brown coal innovation australia presentation, page-89

Soooo lets pose a question..,

If I was a Minister about to bequeath 90-100 million
To a few newly developed coal technology's

Who would be advising The Minister for Mining
Or infrastructure or Renewable Energy about what
Technology could work.

Most likely the Chief Scientist who chaired
The BCIA conference. Why? See Below.

I'll state Once again- what I felt and heard.
He wrote that Coldry IS One of the Only proven
Dewatering technologies.


PROF ROBIN BATTERHAM
Positions
Academic, Engineering
Brown coal dewatering
Comminution
Aluminium production
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Overview
Overview
After a period as an honorary staff member and a Professorial Fellow, Professor Robin Batterham joined the Melbourne School of Engineering as Kernot Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in 2010. Professor Batterham is devoted to furthering energy research in the University and is deeply involved with the Melbourne Energy Institute. He brings enormous expertise and experience to the School, building on his long and very distinguished career in industry and government and is currently the President of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. 

Professor Batterham has been named in Engineers Australia’s list of the 100 Most Influential Engineers for 2010. Sponsored by Engineers Australia, the list aims to acknowledge engineers who have a positive influence on society. 

He graduated from the University of Melbourne in Chemical Engineering in 1965. He obtained his PhD in 1969 and was awarded a CSIRO scholarship to undertake postdoctoral studies in the United Kingdom at the central laboratories of ICI (UK).

He returned to Australia as a research scientist with the Division of Chemical Engineering in CSIRO. During this period of his professional career he undertook a significant number of innovative projects in the mineral processing field and he was ultimately appointed as Chief of the Division of Mineral and Process Engineering at the CSIRO in 1985. During his career with CSIRO Dr Batterham promoted close interactions with industry, leading to the development of a number of novel processes which are in use today in the mineral sector in Australia and overseas.

In 1988 he was approached by CRA Ltd, now Rio Tinto Ltd, to take a major role in technology development for that company. Many of the company's industrial technology successes are a result of Prof Batterham's work.

When the Federal Government introduced the CRC Research Initiative he was appointed early as a key advisor. The undoubted success of the CRC program owes much to his expertise.

In 1999 he was appointed as Australia's Chief Scientist, a position he held together with that of Chief Technologist for Rio Tinto Ltd. As Chief Scientist he advised a large number of Government bodies, including the Australian Research Council and the Cooperative Research Centres Committee. He was responsible for the major research review which produced the blueprint for Government support for research in the early years of the twenty-first century. His report entitled the "The Chance to Change" has been widely accepted by the Australian research community as well as by the Federal Government.

Since he was a student, he has had a love for organ music and he is now the organist for the Scots Church in Melbourne, where he can frequently be heard performing. He has played the organ in many major cities of the world.

In February 2003 he was invited to give the prestigious Danckwerts Memorial Lecture in London. His lecture, on "Chemical Engineering and Sustainability", was received with great acclaim. He has also recently been elected to World Chemical Engineering Council, a position acknowledging that he is one of the top ten chemical engineers in the World.

He has been appointed as the President of the UK Institution of Chemical Engineers for 2004-05, a mark of the very great respect in which he is held. He is also a recipient of the University of Melbourne Kernot medal for distinguished engineering achievement.