TMS Logo Recipients: The 2004 EPD Extraction & Processing Technology Award

The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society's Extraction & Processing Division Extraction & Processing Technology Award was established in 1955 and recognizes a paper containing notable contributions to the advancement of the technology of the extraction and processing of nonferrous metals.
Paper Title: “Slags and Mattes in Vanyukov’s Process for the Extraction of Copper” and “Physicochemical Properties of Matte-Slag Melts Taken from Vanyukov’s Furnace for Copper Extraction”

Recipient PhotoSolomon Vaisburd (posthumously)

Biography: Solomon Vaisburd (posthumously) retired from his position as research associate for Technion—Israel Institute of Technology at the time of writing this paper.

Recipient PhotoDavid Brandon

Biography: David Brandon of Technion—Israel Institute of Technology.

Recipient PhotoSultanbek Kozhakhmetov

Biography: Sultanbek Kozhakhmetov is a professor at the Institute of Metallurgy and Ore Beneficiation. He earned a B.S. from Moscow Institute of Nonferrous Metals and Gold, an M.S. from the Institute of Metallurgy and Ore Beneficiation, and a Ph.D. from Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys. He has been doing scientific research work at the Institute of Metallurgy and Ore Beneficiation in the system of the National Academy of Sciences for the last 45 years. He is the author of 300 scientific works, five monographics, 60 inventions in the USSR and in the Republic of Kazakhstan, and ten patents in leading foreign countries.

Recipient PhotoElnar Kenzhaliyev

Biography: Elnar Kenzhaliyev is a senior scientist at the Laboratory of Oxide and Metallic Melts at the Institute of Metallurgy and Ore Beneficiation. He earned an M.S. from Kazkh National Technical University in 2000 and a Ph.D. from the Institute of Metallurgy and Ore Beneficiation in 2002.

“TMS is the largest society of metallurgists and scientists in the world. That is why the publication and high appraisal of our papers in the field of copper pyrometallurgy, in particular the Vanyukov’s process, is an honor for us. Also it is a motivation for us to propose further research in this direction.”

— Sultanbek Kozhakhmetov for the Extraction & Processing Technology Award Winners

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