DR. DAVID G. C. ROBERTSON
PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF METALLURGICAL ENGINEERING
MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
(until 2008 University of Missouri-Rolla)
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
222 McNutt Hall
1400 North Bishop
ROLLA, MISSOURI 65409-0340
PHONE: (573) 341-4709
FAX: (573) 341- 6934
E-Mail: davidrob@mst.edu
BRIEF CURRICULUM VITAE
July 2015
Personal Particulars
Age:
Date of Birth:
Marital Status:
Academic Qualifications
B.Sc. (Eng.)
Ph.D.
73 years
December 29, 1941
Married
1st Class Honors in Metallurgy
Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, 1963
Awarded for a research thesis on "Heterogeneous
Reactions between Liquid Metals and Gases,"
University of New South Wales, Australia, 1968
Academic Appointments
March 2008 – present
February 1986 – March 2008
January 1982 – January 1986
January 1969 – December 1982
January 1965 – December 1968
December 1963 - December 1964
Professor Emeritus
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Professor of Metallurgical Engineering
University of Missouri-Rolla
Reader in Process Metallurgy
Imperial College
Lecturer in Process Metallurgy
Imperial College
BHP Scholar, Research Student
University of New South Wales
Teaching Fellow
University of New South Wales
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Administrative Appointments
January 1986 – August 1996
Director, Center for Pyrometallurgy
University of Missouri-Rolla
Prizes and Honors
Salter Prize, Imperial College, 1963
Mid-American State Universities Association Honors Lecturer, 1987-88
EPD Distinguished Lecturer Award, TMS, 2008
The TMS Extractive and Processing Division Distinguished Lecture Award, established in 1955,
recognizes an eminent individual in the field of the extraction and processing of non-ferrous metals with an
invitation to present a comprehensive lecture at the TMS Annual Meeting.
J.F. Elliott Lecturer Award, AIST, 2010
The AIST John F. Elliott Lectureship was established in 1990. This honorary lectureship is designed to
acquaint students and engineers with the exciting opportunities in chemical process metallurgy, and
inspire them to pursue careers in this field. The citation for the award to Dr. Robertson reads: “For
application of process modeling to steel refining technology, and for advances in quantitative analysis of
metallurgical processes.”
CAREER SUMMARY
Teaching, Research, and Administration
Dr. Robertson graduated from Imperial College, London, in 1963, and then
attended the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, where he obtained his
Ph.D. in 1968. He joined the faculty at Imperial College on completion of his Ph.D. and
remained there until 1986, when he accepted the position of Professor of Metallurgical
Engineering and Director of the Center for Pyrometallurgy at the University of
Missouri-Rolla (since 2008 the Missouri University of Science and Technology).
Dr. Robertson has had a wide variety of teaching, research, and administrative
experience since receiving his doctorate in 1968. His teaching duties have covered a
range of courses from "Introductory Materials for Engineers" to "Transport Phenomena
in Extractive Metallurgy”. His major emphasis has been in teaching the application of
engineering principles to metallurgical processes for smelting, refining, and
solidification. His research work has been concentrated in the same area, including
research into the fluid mechanics of processes such as gas injection into melts, gas jet
atomization of liquid metals, and the production of ferro-alloys. Dr. Robertson has also
worked on thermodynamic measurements in melts, gas-solid reactions, and
mathematical modeling.
At the University of Missouri-Rolla, Dr. Robertson was responsible for all aspects
of running the Generic Mineral Technology Center for Pyrometallurgy until October
1996. This was a national center for university-based research funded through the
United States Bureau of Mines, with a budget of about a million dollars per annum.
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A feature of Dr. Robertson’s work has been the maintenance of close contact
with industry, and a number of contracts have been carried out for companies in the
areas of both metal powder production and smelting and refining. These companies
involved have included:
Falconbridge
Berry Metals
The Doe Run Company
Quemetco
Warrenton Resources
Big River Zinc
Elkem/Eramet
Mintek
BHPBilliton
Anglo Platinum
Dr. Robertson has organized two successful international conferences
sponsored by the Center -- in 1986 at Purdue University on "Gas-Solid Reactions in
Pyrometallurgy" (52 participants) and in 1988 at the University of Utah on "Flash
Reaction Processes" (70 participants).
Other Pertinent Experience
OUTSIDE LECTURES AND VISITS, since 2005
Dr. Robertson has traveled to Mexico, South Africa, Canada, Norway, Australia,
England, Japan, China and India to give lectures, take part in Conferences, and visit
companies. From July to December 2006, Dr. Robertson worked at the BHP Billiton
Newcastle Technology Center, as a Senior Principal Engineer in the Technical
Marketing Team. In 2008 he visited Anglo Platinum for six weeks and Tohoku
University for four months. In 2009 he was a Visiting Professor at the University of
Science and Technology Beijing (USTB) for two weeks and at Chongqing University
(CQU) for two months. In 2009-10 Dr. Robertson was Visiting Professor at IIT Kanpur
in India for five months. He also made short visits to USTB and CQU as a Visiting
Professor from 2010 to 2014.
CONSULTANCY
Consulting work in the United States and Canada has been undertaken for a
number of companies and government agencies. Work during 2008-13 has been
carried out for a number of companies including the Doe Run Company, Xstrata Nickel
(was Falconbridge), US Steel, Alcoa, and Anglo Platinum Limited. Dr. Robertson has
taught short courses on FactSage and METSIM at a number of companies and
Universities, including Umicore (Belgium, 2011), US Steel (2008), Missouri S&T (2011),
BHPBilliton (Australia, 2008), and IIT Kanpur (India, 2010).
RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS, DR. DAVID G. C. ROBERTSON
N. H. El-Kaddah and D. G. C. Robertson, "Equilibria in Reactions of CO and CO 2 with
Dissolved Oxygen and Carbon in Liquid Iron," Metall. Trans. B., 8B, 569-579, 1978.
T. Deb Roy and D. G. C. Robertson, "A Mathematical Model for Stainless Steelmaking.
Part I. Argon-Oxygen-Steam Mixtures," Ironmaking and Steelmaking, 5, 198-206,
1978.
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T. Deb Roy and D. G. C. Robertson, "A Mathematical Model for Stainless Steelmaking.
Part II. Application to AOD Heats," Ironmaking and Steelmaking, 5, 206-210, 1978.
D. G. C. Robertson, B. Deo, and S. Ohguchi, "A Multicomponent Mixed Transport
Control Theory for the Kinetics of Coupled Slag-Metal and Slag-Metal-Gas Reactions:
Application to Desulphurization of Molten Iron," Ironmaking and Steelmaking, 11, 41-55,
1984.
S. Ohguchi, D. G. C. Robertson, B. Deo, P. Grieveson, and J. H. E. Jeffes,
"Simultaneous Dephosphorization and Desulphurization of Molten Pig Iron," Ironmaking
and Steelmaking, 11, 202-213, 1984.
S. Taneka and D. G. C. Robertson, "Reaction Kinetics of Friable Chromites Between
1350C and 1750C," Pyrometallurgy 1987 Proceedings, I.M.M., London, England,
937-976, 1987
S. Taneka and D. G. C. Robertson, "Carbothermal Reduction of Friable Chromite in a
Small-Scale Transferred-Arc Furnace," Pyrometallurgy 1987 Proceedings, IMM,
London, England, 977-1024, 1987.
C. Vercruyssen, P. Wollants, J. Roos, D. G. C. Robertson, and L. Bertels, "The
Mathematical Modeling of the Refining of Stainless Steel in the MRPA Converter,"
Ironmaking and Steelmaking, 21, (4), 287-296, 1994.
L. R. Nelson, D. G. C. Robertson, and K. Narayana Swamy, "Kinetic Simulation of the
Control of the Nitrogen Content of Low Carbon Ferromanganese in a Novel CounterCurrent Reduction Launder Process," INFACON 7, International Ferroalloys
Conference, Trondheim, Norway, 1995.
D. G. C. Robertson, "The Computation of the Kinetics of the Reactions Between
Multiple Phases," TMS EPD Congress 1995, G. W. Warren, Editor, TMS, Warrendale,
PA, 347-361, 1995.
N. A. Barcza, D. G. C. Robertson, A. F. S. Schoukens, F. Shaw, G. M. Denton, T. W.
Worcester, and D. J. Bailey, "Enviroplas Technology for the Recovery of Lead and Zinc
From Lead Blast Furnace Slags," 6th International Conference of the Lead and Zinc
Study Group, Recycling Lead and Zinc into the 21st Century, Madrid, Spain, 1995.
Hongjie Li, A. E. Morris, and D. G. C. Robertson, “The Development of a Multi-stage
Model for a Ferromanganese Furnace and Simulation Results”, 1996 Electric Furnace
Conference Proceedings, Iron and Steel Society, Warrendale, PA, 227-235, 1996.
H-J. Li, and D. G. C. Robertson, “Effect of Moisture, Combined Water, and Volatile
Elements on Fixed Carbon Requirement in a Ferro-manganese Smelting Furnace, 1997
Electric Furnace Conference Proceedings, Iron and Steel Society, Warrendale, PA,
269-279, 1997.
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A. C. Deneys and D. G. C. Robertson, “Fluid Flow in a Laboratory-Scale DC Arc
Furnace for Slag Cleaning”, 1998 Electric Furnace Conference Proceedings, Iron and
Steel Society, Warrendale, PA, 423-432, 1998.
H-J. Li, A. E. Morris and D. G. C. Robertson, “Thermodynamic Model for MnOContaining Slags and Gas-Slag-Metal Equilibrium in Ferromanganese Smelting”, Metall.
Trans. B, Vol. 29B, 1181-1191, 1998.
K. N. Swamy, D. G. C. Robertson, P. Calvert, and D. S. Kozak, “Factors Effecting
Carbon Consumption in the Production of High Carbon Ferromanganese”, INFACON 9
Proceedings, The Ferroalloy Association, Washington DC, 293-301, 2001.
S. N. Lekakh, D. G. C. Robertson, “Analysis of melt flow in metallurgical vessels of
steelmaking processes”, ISIJ International, 53, No 4, pp. 622-628, 2013
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