Associate Professor Neil Gray

BE(Metallurgical and Chemical) 1957
PhD University of Adelaide 1961
M.Phil., DIC. Imperial College 1967
Fellow AusImm(CP), Member TMS (USA)

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Telephone: (61) 3 8344 6639
Fax: (61) 3 8344 4153
Room 308, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Building 1

Current Research Activities

• Environmental Engineering
  • Sustainable Technologies
• Materials and Minerals Engineering
  • Pyrometallurgy
  • Properties of Engineering Materials
  • Process Simulation

Neil Gray leads the G.K. Williams Research Centre for Extractive Metallurgy, which began in 1984 and is now in its 20th year. In 1991 a Cooperative Research Centre was established which was one of the first to be awarded. Since July 2001 the Centre has continued with the research focus on the modelling of rate phenomena in the processing of materials of industrial significance. A new composite copper/refractory cooling system has been patented and developed in collaboration with WMC Limited and is currently being used in industrial furnaces. Commercialisation of the CFM cooling system technology continues with the technology being solid by RHI Refractories (Vienna) and Outokumpu Engineering Contractors Oy (Finland).

Professional Affiliations

• Fellow, The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
• Member, The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (USA)
• Chartered Professional (Metallurgy), The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.

Honours/Awards

2000 Extraction and Processing Science Award of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) of the USA for best papers published in Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B.

Professional Experience

• Reader, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Melbourne 1992 to present.
• Leader, GK Williams Research Centre for Extractive Metallurgy 2001 to present
• Deputy Director, GK Williams Co-operative Research Centre 1995 – 1998
• Visiting Professor, University of Missouri - Rolla 1999
• Visiting Professor, University of British Colombia 1982
• Senior Research Officer, BHP Central Research laboratories 1964 -1968

Selected Recent Publications

1. Firth, A.R., Gray, N.B. and Kyllo, A.K. Dynamics and Control of Solidification of Molten Metal Flows. Metallurgical and MaterialsTransactions B. Vol. 32B, 173-179, 2001.
2. Liow,J.L., Mikko Juusela, Gray, N.B. and Sutalo, I.D. Entrainment of aTwo Layer Fluid Through a Taphole. Metallurgical and Materials Transanctions B. Vol. 34B, 821-832, 2003.
3. Kyllo, A.K., Gray, N.B. and Elliot, B.J. Composite Furnace Module Cooling Systems. Journal of Refractory Innovations. Vol. 1, No.1, 9-11, 2003.