Professor Jannie van Deventer

Hons.B.Eng. (Chem. Eng.), Stellenbosch, 1978
Hons.B.Com. (Business Economics), South Africa, 1982
Ph.D. (Chem. Eng.), Stellenbosch, 1985
D.Com. (Business Economics), South Africa, 1991
D.Eng. (Minerals Eng.), Stellenbosch, 1999

Professor of Mineral and Process Engineering

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Tel: (61) (3) 8344 9737
Fax: (61) (3) 8344 4153

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Awards

1. P.E. Rousseau award for excellence, 1984
2. President's Award of the Foundation for Research Development (FRD), 1991
3. Overseas Industry Award from the FRD, 1992
4. British Association Medal (Silver) for 1992
5. Classified as an "A" category researcher by the FRD, 1994
6. Listed as one of the 100 most influential engineers in Australia, 2004, 2005 and 2006.
7. IChemE ExxonMobil Award, 2006
8. INNOVIC’s The Next Big Thing award, 2008

Research Activities

• Leader of The Geopolymer and Mineral Processing Group
• Extraction of precious metals from refractory ores
• Geopolymerisation of waste materials
• Immobilisation of toxic waste
• Commercialisation of geopolymers in construction
• Chair of RILEM Technical Committee on Alkali Activated Materials

Selected Publications

1. Duxson, P., Provis, J.L., Lukey, G.C., Separovic, F. & Van Deventer, J.S.J., “29Si NMR study of structural ordering in aluminosilicate geopolymer gels," Langmuir, vol. 21, no. 7, 2005, pp. 3028-3036. [link]
2. Provis, J.L., Duxson, P., Lukey, G.C. & Van Deventer, J.S.J., “A statistical thermodynamic model for Si/Al ordering in amorphous aluminosilicates," Chemistry of Materials, vol. 17, no. 11, 2005, pp. 2976-2986. [link]
3. Provis, J.L., Lukey, G.C. & Van Deventer, J.S.J., “Do geopolymers actually contain nanocrystalline zeolites? – A re-examination of existing results,” Chemistry of Materials, vol. 17, no. 12, 2005, pp. 3075-3085. [Review article and cover graphic]
4. Duxson, P., Mallicoat, S.W., Lukey, G.C., Kriven, W.M. & Van Deventer, J.S.J., "The effect of alkali and Si/Al ratio on the development of mechanical properties of metakaolin-based geopolymers", Colloids and Surfaces A, vol. 292, no. 1, 2007, pp. 8-20.
5. Provis, J.L. & Van Deventer, J.S.J., "Geopolymerisation kinetics. 1. In situ energy-dispersive X-ray diffractometry", Chemical Engineering Science, vol. 62, no. 9, 2007, pp. 2309-2317.
6. Duxson, P., Fernandez-Jimenez, A., Provis, J.L., Lukey, G.C., Palomo, A. & Van Deventer, J.S.J., "Geopolymer technology: the current state of the art", Journal of Materials Science, vol. 42, no. 9, 2007, pp. 2917-2933.
7. Rees, C.A., Provis, J.L., Lukey, G.C. & Van Deventer, J.S.J., "In situ ATR-FTIR study of the early stages of fly ash geopolymer gel formation", Langmuir, vol. 23, no. 17, 2007, pp. 9076-9082.
8. Provis, J.L., Walls, P.A. & Van Deventer, J.S.J., “Geopolymerisation kinetics. 3. Effects of Cs and Sr salts,” Chemical Engineering Science, vol. 63, no. 18, 2008, pp. 4480-4489.
9. Xu, H., Provis, J.L., Van Deventer, J.S.J. & Krivenko, P.V., “Characterization of aged slag concretes,” ACI Materials Journal, vol. 105, no. 2, 2008, pp. 131-139.
10. Zhang, J., Provis, J.L., Feng, D. & Van Deventer, J.S.J, “Geopolymers for immobilization of Cr⁶⁺, Cd²⁺, and Pb²⁺ ,” Journal of Hazardous Materials, vol. 157, nos. 2-3, 2008, p. 587-598.
11. White, C.E., Provis, J.L., Kearley, G.J. & Van Deventer, J.S.J., What is the structure of kaolinite? Reconciling theory and experiment,” Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 113, no. 19, 2009, pp. 6756-6765.

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