Theme Leader Therm. Computation
Overview
Dr Evgenii Nekhoroshev is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Chemical Engineering and a member of the Pyrometallurgy Innovation Centre led by Prof. Evgueni Jak.
He graduated with a Master in Chemistry (chemical thermodynamics) from Lomonosov's Moscow State University, Deparment of Chemistry in 2012. His Master's Thesis was "Thermodynamic optimization of the NaOH-Al(OH)3-Na2SiO3-H2O system for applications in Bayer's process of bauxite treatment" as part of a bigger project initiated in collaboration with Rusal company aimed at utilisation/valorisation of red mud residues accumulated during the production of aluminium oxide from bauxite ores.
In 2019, he completed a PhD in Metallurgical Engineering at Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal, Canada within The Centre For Research in Computational Thermodynamics (CRCT), where he acquired expertise in FactSage software, multicomponent database development, and was included in the list of official collaborators of FactSage. His PhD thesis was "Thermodynamic optimization of the Na2O-K2O-Al2O3-CaO-MgO-B2O3-SiO2 system" sponsored by Glass Consortium including Corning and SCHOTT glass producers. The purpose of the database he developed was to assist the industry in designing new glasses with special properties: chemically hardened glasses (smartphones), technical glasses with high thermal and chemical resilience (boron-containing glasses), chemically inert glasses, etc.
Short after receiving his PhD, Dr Evgenii Nekhoroshev accepted a position at The University of Queensland as part of the Pyrometallurgy Innovation Centre's team where he has an official title of Theme Leader in Thermodynamic Computations, combining his broad expertise in metallurgy, chemical engineering, applied mathematics, and programming.
Dr Evgenii Nekhoroshev has always been passionate about formalisation and automation of big research tasks. He started working on developing an automated solver for thermodynamic optimisation during his PhD thesis which was improved and finalised using the ideas of Prof. Evgueni Jak about real-time derivative matrix optimization and sensitivity analysis applicable to large multicomponent systems. His contribution to the Centre allowed to make transition to a continuous optimization approach when experimental and modelling streams of work in the Centre are efficiently combined together. It allows to include the most recent experimental datasets into a self-consistent database update with minimal time delays.
Research Interests
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Pyrometallurgy
Copper and lead smelting and refining processes -
Thermodynamic optimization
CALPHAD optimization of multicomponent oxide systems -
Computational thermodynamics
Thermodynamic and thermochemical calculations using FactSage/ChemApp packages -
Renewable/sustainable metallurgy
Development of new methods of e-waste recycling; metallurgical slag valorization and leachability -
Process modelling
Reactor/smelter design -
Iron-making and steel-making
Iron making slag chemistry
Research Impacts
Dr Evgenii Nekhoroshev is an active contributor to the development of large multicomponent databases used for industrial process simulations and predictions used in the fields of ceramics, glasses, high-temperature metallurgy of non-ferrous metals of critical importance in the world-wide industry and to Australian government.
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, École Polytechnique de Montréal
Publications
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Conference Publication: Experimental Study of Leachability of Amorphous PbO-CuO-CaO-FeO-MgO-SiO2 Slag: Methodology Development and Initial Results
Babaian, Igor, Cheng, Siyu, Shevchenko, Maksym, Nekhoroshev, Evgenii, Shishin, Denis, Chen, Jiang and Jak, Evgueni (2023). Experimental Study of Leachability of Amorphous PbO-CuO-CaO-FeO-MgO-SiO2 Slag: Methodology Development and Initial Results. 62nd Conference of Metallurgists COM 2023, Toronto, Canada, 21-24 August 2023. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-38141-6_107
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Conference Publication: Integrated Experimental Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamic Modelling Research and Implementation in Support of Sustainable Pyrometallurgical Processing
Jak, Evgueni, Nekhoroshev, Evgenii, Chen, Jiang, Shishin, Denis and Shevchenko, Maksym (2023). Integrated Experimental Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamic Modelling Research and Implementation in Support of Sustainable Pyrometallurgical Processing. 62nd Conference of Metallurgists COM 2023, Toronto, Canada, 21-24 August 2023. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-38141-6_106
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Journal Article: Phase equilibria and thermodynamic modelling of the PbO–ZnO-“CuO0.5”-SiO2 system
Wen, X., Shevchenko, M., Nekhoroshev, E. and Jak, E. (2023). Phase equilibria and thermodynamic modelling of the PbO–ZnO-“CuO0.5”-SiO2 system. Ceramics International, 49 (14), 23817-23834. doi: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2023.04.223
Supervision
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Fundamental experimental, thermodynamic and physicochemical modelling studies of slag/matte/metal/gas systems in support of improvements of existing and developments of new sustainable high temperature metallurgical and recycling technologies
Doctor Philosophy
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(2024) Doctor Philosophy
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Fundamental experimental, thermodynamic and physicochemical modelling studies of slag/matte/metal/gas systems in support of improvements of existing and developments of new sustainable high temperature metallurgical and recycling technologies
Doctor Philosophy
Publications
Book Chapter
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Wen, Xi Rui, Abdeyazdan, Hamed, Khartcyzov, Georgii, Shevchenko, Maksym, Shishin, Denis, Nekhoroshev, Evgenii, Hayes, Peter C., Azekenov, Turarbek, Ushkov, Leonid and Jak, Evgueni (2023). The Integrated Experimental Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamic Modelling Study of the PbO-ZnO-FeO-FeO1.5-MgO-SiO2 System, and Demonstration of Its Industrial Application. Proceedings of the 62nd Conference of Metallurgists, COM 2023. (pp. 769-778) Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-38141-6_101
Journal Article
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Phase equilibria and thermodynamic modelling of the PbO–ZnO-“CuO0.5”-SiO2 system
Wen, X., Shevchenko, M., Nekhoroshev, E. and Jak, E. (2023). Phase equilibria and thermodynamic modelling of the PbO–ZnO-“CuO0.5”-SiO2 system. Ceramics International, 49 (14), 23817-23834. doi: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2023.04.223
Conference Publication
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Babaian, Igor, Cheng, Siyu, Shevchenko, Maksym, Nekhoroshev, Evgenii, Shishin, Denis, Chen, Jiang and Jak, Evgueni (2023). Experimental Study of Leachability of Amorphous PbO-CuO-CaO-FeO-MgO-SiO2 Slag: Methodology Development and Initial Results. 62nd Conference of Metallurgists COM 2023, Toronto, Canada, 21-24 August 2023. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-38141-6_107
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Jak, Evgueni, Nekhoroshev, Evgenii, Chen, Jiang, Shishin, Denis and Shevchenko, Maksym (2023). Integrated Experimental Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamic Modelling Research and Implementation in Support of Sustainable Pyrometallurgical Processing. 62nd Conference of Metallurgists COM 2023, Toronto, Canada, 21-24 August 2023. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-38141-6_106
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Babaian, Igor, Cheng, Siyu, Shevchenko, Maksym, Nekhoroshev, Evgenii, Chen, Jiang, Shishin, Denis and Jak, Evgueni (2022). Experimental investigation and thermodynamic modeling of leachability of elements from the Pb-Cu-Fe-Si-O slag in support of slag recycling. 11th International Conference on Copper, Santiago, Chile, 13-17 November 2022. Santiago, Chile: Instituto de Ingenieros de Minas de Chile.
PhD and MPhil Supervision
Current Supervision
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Fundamental experimental, thermodynamic and physicochemical modelling studies of slag/matte/metal/gas systems in support of improvements of existing and developments of new sustainable high temperature metallurgical and recycling technologies
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
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Fundamental experimental, thermodynamic and physicochemical modelling studies of slag/matte/metal/gas systems in support of improvements of existing and developments of new sustainable high temperature metallurgical and recycling technologies
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Completed Supervision
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(2024) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
