Prof Aubrey Mainza

Professor, Deputy Director for the Centre for Minerals Research

Qualifications:

  • BSc Metallurgy and Mineral Processing, University of Zambia (1998)
  • PhD Mechanical Engineering, University of Cape Town (2006)

Undergraduate Teaching:

  • CHE3006F (Mass Transfer Operations)
  • CHE4045Z (Chemical Engineering Project)
  • CHE4069F (Mineral and Metallurgical Processing II)

Postgraduate Teaching:

  • Supervises Masters and PhD candidate

Professional Affiliations:

  • Member, South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
  • President, Global Comminution Collaborative
  • Chairman – International Comminution Researchers Association

Research Affiliations:

  • Centre for Minerals Research (CMR)

Research Interests:

  • Comminution Modelling
  • Classification Modelling
  • Mineral Processing Circuit Design
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics and Discrete Element Methods
  • Particle Tracking using the Positron Emission Particle Tracking systems