant (BSP) (0238)
K.B. Nagashanmugam , M.S.
Pillai, D. Ravichandar & Tapan
Kumar Naha
Praveen K Jha, B R Phuse, B C
Mandal, M K Solanki, G.
S.Venkata Subramanian, Satya
Prakash
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