IDALSA’s continuous concern to reduce its waste, following the best available technologies that allow us to continue contributing to the sustainable development of the aluminium recovery activity, has taken a new step by signing a Collaboration Agreement with the Canadian company KPM (Kingston Process Metallurgy Inc) whose recent projects on stabilisation, recycling and recovery of aluminium secondary materials were analysed in REWAS 08.
The Agreement with KPM aims to examine, analyse, simulate and propose to IDALSA alternative R&D processes that improve the profitability of the current facilities. KPM has a team of professionals and scientists with proven experience and specialised technology.
Boyd Davis*, a KPM computational thermochemistry specialist, has been working at IDALSA’s facilities to understand our technological and operational processes and parameterise reaction mechanism indicators. Obtaining the current information allows the modelling of the various improvement alternatives to be brought into line with reality. The associated aim is the reduction of greenhouse gases and the protection of the ozone layer.
*Boyd Davis is co-founder of KPM. He is a graduate of Queen’s University with a B.Sc. in Engineering Chemistry and a Masters and Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering. Boyd has worked as a consultant since 1998 in the area of computational thermochemistry and process development, before founding KPM. Boyd is also an adjunct professor in the Mining Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Departments at Queen’s, where he collaborates with professors, lectures, and supervises thesis projects. He has authored over 20 technical papers. Boyd is active with the Metallurgical Society of CIM and was awarded the Past Presidents’ Memorial Medal in 2001 for service to the society.
