Ian Cameron Author & Editor

Mr. Ian Cameron is the principal metallurgist, Ferrous for the Pyrometallurgy Sector Practice at Hatch Ltd., Ontario, Canada. He services a global clientele, solving technical and business challenges throughout the iron and steel value chain starting from the main raw materials. Ian has more than 35 years of experience including 20+ years as a consulting engineer for Hatch and previously Corus Consulting/Hoogovens Technical Services. He brings extensive experience in process technology, blast furnace operations, technology transfer, commissioning and training to his steel industry clients. This includes forecasting future raw material usage patterns for major mining houses, developing new blast furnace related technologies, designing new steelworks and solving acute operational problems including plant emergencies. Ian holds Bachelor and Master’s Degrees in Metallurgical Engineering from McGill University, Montreal, Canada and is a licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario, Canada. Dr. Mitren Sukhram is a senior process engineer in the Pyrometallurgy Sector Practice at Hatch Ltd. He works on all aspects of blast furnace ironmaking including reline planning, techno-economic assessments, campaign life assessment/extension, and operational support for blast furnaces located around the world. More recently, Mitren has focused on developing innovative technologies to improve blast furnace productivity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Mitren is a graduate from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada where he completed Bachelor, Master’s and PhD degrees in Material Science and Engineering. In his PhD studies, Mitren developed a novel sensor that measured velocity patterns in liquid metals. His areas of expertise include thermodynamics, heat, mass, and momentum transfer in pyrometallurgical processes. Mitren is a licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario, Canada. Kyle Lefebvre is a process engineer in the Pyrometallurgy practice at Hatch Ltd. His work includes process modelling and logistical simulations in the iron and steel industry. Kyle has worked on new steel works design, and he has assessed of a wide range of processes in the iron and steelmaking value chain. Kyle has visited several blast furnaces in North America to perform furnace inspections and to improve plant operations. Kyle holds a Bachelor and Master’s degrees in Applied Science and Chemical Engineering from McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. Kyle is a licensed professional engineer in Ontario, Canada. William Davenport is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Arizona, United States. He has taught and consulted for more than 50 years. He has authored 6 metallurgical text books, most of which have gone into multiple English and foreign language editions. He has been interested in iron and steel since he worked in the industry in the 1960's. Together with Dr. John G. Peacey, Professor Davenport co-authored a previous book, The Iron Blast Furnace, Theory and Practice, Elsevier 1979. Professor Davenport has visited iron and steel plants around the world and in 2017, he visited several major Japanese blast furnace plants.