Prof. Suzan S. Ibrahim

Professor

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Head of Mineral Beneficiation and Agglomeration Division

Activities:

• Production of value added raw materials from local ores.
• Minimizing the production costs of minerals and ores at a minimum pollution hazards.
• Maximum utilization of natural resources is the main mission of the Mineral Technology Lab. This is usually accomplished via three consecutive steps i.e.
  
  • Bench scale mineral processing scheme
  • Pilot plant operations
  • Data compiled from these steps could be utilized in a Techno-economic Prefeasibility Study
• The Fundamental and applied research in the areas of mineral engineering and agglomeration of fines aim at:
  
  • Adaptation of mineral separation flow sheets to develop technically/ economically/ environmentally acceptable technology for beneficiation of low grade ores and minerals commodities.
  • Breakthrough technologies and innovations for production of value-added mineral concentrates that can be used in the manufacture of special compounds.
  • On-site research to solve trouble shootings of beneficiation plants and their rationalization by applying mathematical modeling, simulation and automatic control systems for maximizing the separation processes.
  • Innovating new bio-technological processes for treating difficult-to-beneficiate ores such as application of micro-organisms (or enzymes) in separating dolomite from sedimentary phosphates, desulfurization of coal, treating ferromanganese ores, dephosphorization of iron ores, purification of kaolin and clays, and other industrial minerals.
  • Solving environmental problems that start at the mining site or during the processing and/or production and ending with treating industrial wastes and effluents, e.g. removal of heavy metals from industrial streams, recovery of dyes and pigments from industrial effluents, decontamination of soils, deinking of newspapers and magazines using flotation process, etc.
  • Fundamental and applied research in the areas of minerals
    Applying mineral processing technology such as gravity separation, magnetic separation and flotation.
  • Applying dispersion and (selective) flocculation of minerals in sub-microns size.
  • Bio-processing to separate difficult to beneficiate ores such as separating dolomite from phosphate ores using microorganisms and enzymes.
  • Agglomeration and pelletization of mineral fines.
  • Solid- liquid separation including dewatering, filtration and drying.
  • Designing and developing flow-sheets for upgrading different minerals and ores through bench and continuous pilot plant operations.
    Related environmental services.
  • Techno-economic feasibility studies of minerals processing projects.
    Solving troubleshooting problems of beneficiation plants.