Advance Member:	$15.00
Advance Nonmember:	$125.00
Advance Student:	$15.00
Late/onsite Member:	$25.00
Late/onsite Nonmember:	$175.00
Late-/onsite Student:	$125.00

10th Annual Lead Free Solder and Interconnect Technology Workshop

Through presentations and extensive discussion regarding key topics, this workshop will provide a bridge between companies, academic research groups, national laboratories, and consortia and will lead to the materials science fundamentals necessary for further understanding and future industry applications. The workshop will be focused on 3D packaging technology and other important issues. The applications of Pb-free solder in green technology will be addressed.

Workshop Topics:

• 3D packaging technology and TSV from an industry and academic point of view
• Pb-free applications in green technology
• Reliability in consumer electronics
• Solder and interconnects in extreme environment
• Future directions in new solder alloy compositions
• Mechanics of deformation in Pb-free solder joints
• Pb-free board assembly related issues and solutions

Advance Member:	$525.00
Advance Nonmember:	$575.00
Advance Student:	$300.00
Late/onsite Member:	$600.00
Late/onsite Nonmember:	$650.00
Late-/onsite Student:	$350.00

Fundamentals of Friction Stir Welding and Processing

Friction stir welding (FSW) was invented by TWI, Cambridge, UK and patented in 1991. In the last twenty years, the research community has made significant advances in understanding of the process, and numerous industrial applications have been taken to full implementation. During the same period friction stir processing (FSP) has been developed in parallel with FSW, and essentially employs FSW tooling to perform local thermomechanical treatments rather than to make joints.

The scientific and technical literature is rich with information on joining of aluminum, steel, titanium, magnesium, metal matrix composites, and even superalloys as well as generic information on process fundamentals. The goal of this course is to provide participants with the essence of the accumulated FSW/FSP knowledge: both fundamental and practical. This course is designed to provide a basic understanding of the process and the linkage to performance by introducing aspects from basic process design, controls, tools, and metallurgical aspects. The course will culminate with a demonstration and discussion of how various elements of the course link together.

Fundamentals of Friction Stir Welding and Processing

Tony Reynolds is a chaired, full professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Carolina. Reynolds obtained his PhD in Materials Science from the University of Virginia in 1990. Since 1998 his research group has been working in the areas of friction stir welding and processing (FSW/P). Since 2004, Reynolds has been the site director at USC for a multi-University NSF I/UCRC, The Center for Friction Stir Processing. Reynolds' group has published more than 70 ISI articles on FSW/P which articles have garnered over 2000 citations.

Emphases of the group's research include FSW process development for aluminum alloys, steels, and titanium as well as characterization of weld performance and process simulation. The group is also currently investigating other friction-based, solid-state, materials processing techniques. In addition to his academic research, Reynolds has also served as a consultant to SKB (The Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company) for their FSW process development for sealing of copper nuclear waste containers.

Yuri Hovanski is currently a Research Engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He earned a B.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering at Brigham Young University, and then completed his M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering at Washington State University. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honors Society, and actively participates in AWS and TMS serving on the forming and shaping, as well as joining committees. He has participated in friction stir related research for more than a decade investigating weld formability, abnormal grain growth, and the influence of post-weld microstructure and texture on mechanical properties.

More recently, he has focused on the development of low-cost solutions for friction stir welding, introducing cost efficient solutions for thermal telemetry, new tool materials and production techniques for friction stir spot welding tooling, and utilizing thermo-hydrogen processing to aid friction stir welding of titanium alloys. He continues this effort today furthering the capability of friction stir spot welding in a variety of advanced high strength steel alloys, and recently introducing scribed tooling that enables lap welding of highly dissimilar materials. He actively reviews friction stir related literature for several publications and has documented his work in more than 25 publications.

Fundamentals of Friction Stir Welding and Processing

Session 1 (9:00 a.m.-Noon)

• Overview of friction stir welding and examples of adoptions; highlights and issues –20 minutes
• Fundamentals of the friction stir process- part I; process parameters – 45 minutes
• Break- 15 minutes
• Fundamental of friction stir process- part II; material flow and microstructural evolution – 45 minutes
• Break- 15 minutes
• Fundamental of friction stir process- part III; history of tool development – 40 minutes

Lunch Break (Noon-1:00 p.m.)

Session 2 (1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.)

• Weld configurations and tool selection; gaps and mismatches – 40 minutes
• Low Temperature Metals -55 minutes
• Break- 15 minutes
• High Temperature materials -55 minutes
• Break -15 minutes
• Derivative Technologies-30 minutes
• Discussion- 30 minutes

Advance Member:	$525.00
Advance Nonmember:	$575.00
Advance Student:	$300.00
Late/onsite Member:	$600.00
Late/onsite Nonmember:	$650.00
Late-/onsite Student:	$350.00

* Registration fees include a continental breakfast, breaks, and lunch

Furnace Systems Technology Workshop

Reduce costs, improve quality, and increase throughput with a thorough understanding of casting furnaces. This course is a comprehensive review of furnace technology and cast shop practices for improving efficiency, quality, and productivity while minimizing emissions and waste. Speakers for each topic are experts in their field to help you understand and improve your operation.

Presentation topics will include:

• Basics of Combustion and Environmental Considerations
• Typical Burners Used in Aluminum Cast Houses
• Blowers/Exhausters
• Dioxin and Furan Issues
• Refractory Selection for Aluminum Furnaces
• High Efficiency Aluminum Melting in Reverberatory Furnaces and . . . True ROI
• Metal Circulation
• Principles and Fundamentals of Tilting Rotary Furnace Operation
• Aluminum Oxidation in Liquid Metal Furnaces"

Furnace Systems Technology Workshop

The course is directed toward cast shop supervisors/managers, technical support, and engineers who work with casting furnaces.

Advance Member:	$525.00
Advance Nonmember:	$575.00
Advance Student:	$300.00
Late/onsite Member:	$600.00
Late/onsite Nonmember:	$650.00
Late-/onsite Student:	$350.00

* Registration fees include a continental breakfast, breaks, and lunch

Grain Refinement of Aluminum and Magnesium Alloys: Theory and Practice

Grain refinement is a melt treatment procedure to achieve an equiaxed grain structure of DC cast ingots and shape castings. An equiaxed grain structure facilitates fabrication and improves the yield of wrought products and the soundness of castings. To achieve efficient grain refinement, knowledge is required about the grain refinement mechanisms, the different types of grain refiners, the grain refinement treatment process and the methods for the determination of the grain refinement result, i.e. the grain size. Benefits of the course include transfer of knowledge to enable reduction in grain refiner costs and achievement of consistent high-quality cast products. The importance of grain refiner to control of cracking defects will also be discussed.

Learn About

• Fundamentals of nucleation and grain growth
• Fundamentals of grain refinement with TiB2 and TiC for aluminum and Zr for magnesium alloys
• Grain refiner alloys, grain refiner tests and grain size measurement
• Influence of grain refinement on product quality
• Practice of grain refinement in DC casting and shape casting
• Influence of casting conditions on grain refinement

Grain Refinement of Aluminum and Magnesium Alloys: Theory and Practice

This course is intended for technical and operations personnel involved in primary and secondary cast houses and shape casting of aluminium and magnesium. The course will also be of benefit to university researchers and grain refiner producers.

Greg Hildeman is the Vice President Technology of AMG Aluminum and is responsible for development of grain refiners, master alloy hardeners, and specialty alloys. He has over 30 years of experience in the aluminum industry. Prior to joining AMG Aluminum, Dr. Hildeman was the Manager of the Molten Metal Processing Division at Alcoa's Technical Center. He was responsible for leading Alcoa's worldwide ingot technology research activities in the areas of recycling, melting, alloying, grain refinement, metal treatment, casting and solidification. Dr. Hildeman received a Sc.D. in Metallurgy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has Masters and Bachelor degrees in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin. In 2004, he was President of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS).

Alan Luo is Professor of Materials Science & Engineering and of Integrated Systems Engineering (Manufacturing) at The Ohio State University (OSU). Prior to joining OSU in July 2013, Dr. Luo was GM Technical Fellow at General Motors Research and Development Center with more than 20 years of industrial experience in light metals. Dr. Luo has 15 patents and more than 170 technical publications in alloy development and advanced manufacturing. Dr. Luo received the ASM (American Society of Metals) Materials Science Research Silver Medal in 2008 and Fellow Award in 2013, and USCAR (United States Council for Automotive Research) Special Recognition Award in 2009. He has also received the 2013 Brimacombe Medalist Award from TMS (The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society). Dr. Luo's research is also recognized by several Best Paper awards from TMS, SAE (Society for Automotive Engineers) and AFS (American Foundry Society).

Wolfgang Schneider is head of the research and development (R&D) center of Hydro Aluminium Deutschland GmbH in Bonn, Germany. He started his career with the company more than 26 years ago. Before taking over responsibility for the R&D center in 2002, Dr. Schneider was head of the casting and recycling department. He is also a professor of metallurgy at the Technical University of Berlin. Dr. Schneider's research interests include D.C. casting, filtration, modelling, alloy development, and engine casting. He received his doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin in metallurgy.

Peter Schumacher holds the Chair of Casting Research at the University of Leoben and is the managing director of the Austrian Foundry Research Institute in Leoben, Austria. His academic career has been in close collaboration with the aluminium industry, including Alcan Int. Banbury and LSM Rotherham United Kingdom, and led to an advanced EPSRC research fellowship at the University of Oxford. His research interests include D.C. and shape casting, grain refinement and modification of casting alloys, light alloy development, and melt metallurgy. He received his doctorate in materials science in 1994 from the University of Cambridge.

David St. John is the Director of the Centre of Advanced Materials Processing and Manufacturing (AMPAM) at the University of Queensland. He has a long record of research in the grain refinement of the light alloys aluminum, magnesium and titanium. He has also worked with industry in collaborative research programs such as the CAST Cooperative Research Centre, which Professor StJohn led until 2008. His major research interests are in the grain refinement and hot tearing of aluminium and magnesium alloys. Professor StJohn is a graduate of the University of Queensland.

Advance Member:	$325.00
Advance Nonmember:	$375.00
Advance Student:	$100.00
Late/onsite Member:	$400.00
Late/onsite Nonmember:	$450.00
Late-/onsite Student:	$150.00

* Registration fees include a continental breakfast, breaks, and lunch

Neutron and X-Rays: Tutorial on Sources, Instrumentation, and Scattering

Part I: Neutrons and X-rays―Sources, Instrumentation, and Scattering, by Rozaliya Barabash and Klaus-Dieter Liss.

Part II: Diffraction from nanostructured materials, by Luca Gelisio and Paolo Scardi

This two part tutorial will review neutrons and X-rays, including sources, instrumentation, theories of scattering and diffraction, concept of reciprocal space, Ewald construction, dynamic and kinematic theory, limit to small crystals, nanocrystals, lattice gradients. It will explain some fundamentals of line profile analysis, with basic facts on nanoparticles - their shapes and most typical properties - restricting the attention to the simplest case of metal systems. The state-of-the-art diffraction analysis of defects will be introduced in the tutorial.

How and why nanocrystals produce broad diffraction profiles, and a quick introduction to the Scherrer equation - where it comes from - will also be covered. In addition, the differences between the two basic paradigms used to deal with nanocrystalline materials in powder diffraction - in Reciprocal Space (traditional approach) and in Direct Space (according to the Debye scattering equation) - will be discussed.

Details of how to build a credible model of a nanocrystal will be considered, as well as the importance of using an atomistic point of view to assess, e.g., by Molecular Dynamics simulations, some crystal properties. Examples and possibilities of a new software implementing the Direct Space approach will conclude the tutorial.

Neutron and X-Rays: Tutorial on Sources, Instrumentation, and Scattering

Rozaliya Barabash is well recognized in diffraction analysis of defects both in the USA and internationally. She has extended experience in teaching, student supervision, user support, journal and books coeditorship, and leading conference symposia.

Klaus-Dieter Liss has 26 years of experience in both neutron and synchrotron radiation techniques. He has lectured at universities and numerous 'schools' regarding neutron and synchrotron radiation. Liss supervises students, gives user support, acts on journal editor panels, participates in professional societies, and has experience in symposium organization. Liss is currently with the Quantum Beam Science Directorate, Japan Atomic Energy Agency.

Paolo Scardi is Full Professor of Material Science and Technology, and head of the Ph.D. School in Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Trento, Italy. Author of more than 250 papers, his main interests concern diffraction and crystallography, with applications to materials science. Recent work focuses on thin films and highly deformed materials, photovoltaic devices, residual stress analysis and atomistic modelling of nanocrystalline materials.

Luca Gelisio is a Ph.D. candidate (4th year) in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Trento. His work in the past five years has been mainly focused on the development of new methods, especially based on X-ray scattering techniques, for the modeling and characterization of nanostructured materials. He is first author of four publications on peer-reviewed journals and several algorithms for X-ray scattering data interpretation, including powder diffraction and coherent scattering.

Advance Member:	$525.00
Advance Nonmember:	$575.00
Advance Student:	$300.00
Late/onsite Member:	$600.00
Late/onsite Nonmember:	$650.00
Late-/onsite Student:	$350.00

* Registration fees include a continental breakfast, breaks, and lunch

Pot Ventilation & Dry Scrubbing Operations for Aluminum Smelters

This one-day short course will focus on the operation of pot ventilation and dry scrubbers in the primary aluminium smelting industry, covering fundamentals/theory of operations, key performance indicators, best practices, and upcoming advancements in technology.

Pot Ventilation & Dry Scrubbing Operations for Aluminum Smelters

This course is for technical and environmental personnel, engineers, and managers in the primary aluminium smelting industry, who are interested in their Pot Ventilation & Dry Scrubbing (or Gas Treatment Centre) operations. The course will not only provide attendees with further understanding in how their integrated ventilation system and dry scrubbers work, but also insight into how to maximize and maintain the efficiencies of their current scrubbing installations, and what options they have for future expansions or modifications.

Pot Ventilation & Dry Scrubbing Operations for Aluminum Smelters

Breakfast- 7:30 am
Course Start- 8:30 am
Course Concludes- 4:00 pm

OVERVIEW

• Pot emissions
• Environmental regulations and permits
• History of GTCs

FLUORIDE EMISSIONS

• The Gaseous and Particulate Forms of Fluorides
• Mechanisms of Capture for both Gaseous and Particulate Fluorides

SCRUBBER DESIGNS & TECHNOLOGIES

• Dry Scrubbers: Torbed, Fluidised bed, BUT FOCUS ON Pre-injector + Bag-house Dry Scrubbers operating on Prebake smelter, NOT Soderberg (which would include PAHs)
• Wet Scrubbers: Past & Future (SOx emissions)

BASIC DRY SCRUBBER DESIGN & OPERATION (focus on Pre-injector types+ Baghouse designs)

• Key Operating Areas of the GTC
• Gas Flows
• Cell Ventilation & Pot Draft
• Gas Duct Inlets from Cells
• Gas Fans & Design
• GTC Stack & Silencers
• Alumina Flows
• Alumina Pre-Injection & Secondary Injection Points
• Primary/Secondary Alumina Recycle Ratio
• Baghouse & Bagfilters, Air-to-Cloth Ratio
• Alumina Transport – Air Slides & Air Lifts
• Alumina storage – silos
• Filtration
• Basics of filtration

KEY PARAMETERS, MAINTENANCE PRACTICES & ISSUES FOR DRY SCRUBBER

• Stack Emission Monitors – Particulate, HF, multi-channel, stack sampling
• Gas Flowrate & Gas Pressure Drops across GTC
• Ensuring Alumina Supply for Injection
• Gas Fan Performance
• Inlet Duct Gas Temperature & Considerations, Rising Line Amperage, Middle Eastern Countries, etc.
• Filter Bag Performance & Replacement
• Hard Gray Scale (Gas Ducting)
• Airslides/ Air Lifts => Fines/scale
• Silo Level Control? => Alumina fines

PRACTICAL TIPS TO EVALUATE GTC TECHNOLOGIES IN BIDDING STAGE ADVANCEMENTS & DEVELOPMENTS IN DRY SCRUBBING

• High Draft Ventilation (Principles, effect on emissions, technologies: Dual duct, single duct, jet induced)
• Extended surface filter bags
• Technologies for managing Duct Gas Temp Cooling/Heat Exchangers [HEX technology, evaporative cooling, air dilution]
• Use of multi-channel lasers for optimisation of individual GTC filter compartments
• Future requirements for SOx emissions.

GROUP DISCUSSIONS

Incorporating Life Cycle Assessment in Operational Decision-Making

Course Registration Fees* (Advance Rates Valid through January 17, 2014)

Advance Member:	$525.00
Advance Nonmember:	$575.00
Advance Student:	$300.00
Late/onsite Member:	$600.00
Late/onsite Nonmember:	$650.00
Late-/onsite Student:	$350.00

* Registration fees include a continental breakfast, breaks, and lunch

Incorporating Life Cycle Assessment in Operational Decision-Making

This one-day course will consist of two distinct sessions. The morning session will focus on providing participants an introduction to life cycle assessment approaches (including some historical context to help participants understand the current state of the field), an introduction to the ISO Standards and other guidance related to performing life cycle assessment (LCA) studies, an overview of available software tools and datasets, and an example calculation using the OpenLCA software package.

The afternoon session will focus on case studies and application of LCA in mining, mineral processing, and metal production. The case studies will specifically cover LCA of various mining methods, mineral commodities, and metal production routes within specified boundaries. Other process industries will include making of charcoal from woody biomass and application of biocarbon in metallurgy.

Incorporating Life Cycle Assessment in Operational Decision-Making

MORNING SESSION
Lead by Troy R. Hawkins, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Introduction to Life Cycle Assessment

• Brief introduction to what we can learn from life cycle assessment through the use of a case study (i.e. on electric vehicles, Hawkins et al., 2013)
• Where has LCA been used in the past?
• Where are we and how have we gotten here?

Doing an LCA

• Guidance for life cycle assessment
• International Standards Organization 14044 series
  
• Four major stages or steps of LCA
  
• Other relevant standards
• Life cycle assessment software and data
• Software: Focused on SimaPro, GaBi, and OpenLCA and including reference to others
  
• Datasets
• Process-based LCA
  
• Focused on EcoInvent, GaBi, US LCI, ELCD, AusLCI and including references to others
• Input-Output LCA
• Introduction to US datasets, OpenIO, EIOLCA, and CEDA
  
• Introduction to an international dataset, GTAP
• Data quality considerations
• What is involved in carrying out an LCA?
• Introduce example system
• Data collection templates for input in LCA software or Excel
• Data translation
• Importing to LCA software (OpenLCA)
• The structure of an LCA model
• Performing a calculation
• Basic math behind the calculation
• What to expect from the basic results?
• Inventory
• Impact categories and assessment
• Contribution analysis
• Structural path analysis
• Sensitivity and Monte Carlo analysis
• An iterative approach for improvement

Interpreting the Results

• What should we learn?
• Strengths of an LCA
• Limitations of an LCA

LCA and Sustainability in Mining and Mineral Processing (led by Nawshad Haque)

• Introduction: Sustainability in the context of mining, mineral processing, and metal production
• Resource sustainability issues and life of metals
• LCA Studies of Recycling Scenarios

How LCA Can be Used in Case Studies? (led by Nawshad Haque)

• Open-cut, underground, in-situ leaching mining method
• Iron ore, copper ore and bauxite
• Iron and steel making and biomass application in metallurgy
• Life cycle based greenhouse gas emission assessment from:
• Ferroalloys
• Gold
• Aluminium and comparison of production using various energy sources
• Environmental impact categories in LCA
• Identification of hotspots
• Improvement measures and effect on greenhouse gas emission reduction using LCA

Incorporating Life Cycle Assessment in Operational Decision-Making

Troy R. Hawkins is with the National Risk Management Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Dr. Hawkins' research focuses on the application and development of environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) and input-output models for environmental policy analysis. His current research is focused on the development of an LCA framework for incorporating sustainability considerations in decision-making. His recent projects include technology-specific life cycle assessment studies of municipal and household-scale water systems, the use of forest biomass for electricity generation, and a comparative assessment of gasoline and corn ethanol as well as contributions to the development of an open source LCA software package and the LCA Harmonization Tool for LCA data management. He earned a BS in Physics from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1999 and a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in May 2007. During his PhD studies Dr. Hawkins developed a Mixed-Unit Input-Output (MUIO) Model for life cycle assessment and material flow analysis focusing on flows of cadmium, lead, nickel, and zinc. He then worked as a researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), where he worked on the EXIOPOL Project, ‘A New Environmental Accounting Framework Using Externality Data and Input-Output Tools for Policy Analysis', an EU-Funded effort to create a global, environmentally extended, multiregional input-output (EE-MRIO) model for analysis of environmental impacts and external costs of production and consumption. He also contributed to two other studies, the first integrating carbon, land, and water footprinting methods within the multi-regional input-output framework conducted under the EU funded OPEN EU Project, and the second, an environmental assessment of electric vehicles funded by the Norwegian Research Council.

Nawshad Haque is a Senior Scientist and a Research Team Leader of CSIRO's life cycle assessment (LCA) and techno-economic evaluation team in Process Science and Engineering Division. He works on process flowsheet modelling, economic and environmental evaluation of process systems for mining, mineral processing, and metal-making industries using various tools, databases, and software. Dr Haque also leads the Environmental LCA Project in Minerals Down Under Flagship. Dr. Haque has extensively studied LCA of iron and steel making. He studied LCA of underground, open-cut, heap leaching, in-situ leaching mining methods, and the extraction of iron ore, bauxite, copper, gold, nickel, and uranium ores. He has completed LCA of other metals such as aluminium, magnesium, ferroalloy, gold, and nickel to identify opportunities for CO2 emission reduction. He evaluated new opportunities such as biomass-derived charcoal application in steel making with fossil coal blends to reduce environmental impact. He also evaluated application of biocoke, bioanode, biopitch in aluminium metallurgy using LCA tools and techno-economic considerations. Based on these studies, he produced numerous research reports and also published papers that have been used internally in CSIRO and by various external industry groups. Dr. Haque commenced work as a Materials Scientist at New Zealand Forest Research Institute. Later, he was seconded to CSIRO Ensis at Clayton, where he conducted research on primary industries, wood, biomass drying modelling, simulation, and optimisation. In July 2007, he joined CPSE as a Process Modeller. Dr. Haque has been awarded a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from The University of Sydney in 2002. For more information: www.csiro.au/people/Nawshad.Haque.html or users.tpg.com.au/nawshadul.

Proper Anode Baking Furnace Operation – How and Why

Course Registration Fees* (Advance Rates Valid through January 17, 2014)

Advance Member:	$525.00
Advance Nonmember:	$575.00
Advance Student:	$300.00
Late/onsite Member:	$600.00
Late/onsite Nonmember:	$650.00
Late-/onsite Student:	$350.00

* Registration fees include a continental breakfast, breaks, and lunch

Proper Anode Baking Furnace Operations: How and Why

Proper anode baking is essential for optimum potroom operations. If anodes are not baked properly, negative consequences such as dusting, cracking, airburning, and soft butts will occur. This course will teach how open top ring furnace(s) should be operated to bake anodes properly and avoid these potential issues while minimizing fuel consumption. In addition, attendees will develop a basic understanding of the principles behind proper operations. Ever wondered about the difference between the preheating and baking sections? How to eliminate smoking flues? How to minimize operating costs and maximize furnace life? What the proper flue gas temperature targets should be? What the proper amount of furnace draft should be? These questions and many, many more will be answered during the lecture and discussion sessions of this course.

Topics will include:

• Introduction
• Packing
• Sealing
• Firing
• Draft Control
• Baked Anode Cooling
• Unpacking Baked Anodes
• Opacity/Smoking Flues
• Holding a Fire
• Firing the Crossover

Proper Anode Baking Furnace Operations: How and Why

The course is directed toward plant managers, anode area managers, process engineers, technical managers, and baking furnace supervisors.

Radiation Effects in Oxide Ceramics and Novel LWR Fuels

Course Registration Fees* (Advance Rates Valid through January 17, 2014)

Advance Member:	$525.00
Advance Nonmember:	$575.00
Advance Student:	$300.00
Late/onsite Member:	$600.00
Late/onsite Nonmember:	$650.00
Late-/onsite Student:	$350.00

* Registration fees include a continental breakfast, breaks, and lunch

Radiation Effects in Oxide Ceramics and Novel LWR Fuels

Oxide ceramics have many applications in current or future reactors. For example, uranium dioxide (UO2) is the primary nuclear fuel in light-water reactors. Other oxide ceramics have been proposed for novel inert matrix fuels or have been extensively studied as potential waste forms for the immobilization of nuclear waste. Like many other materials, oxide ceramics can also be damaged by irradiation. In this short course, Prof. Kurt Sickafus from the University of Tennessee will give a short course to introduce radiation effects in a wide range of oxide ceramics such asUO2, CeO2 and other fluorite derivatives, and model oxides such as MgO and various spinel compounds.

Topical Outline:

• Applications of oxide ceramics in current and future reactors
• Crystal structures of oxides
• Radiation damage mechanisms in oxide ceramics
• Characterization of radiation-induced defects and microstructural evolution in oxide ceramics
• Changes in materials properties due to irradiation
• Future research directions in this area

Radiation Effects in Oxide Ceramics and Novel LWR Fuels

This course contains both a high-level introduction and detailed technical information regarding radiation damage effects in oxides. Therefore, this short course will be a good introduction for undergraduate and graduate students, or any other people who are interested in nuclear materials. It may also be useful for experienced researchers from national laboratories, universities, and nuclear industry, who would like to know more about the cutting-edge research in this area.

Radiation Effects in Oxide Ceramics and Novel LWR Fuels

Kurt Sickafus is the Alvin and Sally Beaman Professor and Department Head in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Tennessee. He has been an experimental researcher in the field of materials science for about 34 years, investigating structure and properties in metals, polymers, and ceramics, in bulk, thin-film, and composite forms. He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1978 (BA in Physics & Mathematics), and received his Ph.D. degree from Cornell University in 1985 (Materials Science & Engineering). Dr. Sickafus also worked as a postdoctoral research assistant in the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge (1985-1987) and as a staff member at I.B.M. (1987-88) before joining Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1989. He worked as a Staff Scientist at Los Alamos for 22 years before moving to the U. of Tennessee in 2011.

Sustainability and Minerals Resources

Course Registration Fees* (Advance Rates Valid through January 17, 2014)

Advance Member:	$525.00
Advance Nonmember:	$575.00
Advance Student:	$300.00
Late/onsite Member:	$600.00
Late/onsite Nonmember:	$650.00
Late-/onsite Student:	$350.00

* Registration fees include a continental breakfast, breaks, and lunch

Sustainability and Mineral Resources

Minerals and rocks derived from the Earth provide many of the materials needed by society, yet their production and consumption produces large quantities of wastes. Furthermore, the Earth's resources are finite and its ecosystems have finite capacities to cope with the wastes produced by human production and consumption. The local and global challenges caused by the unprecedented levels of production, and the associated consumption of resources and disposal of wastes, will grow as living standards in China, India, Brazil and other countries continue to rise. The concept of Sustainable Development arose in response to these and other environmental and social issues. The non-renewable nature of mineral resources poses unique challenges for sustainability.

This course will examine the development of the concept of sustainability, particularly its environmental aspects, and how the minerals industry is responding to the challenges posed by sustainability. The types and quantities of wastes produced during the mining and processing of minerals will be examined and the modern approaches for managing these wastes will be reviewed. Mining and processing are energy intensive and the usage of energy in the industry will be examined. Strategies for reducing, and ultimately, eliminating wastes produced during mining and processing will be examined and examples of recent developments will be discussed. Finally, how the industry can capture the opportunities presented as well as contribute positively to the transition to sustainability will be discussed.

Sustainability and Mineral Resources

This course is aimed at:

• Mining and processing professionals who want a deeper understanding of the concept of sustainability and its implications for finite resources
• Professionals in mining and/or environment–related service industries and government agencies
• Researchers and students with an interest in the field of sustainability and the resource industry

Participants will gain a greater appreciation of the nature of sustainability, its implications for the minerals industry and the opportunities and challenges for the industry during the transition to sustainability.

Sustainability and Mineral Resources

1. An introduction to the concept of sustainability

• the environmental, social and historical context
• definitions of sustainability; weak and strong sustainability; sustainability frameworks
• a conceptual model of sustainability

2. The mineral industry's response to sustainability

• the Global Mining Initiative and formation of the ICMM
• sustainability reporting; the Global Reporting Initiative

3. Mining and processing wastes

• wastes and the materials cycle
• types and impacts of wastes; direct and indirect wastes
• solid, liquid and gaseous wastes – strategies and technologies for storage and disposal

4. Use of energy in primary production

• concepts of direct and indirect energy, gross energy requirement, embodied energy
• values of embodied energy in production of mineral and metal commodities
• the minerals industry and global warming
• implications of declining ore grade and quality on energy consumption

5. Towards zero waste in primary production

• the concept of waste; the waste hierarchy
• the historical approach to wastes
• the Cleaner Production approach
• wastes as raw materials; examples include red mud, fly ash, flotation tailings
• waste reduction through re-engineering, including examples
• principles of industrial ecology, including examples
• barriers and drivers to waste reduction/elimination

6. Towards sustainability

• the concept of stewardship
• an integrated stewardship model

Sustainability and Mineral Resources

John Rankin is a metallurgist by background with a B.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Queensland, Australia. He has worked mainly in academia and research organisations and has an extensive knowledge of the minerals industry. He has lectured in metallurgy and chemical engineering at the University of Stellenbosh (South Africa) and the University of Waterloo (Canada) and has worked for MINTEK in South Africa, Comalco Limited, and CSIRO (Australia's national research organisation). He was Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne for five years and Foundation Director of the G K Williams Cooperative Research Centre for Extractive Metallurgy. Until 2008 he was Chief Scientist of the CSIRO Division of Minerals. He is the author of over 150 papers. Rankin has had an active research interest in sustainability and its implications for non-finite resources for over ten years and has published extensively in this field. He authored the book Minerals, Metals and Sustainability: Meeting future material needs (2011), on which some of the content of this short course is based. He chaired the Green Processing 2002 and 2004 conferences of the AusIMM and recently edited the two-volume publication Australasian Mining and Metallurgical Operating Practices, published by the AusIMM.

Theory of Constraints: Tools, Tactics for Business Value in Aluminum Smelters and Other Process Industries

Course Registration Fees* (Advance Rates Valid through January 17, 2014)

Advance Member:	$525.00
Advance Nonmember:	$575.00
Advance Student:	$300.00
Late/onsite Member:	$600.00
Late/onsite Nonmember:	$650.00
Late-/onsite Student:	$350.00

* Registration fees include a continental breakfast, breaks, and lunch

Theory of Constraints: Tools and Tactics for Creating Business Value in Aluminum Smelters and Other Process Industries

Faced with increasing input costs, downward price pressure, and higher quality and delivery demands, leaders of aluminum smelters need clarity and focus and an effective pathway to improvement. They must address three questions: What to change? What to change to? How to cause change? Using a factory simulation based on an aluminum smelter, we will introduce, examine, and test the principles and tactics of Theory of Constraints and show how it provides a means of addressing these three critical questions.

Theory of Constraints (TOC) is a management approach developed by Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt during the early 80s and introduced through the novel The Goal, initially published in 1984. Dr. Goldratt, an Israeli physicist, used scientific methods to unravel and explain the common phenomenon observed in factories that limit their ability to achieve their goals, specifically throughput. Goldratt's findings, often described as the "physics of factory flow" state that the total flow of the business is determined by only a few critical factors. They are the key focal points or constraints of the system.

TOC states that any operation is composed of a number of subsystems. If each of these subsystems is optimized individually, overall company performance is not likely to be improved because such an approach doesn't take into account how subsystems interact and the impact on the overall system.

The central idea of TOC lies in the identification and exploitation of the system constraint in improving a system. Understanding the system constraints (and non-constraints) enables leaders to effectively address the interaction of variation and dependency in our business processes and how they combine to create chaos and damage process performance. Secondly, TOC provides very clear focus for prioritizing variation reduction and the strategic use of inventory and protective capacity to manage and improve system performance.

To most effectively manage system performance, TOC drives us to rethink:

• The way we set goals (global optimization versus local optimization)
• The measures we use and therefore the questions we ask (the way we measure the constraint in a system is different than the way we measure non-constraints)
• How we focus our actions to manage process performance (improvement at the constraint has a different focus than improvement in non-constraints)
• How and where we focus our actions and limited resources to improve system (global) performance (variation reduction is not equal across the entire system, and further, improvement actions in the constraint differ from those in non-constraints)

Applied diligently, TOC principles have demonstrated the following benefits for an organization:

• Increase the ability to achieve the system's goal—for manufacturers, that means increased net profits and return on investment now and in the future
• Increase system throughput, such as ensuring an uninterrupted supply of rodded anodes to Potrooms
• Reduce dependency on inventory such as green and baked stocks and the associated cost of managing these inventories
• Provide a pathway for the control or reduction of operating expenses
• Dramatically diminish the level of chaos in operations
• Give personnel more time and ability to analyze and resolve day-to-day problems

After attending this course, participants will:

• Be able to map the system (such as carbon from raw material to rodded anodes), identify the system constraint and develop plans to lift the performance of the constraint and therefore, the entire system.
• Know how to apply TOC to add focus and clarity to daily management
• Know how to use TOC analysis to add clarity and focus for improvement efforts, leading to faster, more durable results
• Understand how to use TOC buffer management tactics to lift system performance and trigger improvement actions

Theory of Constraints: Tools and Tactics for Creating Business Value in Aluminum Smelters and Other Process Industries

This short course is targeted for persons in operations, technical and business improvement roles, accountable for system results and improving system performance. Because of its broad application, this short course will also be of value to persons outside of the aluminum industry.

Theory of Constraints: Tools and Tactics for Creating Business Value in Aluminum Smelters and Other Process Industries

Keith Sinclair
After 10 years working in industrial engineering, operations and business improvement roles with ALCOA, Keith founded Sinclair Associates Inc. in 1986. Keith has 30 years of experience helping businesses master their operations and achieve maximum results from their process improvement efforts. Recognizing the shortcomings of a single-focus approach to operational excellence, Keith has refined and integrated a set of mutually reinforcing principals, methods, and tools into the business process improvement strategy, "Integrated Process Management." He has taught and facilitated the introduction of Integrated Process Management in a wide range of manufacturing and processing industries including aluminum and steel fabrication and casting, smelting, recycling, machine tool manufacturing, printed circuit board manufacturing, manufacture of automotive, computer and electrical components, surface and underground mining and processing operations, plastic extrusion and injection molding, and insurance and medical service providers. His client list includes small, privately held companies to large international firms, with clients in the USA, Europe, Asia, Australia, South America and Southern Africa.

Ed Hill
Ed joined the Sinclair Associates team in 2012. Ed has extensive experience as a professional business consultant with numerous companies in a myriad of industries to apply Synchronous Flow and Lean Manufacturing techniques within organizations of all sizes. Prior to full-time business consulting, he served as Director of the Clemson University Apparel Research Center, which allowed him to travel the world in search of the most effective manufacturing systems. Ed has worked directly with Dr. Eli Goldratt, author of The Goal, on a number of projects related to teaching and implementing the Theory of Constraints. Ed is the author of Basics of Supply Chain Management, St. Lucie Press, 2001, and numerous articles on business process flow approaches.

Barry Sadler
Barry is a business consultant specializing in carbon and metallurgical processes. In 2002, he established Net Carbon Consulting Pty Ltd, a carbon technology consultancy aimed at helping clients reduce the cost and improve the sustainability of operations by improving the effectiveness of carbon production/utilization and better process management. Work undertaken has included plant audits and reviews, running specialized training sessions, troubleshooting plant operating problems, process/plant upgrade design work, advising suppliers, implementing process management systems, and providing training/coaching on the application statistical thinking and methods to plant projects.

While serving as General Manager – Technical for Comalco Aluminium (now Rio Tinto Alcan), Barry played a key leadership role in the introduction and implementation of Comalco's operational excellence initiative, "In Control, Then Capable," an adaptation of Integrated Process Management. It is here where Barry started his working relationship with Sinclair Associates, Inc., the lead consultants for this work. Since 2005, Barry has joined with Sinclair Associates Inc. to bring his expertise to the application of Integrated Process Improvement to the operations of various mining, minerals processing and metals industry clients.