Presentation title: Hydrogen reduction of low grade iron ores 

Prof. Nikhil Dhawan is working as Associate Professor at the Dept. of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, IIT-Roorkee, INDIA. His Ph.D. in the field of Metallurgical Engineering (Modelling of crushed ore agglomeration for heap leach operations, AMIRA P-986 project) was conferred by the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA in 2013. He is the recipient of IIM-ASM Lectureship 2023 award given jointly by IIM and ASM International (USA). He was awarded the Mineral Engineering International (MEI) global Young Person award for his work on mineral processing and extractive metallurgy activities to recover metals. He has also received the Outstanding Young Faculty Award from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He has authored 103 referred international journal articles, 3 patents and 3 book chapters with an h-index of 23. His research work is focused on the iron recovery from lean grade iron ores for steel vision 2030, extraction and metal recovery (rare earth elements) from red mud, fly ash, electronic waste (discarded CFLs, hard discs), lithium and cobalt from lithium-ion batteries, copper and gold values from printed circuit boards, potassium values from silicate rocks. Received the IOM3 Billiton Gold Medal for the best paper published in Transactions C: Mineral Processing & Extractive Metallurgy. He is a member of the Technology Information, Forecasting, and Assessment Council study steering committee on “Technology solutions for maximum value recovery from Electronic Wastes”, Government of India; Bureau of Indian Standards for aluminum and other nonferrous metal division. 

Field of specialization: Mineral Processing, Extractive metallurgy, Waste Recycling