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Dr Nobuyuki Kawashima

Position: Research Associate Dr Nobuyuki Kawashima
Division/Portfolio: Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment
School/Unit: Information Technology Engineering and the Environment Divisional Office
Group: Appl Cntr Struct & Synch Study
Campus: Mawson Lakes Campus
Office: H2-22
Telephone: +61 8 830 26445
Fax: +61 8 830 25545
Email: Nobuyuki_dot_Kawashima_at_unisa_dot_edu_dot_au
URL for Business Card: http://people.unisa.edu.au/Nobuyuki.Kawashima


Nobuyuki Kawashima joined Applied Centre for Structural and Synchrotron Studies (ACeSSS) as a Research Associate in October 2006. He is currently working in two ARC funded research projects including AMIRA P933 Acid Mine Drainage and Tiwest.

He completed a PhD in Applied Science at the Ian Wark Research Institute, University of South Australia in 2002. He also holds a MSc in Engineering and BSc (Hons) in Engineering from Shinshu Univrsity, Nagano, Japan.



Applied Centre for Structural and Synchrotron Studies (ACeSSS)

Mawson Institute

Australian Ceramic Society

Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Society

Australian Microbeam Analysis Society

Adelaide Microscopy


Professional associations

Australian Ceramic Society

Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Society

Australian Microbeam Analysis Society


Qualifications

Ph.D. (Applied Science) University of South Australia

M.Sc.Eng. (Industrial Chemistry) Shinshu University, Japan

B.Sc.Eng.(Hons) (Industrial Chemistry) Shinshu University, Japan


Research interests

  • Secondary minerals in acid mine drainage.
  • Ceramic materials.
  • Material characterisation with scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), X-ray diffraction (XRD) & X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS).

Research publications

Passivating Surface Layer Formation on Pyrite in Neutral Rock Drainage, R. Schumann, N. Kawashima, J. Li, S. Miller, R. St.C. Smart and W.S. Stewart, 8th International Conference on Acid Rock Drainage (8ICARD, June 22-26, 2009), Skellefteå, Sweden (2009).

Towards Understanding the Chemistry of Limestone Mitigation of Acid and Metalliferous Drainage in Waste Rock Dumps – from Laboratory to Field Experiments, R. Schumann, S. Miller, Y. Rusdinar, R. Smart, N. Kawashima and D. Weissmann, Proc. Sixth Australian Workshop on Acid and Metalliferous Drainage (Eds. L.C. Bell, B.M.D. Barrie, B. Braddock and R.W. McLean) Publ. ACMER, Sustainable Minerals Institute (Brisbane, Australia) ISBN: 978-0-9750304-6-2 (CD-ROM), pp. 63-76 (2008).

Pyrite oxidation control and calcite formation in long-term limestone-treated ARD waste, R. Smart, J. Li, R. Schumann, N. Kawashima, W. Stewart and S. Miller, in Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 6th International Acid Sulfate Soil Conference and the Acid Rock Drainage Symposium, 303, September 2008, Guangzhou, China (C. Lin Eds), 2008.

Methodology for sulfur speciation and more accurate acid potential assessment of acid rock drainage wastes, J. Li, R. Schumann, N. Kawashima, W. Stewart and S. Miller, in Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 6th International Acid Sulfate Soil Conference and the Acid Rock Drainage Symposium, 103-107, September 2008, Guangzhou, China (C. Lin Eds), 2008.


Expertise for Media Contact

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Materials Science


Community Service

Organisation Name:   Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Society
Type of Organisation:   Professional organisation
Organisation URL:   http://www.microscopy.org.au/
Level of involvement:   Webmaster
Year from:   2005




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