Staff Directory

Dr Gamini Senanayake

Position: Senior Lecturer - Mineral Science

Email: G.Senanayake@murdoch.edu.au

Phone: 9360 2833

Room: S&C/2.037

Qualifications:

BSc S.Lanks, DipMinSc Murd., PhD Murd.

Teaching:

M131 Intro to Extractive Metallurgy; M358 Pyrometallurgy

Research Interests:

Projects

Mineral Science is well equipped to conduct the following projects:

1. Studies on chemical speciation to rationalise leaching of minerals with sulphur dioxide/oxygen

2. Trace metal catalysis of reactions of hydrometallurgical importance.

3. Leaching behaviour of low grade nickel sulphuric and lateritic ore.

4. The role of water in high temperature aqueous chemical reactions and applications to hydrometallurgy

5. The measurement of pH in high temperature hydrometallurgical systems.

6. Bacterial leaching of minerals - Inhibition of Cell Growth During Biooxidation (in collaboration with Dr David Ralph).

7. The measurement of heat capacities of electrolytes of hydrometallurgical importance (in collaboration with A/Professor Glenn Hefter).

8. Beneficiation and utilisation of red mud residues from alumina processing (in collaboration with A/Professor Norm Stockton, Curtin University of Technology).