reporter: Professor Mari Lundstrom, Aalto University (Espoo,Finland)

Report Time: May 7, 2018. 15:00-17:00

Title:“Battery Metal Ecosystem – towards true metal circular economy”

report time: Monday, May 07, 2018, 15:00-17:00

Report location: Room 301, Metallurgical Hall, Central South University

Professor Lundstrom, from 2009 to 2015, worked at Outotec R&D Center, where he served as a researcher and project manager. In 2015, he was appointed as a professor at Aalto University and was appointed as the leader of the hydrometallurgical research group. In March 2018, he was appointed as a guest at Central South University. professor. The main research directions are hydrometallurgy, metal corrosion, resource recycling and so on. In the past three years, he has obtained more than 20 scientific research projects with a total funding of more than 2.5 million euros; published nearly 100 high-level scientific research papers; served as a member of the editorial board of the journal Physicochemica Problems of Mineral Processing, and a reviewer of several SCI journals.

reporter: Professor Ari Jokilaakso, Aalto University (Espoo, Finland)

Title: "Feed and product particle behavior in the Flash Smelting and Flash Converting processes"

report time:Tuesday, May 08, 2018, 10:00-11:40

Report location: Room 301, Metallurgical Hall, Central South University

Professor Jokilaakso, graduated from Helsinki University of Technology in 1992 with the best doctoral thesis award; from 1989 to 1999, he worked as a research assistant, researcher and senior researcher at Helsinki University of Technology; from 1999 to 2016, he worked at Outotec. The center has served as project manager, vice president, senior vice president, president, etc.; in September 2016, he was appointed as a professor at Aalto University, deputy head of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Metallurgy, head of the metallurgical research group; and employed in mid-South China in March 2018. Visiting professor at the university. The main research direction is CFD calculation, computer simulation of metallurgical process. So far, a total of 135 high-level research papers and conference papers have been published.

reporter: Professor Pekka Antero Taskinen, Aalto University

Title: "Distributions of battery trace elements in Ni smelting"

report time: Tuesday, May 08, 2018, 15:00-17:00

Report location: Room 301, Metallurgical Hall, Central South University

Professor Taskinen, worked at Outotec R&D Center from 1983 to 2006, worked as a R&D engineer, technical manager, vice president of fire law, and senior technical director. In 2007, he was appointed professor of Aalto University as a member of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Deputy Head of Department, leader of the pyrometallurgical research group; in 2012, he was appointed as a visiting professor at Central South University. The main research directions are metallurgical thermodynamics, metallurgical dynamics, refractory corrosion and so on. Professor Pekka is a member of internationally renowned organizations such as ASM, ACS, TMS, FAMME, and editors and reviewers of many SCI journals.