The R&D Centre of NMDC ltd had organised a Workshop on ‘Ores and Minerals Characterisation by Advanced Analytical Techniques for Chemical Analysis’ recently, a company press release informed.
The Workshop was inaugurated by Dr N.K.Nanda, Director(Technical), NMDC and Dr T.C Rao, former Director, RRl Bhopal.
Dr Nanda delivered the inaugural address and emphasized on the importance of characterisation for mineral industries.
He also mentioned that the R&D has greater role to make NMDC an eco-friendly mining organisation with added thrust on mineral conservation.
The mineral industries have become very competitive and through innovative work of R&D, NMDC will be able to maintain its leadership, Dr Nanda said.
Dr T.C Rao advised to shift to holistic approach of mine to metal. The workshop was highly appreciated by the delegates and considered very relevant and contextual in view of importance of characterisation in manufacturing and mining industries, the press release informed.
The speakers to the event were Dr. V. Balaram, Emeritus Scientist, NGRI, Dr. J.S. Bhargav, Senior Chemist & faculty, GSITI, Hyderabad, Dr T S Sunil Kumar, Head-Mineralogy, Geochemistry-AMD and Dr. Kamlesh Kumar, A.G.M (Chem), NMDC ltd.
Prior to this workshop, NMDC R&D Centre also organised a workshop on “Capabilities of R&D Centre and its contribution to NMDC and other Industries”.
Dr N.K.Nanda, Director (Technical) and P.K.Satpathy, Director (Production), NMDC ltd inaugurated the workshop.
Satpathy emphasised that research activities taken up by R&D Centre should focus to improve productivity and reduce customer complaints.
He also deliberated on dissemination of capabilities of R&D Centre and its achievements to various projects of NMDC.
Earlier Rajan Kumar, Head, R&D Centre, NMDC presented an over view of R&D activities and its achievements in recent past in addition to the works being carried out for enhancing operational efficiency. Heads of Departments like, Mineralogy lab, Mineral Processing lab, Agglomeration lab, Bulk Solid Flowability lab etc, have presented their capabilities and its contribution to NMDC and other industries.
Newly inducted facility of X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer (XRF) at R&D Centre was also inaugurated by Dr N.K.Nanda and P.K.Satpathy on the day.
The workshops were successful with active participation of professionals from various Departments of NMDC including projects, GSI etc, the press release informed.