Basak Anameric, Ph.D.
Department of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering

Basak Anameric

Basak Anameric is the Nucor Professor at Montana Tech, where she also serves as a metallurgist and chemical engineer with an additional engineering degree in mining and mineral processing engineering, and has 19 years of experience. Skilled in chemical thermodynamics and kinetics, with emphasis on high-temperature processing, experimental methods development, evaluation of fundamental aspects of reduction and metal-slag interactions, improvement of sustainability attributes, and waste beneficiation.

Metallurgist and chemical engineer with an additional engineering degree in mining and mineral processing engineering, and 19 years of experience. Skilled in chemical thermodynamics and kinetics, with emphasis on high-temperature processing, experimental methods development, evaluation of fundamental aspects of reduction and metal-slag interactions, improvement of sustainability attributes, and waste beneficiation. Contributed to projects in many capacities, including as a trainer, process, and project engineer, principal investigator, and project manager.

Currently, following her lifelong dream of teaching, conducting research, and collaborating with marvellous researchers and scientists.

2007

Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI
Dissertation: Pig Iron Nugget Process

2005

Master of Science in Chemical Engineering
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI
Thesis: Pig Iron Nugget Process: An Environmentally Friendly, Economic, Single-Step Alternative to the Blast Furnace Process

2002

Bachelor of Science in Mining and Mineral Processing Engineering
Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

Research Scientist – Metallurgist
University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD)
Natural Resources Research Institute (NRRI), Coleraine Laboratories, Coleraine, MN

Research Project Engineer
United States Steel Corporation (USS)
Research and Technology Center, Pittsburgh, PA

Quality Engineer and ISO Coordinator
Lafarge North America, Alpena Plant, Alpena, MI

  • EMET 307 M&ME Thermodynamics
  • EMET 333 Mineral Processing and Design
  • EMET 335 Mineral Processing & Design Lab
  • EMET 340 Mass Transfer and Chemical Kinetics
  • EMET 402 Pyrometallurgy and Thermal Processing

My desire to find answers to important, interesting, and practice-relevant questions to advance the kinetic and thermodynamic considerations for metallurgical systems is the incentive behind the research projects that I initiate or participate in. The objectives behind these projects include contributing to the field with both theoretical implications and practical applications.

  • High-temperature processing, experimental methods, and methods development
  • Kinetics and thermodynamics of chemical metallurgy
  • Slag–metal interactions
  • Reduction and smelting technologies, including alternative technologies
  • Raw material processing and mineral dressing (ferrous, non-ferrous, and industrial minerals)
  • Iron and steel making, waste valorization
  • Sustainable raw materials processing, including methods to lower energy intensity and improve material efficiency

Book Chapters
  • Anameric, T.R. Riebeiro, D. M. Rohaus, 12.17 Ironmaking, SME Mineral Processing, and Extractive Metallurgy Handbook, Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, Inc., Managing Editor, R. C. Dunne, Editors, S. K. Kawatra and C. A. Young, February 2019, ISBN-13:978-087335385L.
Publications
  • Anameric, Selective Carbothermic Reduction and Smelting (SCRS) Process for Beneficiation of Low-Grade Iron-Manganese Mineral Deposits, Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration, Vol 38, 1175-1189, November 2020.
  • Anameric and S.K. Kawatra, Manipulation of slag separation properties from pig iron nuggets with flux additions to dried green ball mixture, Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review, 2018, Vol 39, No 2, 73-88.
  • Anameric and S.K. Kawatra, Direct Iron Smelting Reduction Processes, Mineral Processing, and Extractive Metallurgy Review, Vol 30, Issue 1, December 2008, pg 1 - 51.
  • Anameric and S.K. Kawatra, Properties, and Features of Direct Reduced Iron, Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review, Vol 28, Issue 1, January 2007, pg 59 - 116.
  • Anameric, K.B. Rundman, and S.K. Kawtara, Carburization Effects on Pig Iron Nugget Making, Minerals and Metallurgical Processing, Vol 23, No 3, 2006, pg 139 - 151.
Patent Applications
  • Upgrading Low-Grade Ores and Concentrates Which Contain Iron and One or More Metals via Selective Carbothermic Reduction and Smelting Process, PCT/US19/18219 (15 February 2019).

  • Value Proposition Design class/workshop, University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management, MIN-Corps program, and earned a Value Proposition Design Badge.
  • Equity and Diversity Certificate Program, University of Minnesota, and earned an Equity Foundations Badge.

  • Camping, hiking, and exploring
  • Great Pyrenees (Rosie and Maple)
  • Cheering for my swimmers (Alaina, Adalie, Ollie and Elmer)
  • Stained glass, glass slumping, basket weaving, crochet, knitting, beads
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I look forward to speaking with you.

Engineering Building 216
Montana Tech
(406) 496-4369
banameric@mtech.edu
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