Pyro Week 2023

Ex Mente Pyro Week 2023

Johan Zietsman

2023-04-28

Dates: 19 – 20 April 2023
Format: Training and workshop (in-person)
Pyro Community Day (hybrid: online and in-person)
Location: Engineering 4.0, University of Pretoria, South Africa

The format of the week has changed from last year to make the training more accessible and to equip attendees with the necessary knowledge and skill that will allow them to do powerful thermochemical calculations with FactSage™.

Manuals and video material are supplied in advance to prepare at one’s own pace and make notes on questions that one would like to be addressed in the in-person work sessions.
The theme for Pyro Community Day is: Sustainable Pyrometallurgy – Implications and Opportunities. The day will be filled with presentations on relevant topics in the industry.

Program

Date Event Format
19 April Worksessions with Q&A  In-person
20 April Pyro Community Day Hybrid: In-person and online

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We are delighted to welcome Dr Jaco Swanepoel to the Ex Mente team, and are excited about our journey together.

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2022-03-02

We are looking forward to exploring, discovering, and learning together as part of our drive to empower teams in our industry. In the past, we hosted Thermo Week, during which we focused on thermochemistry. Pyro Week has a broader scope, to address more of the needs that we have identified in our pyrometallurgy community.

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Dr Jaco Swanepoel 2024

Dr Jaco Swanepoel

SENIOR PROCESS ENGINEER

Jaco is a Chemical Engineer with twelve years of experience in projects that range from reactive metals handling, reactive metal powder production in molten salt slurry reactors, extractive metallurgy to microwave-assisted gas-solid materials processing.
Jaco contributed to three process patents and obtained a PhD degree in Chemical Engineering. Jaco also completed the KTP Management and Leadership Study Program at Ashorne Hill Management College, England.

Stefan van der Merwe 2024

Stefan van der Merwe

Lead Engineer Digital

Stefan’s greatest passion is to enable people. By combining his greatest passion with his love for technology, he finds joy in making computing infrastructure accessible to the non-technical, and developing software that uncomplicates tasks. As a software engineer with qualifications in electronic engineering and bioengineering, Stefan is responsible for software development, enabling the team and clients to advance through insight.