Head of Laboratory : Dr.-Ing. Zulfiadi Zulhan, ST., MT.

Member : Imam Santoso, ST., M.Phil.; Taufiq Hidayat, ST., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Research Activities:

• Dephosphorization of high carbon ferronickel under reducing condition
• Extraction of magnesium metal and ferrosilicon from ferronickel slag
• Utilization of gypsum as tin fuming agent for tin fuming plant
• Solid state reduction of iron sand (titanomagnetite) concentrate to produce iron nugget and slag with high content of titanium by means of isothermal – temperature gradient method
• Solid state and semi-fused reduction of nickel laterite ore to produce ferronickel