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

Emeritus Professor and Professorial Fellow

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Tel: (61) (3) 9303 7777
Fax: (61) (3) 9303 7644

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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

• Founder of the Geopolymer and Minerals 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

• 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.
• Lloyd, R.R., Provis, J.L., Smeaton, K.J. & Van Deventer, J.S.J., “ Spatial distribution of pores in fly ash-based inorganic polymer gels visualised by Wood's metal intrusion,” Microporous & Mesoporous Materials, vol. 126, nos. 1-2, 2009, pp. 32-39.
• Provis, J.L., Rose, V., Bernal, S.A. & Van Deventer, J.S.J., “High-resolution nanoprobe X-ray fluorescence characterization of heterogeneous calcium and heavy metal distributions in alkali activated fly ash, Langmuir, vol. 25, no. 19, 2009, pp. 11897-11904.
• Feng, D. & Van Deventer, J.S.J., “Oxidative pre-treatment in thiosulphate leaching of sulphide gold ores,” International Journal of Mineral Processing, vol. 94, nos. 1-2, 2010, pp. 28-34.
• Feng, D. & Van Deventer, J.S.J., “Thiosulphate leaching of gold in the presence of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA),” Minerals Engineering, vol. 23, no. 2, 2010, pp. 143-150.
• Van Deventer, J.S.J., Provis, J.L., Duxson, P. & Brice, D.G., “Chemical research and climate change as drivers in the commercial adoption of alkali activated materials,” Waste & Biomass Valorization, vol. 1, no. 1, 2010, pp. 145-155.
• Feng, D. & Van Deventer, J.S.J., “The effect of iron contaminants on thiosulphate leaching of gold,” Minerals Engineering, vol. 23, no. 5, 2010, pp. 399-406.
• Lloyd, R.R., Provis, J.L. & Van Deventer, J.S.J., “Pore solution composition and alkali diffusion in inorganic polymer cement,” Cement and Concrete Research, vol. 40, no. 9, 2010, pp. 1386-1392.
• White, C.E., Provis, J.L., Proffen, T., Riley, D.P. & Van Deventer, J.S.J., “Combining density functional theory (DFT) and pair distribution function (PDF) analysis to solve the structure of metastable materials: The case of metakaolin,” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 12, no. 13, 2010, pp. 3239-3245.
• White, C.E., Provis, J.L., Proffen, T., Riley, D.P. & Van Deventer, J.S.J., “Density functional modeling of the local structure of kaolinite subjected to thermal dehydroxylation ,” Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 114, no.14, 2010, pp. 4988-4996.
• Hajimohammadi, A., Provis, J.L. & Van Deventer, J.S.J., “The effect of alumina release rate on the mechanism of geopolymer gel formation,” Chemistry of Materials, vol. 22, no. 18, 2010, pp. 5199-5208.
• Feng, D. & Van Deventer, J.S.J., “Effect of thiosulphate salts on ammoniacal thiosulphate leaching of gold,” Hydrometallurgy, vol. 105, nos. 1-2, 2010, pp. 120-126.
• White, C.E., Provis, J.L., Gordon, L.E., Riley, D.P., Proffen, T. & Van Deventer, J.S.J., “The effect of temperature on the local structure of kaolinite intercalated with potassium acetate,” Chemistry of Materials, vol. 23, no. 2, 2011, pp. 188-199.
• White, C.E., Provis, J.L., Kearley, G.J., D.P. Riley & Van Deventer, J.S.J., “Density functional modelling of silicate and aluminosilicate dimerisation solution chemistry,” Dalton Transactions, vol. 40, no. 6, 2011, pp. 1348-1355.

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