Anthony Stickland

Formation mechanisms and mechanical properties of anaerobic lagoon scum.

Veena Bobade, Tanmoy Das, Shane P Usher, Damian McMurrich, Anthony D Stickland, Nicky Eshtiaghi

Journal article  |  2022  |  Sci Total Environ

The formation of a floating scum layer on the liquid surface of covered anaerobic lagoons prevents optimal and efficient lagoon op..

Shear and solid-liquid separation behaviour of anaerobic digested sludge across a broad range of solids concentrations

Tanmoy Das, Shane P Usher, Damien J Batstone, Catherine A Rees, Anthony D Stickland, Nicky Eshtiaghi

Journal article  |  2022  |  WATER RESEARCH

Due to the non-homogeneous and multiphase nature of anaerobic lagoon constituents, CFD modelling for process optimisation requires..

Agglomeration Regimes of Particles under a Linear Laminar Flow: A Numerical Study

Yunzhou Qian, Shane P Usher, Peter J Scales, Anthony D Stickland, Alessio Alexiadis

Journal article  |  2022  |  MATHEMATICS

In this work, a combined smoothed particle hydrodynamics and discrete element method (SPH-DEM) model was proposed to model particl..

Characterising sedimentation velocity of primary waste water solids and effluents

Kareem Abood, Tanmoy Das, Daniel R Lester, Shane P Usher, Anthony D Stickland, Catherine Rees, Nicky Eshtiaghi, Damien J Batstone

Journal article  |  2022  |  WATER RESEARCH

Sedimentation in waste water is a heavily studied topic, but mainly focused on hindered and compression settling in secondary slud..

Scum formation and consolidation in covered anaerobic lagoons

Anthony D STICKLAND, Daniel R LESTER, Nicki Eshtiaghi, Veena Bobade, Tanmoy Das, SP USHER, Catherine REES, Damian McMurrich

Conference Proceedings  |  2022  |  Proceedings of OzWater'22

Scum builds up in covered anerobic lagoons that reduces hydraulic retention time, inhibits biogas capture, and damages lagoon cove..

Modelling the performance of high-pressure dewatering rolls

Shane Usher, Sajid Hassan, Nilanka Ekanayake, Anthony Stickland, Peter Scales, Robin Batterham

Conference Proceedings  |  2022  |  IMPC Asia Pacific 2022 Conference Proceedings

The dewatering of slurries can be a bottleneck in mineral processing operations whether separating process intermediates, final pr..

Computational simulation of particle agglomeration in a shear flow

Yunzhou QIAN, Shane Usher, Alessio Alexiadis, Peter Scales, Anthony Stickland

Conference Proceedings  |  2022  |  IMPC Asia Pacific 2022 Conference Proceedings

Quantifying the effects of clay on dewatering in mineral tailings

Yuxuan Luo, Nilanka Ekanayake, Negin Amini, Shane Usher, Ellen Moon, Karen Hapgood, Peter Scales, Anthony Stickland

Conference Proceedings  |  2022  |  IMPC Asia Pacific Conference Proceedings

Multiphase modelling of mineral tailing sedimentation and consolidation

Nilanka Ekanayake, Sajid Hassan, Shane Usher, Dalton Harvie, Anthony Stickland

Conference Proceedings  |  2022  |  Proceedings of IMPC Asia-Pacific 2022

Dewatering mineral tailings is a responsible tailing management strategy in the mining industry that improves the stability of min..

Effect of fine particles on the dewaterability of bimodal mixtures

Sajid Hassan, Nilanka Ekanayake, Shane Usher, Peter Scales, Robin Batterham, Anthony Stickland

Conference Proceedings  |  2022  |  IMPC Asia Pacific 2022 Conference Proceedings

Mineral tailings often contain a continuum of particles from coarse to fine, where the latter is less than 10 μm in diameter. Ther..