Unitecr2013

September 10–13, 2013 | The Fairmont Empress and Victoria Conference Centre | Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Victoria Inner Harbor at night
Symposium Topics
– Advanced Testing of Refractories
– Advanced Installation Techniques & Equipment
– Monolithic Refractories
– Iron & Steel Making Refractories
– Raw Materials Developments & Global Raw Material Issues
– Refractories for Glass
– Cement & Lime Refractories
– Modelling and Simulation of Refractories
– Petrochemical
– Refractories for Waste to Energy Processing & Power
– Energy Savings through Refractory Design
– Nonoxide Refractory Systems
– Refractories for Chemical Processes
– Developments in Basic Refractories
– Global Education in Refractories
– Refractories for Nonferrous Metallurgy
– Safety, Environmental Issues & Recycling Solutions for Refractories
The program calls for approximately 200 presentations, with a final selection of
qualified presentations by the Technical Program Committee to be made on the
basis of technical content, as well as the date and order in which the abstracts
are received. Oral presentations will be 20 minutes, including 15 minutes for
presentations and 5 minutes for discussion. Applicants will receive e-mail
notification of acceptance by December 31, 2012.
Authors of accepted abstracts are required to submit a paper (8 pages or less)
for the meeting proceedings. The proceedings is to be published on a USB Drive
and made available at the time of the meeting. Some authors may require their
paper to be peer reviewed (refereed) and organizers have made this option
available. The deadline for submitting your paper for peer review is
April 10, 2013. The deadline for all other papers is June 12, 2013. Additional
information on the proceedings and manuscript submission process, including
Author Guidelines, will be sent to authors after the abstract acceptance process
is completed.
The official language of UNITECR 2013 is English.
Symposium Co-chairs
Len Krietz, Plibrico Company LLC, USA
Jim Stendera, Vesuvius, USA
Dale Zacherl, Almatis, USA
Mike Alexander, Riverside Refractories, USA
Shane Bower, Christy Minerals LLC, USA
Dr. M.D. Patil, Corning, Inc., USA
Fielding Cloer, Spar Inc., USA
Dr. Bill Headrick, MORCO, USA
Don McIntyre, ANH Refractories Co., USA
Ben Markel, Resco Products, USA
Dr. James Hemrick, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA
James Bennett, National Energy Technology Lab, USA
Dominick Colavito, MINTEQ International Inc., USA
Dr. George Oprea, Univ. of British Columbia, Canada
Rick Volk, United Refractories Co., USA
Jason Canon, The Christy Refractories Co. LLC, USA
Nigel Longshaw, Ceram Research Ltd., UK
Hirohide Okuno, Taiko Refractories Co. Ltd., Japan
Dr. Goutam Bhattacharya, Kerneos, India
Dr. Patrick Tassot, Calderys, Germany
Phil Edwards, Imerys, France
Adam Wisley, Kopp Glass, USA
Dr. Swapan Das, Central Glass & Ceramic Research
Institute, India
Prof. Harald Harmut, Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria
Ken Moody, Refractory System Solutions, USA
Dr. Andy Wynn, Morgan Engineered Materials, China
Dr. Valeriy Martynenko, Ukrainian Research
Institute of Refractory Research
Marcus Vinicius Moraes Magliano, Saint Gobain, Brazil
Dr. Matthias Rath, Rath, Austria
Prof. Andrie Garbers-Craig, Univeristy of Pretoria,
South Africa
Prof. Yawei Li, Wuhan Univeristy of Science and
Technology, China
Angela Rodrigues-Schroer, Minteq, USA
Teresa Cristina Togni, Togni S/A Materiais
Refractorios, Brazil