Dave Hendrickson, Assistant Director Minerals

Position and Focus

David Hendrickson is the director of the Coleraine Minerals Research Laboratory and Minerals Division of the Center for Applied Research and Technology Development. He has worked in the taconite mining industry for over 26 years, holding management positions in plant technical services and research and development. He has extensive experience in project management, advanced process control, electrical power management, total quality management, on-line chemical and physical analysis, analytical chemistry and environmental engineering. He currently directs research in the ferrous and nonferrous mining industry, as well as in industrial minerals and environmental remediation.

Background

Minnesota SME Engineer of the Year, 1996
Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin- Madison
M.S. Management, College of St. Scholastica, 1996
B.S. Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1971

Project list for David Hendrickson :

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Polymetallic Gas to Liquid Catalysts

Closing the Loop on Filter Cake Moisture Analysis and Control
To determine what the best and least expensive on-line moisture analyzer and associated sampling system is and then how best to structure the actual moisture control loop program to achieve constant filter cake and green ball moisture.
Grant Writing and Grant Search for Minnesota Taconite Operations, State and Federal Department of Energy (DOE)
To provide funding to NRRI/CMRL Director and staff engineers to evaluate State and Federal DOE grant opportunities, and to work with Minnesota taconite operations to write and submit grants for energy projects in taconite.
Full Scale Mercury Sorbent Testing at Boswell
To run a full scale sorbent addition test on Unit 1 at Minnesota Power`s Boswell Energy Station in Cohasset, Minnesota. One or more mercury removal sorbents developed at the Coleraine Minerals Research Laboratory will be injected as dry sorbents into the 75 MW unit`s 250,000 cfm stack gas stream prior to the unit`s baghouse. Stack gas mercury measurements will be conducted before and after the sorbent addition to evaluate the efficiency of mercury removal.
Slip Stream Pilot Plant for Testing Mercury Removal Methods for Taconite Flue Gases
To design and install a slip stream pilot plant at one of the taconite plants so that various mercury removal methods can be evaluated using real plant gases.
Development of Engineered Tiles with Radiation Absorbing Properties from Taconite Raw Materials
To determine the feasibility of producing architectural quality tiles with unique engineering attributes from taconite iron ore raw materials. The tiles will be produced through high temperature melting in a plasma melting system provided by MetalRecovry sited at the Coleraine Minerals Research Laboratory (CMRL) and tile formation and annealing in other equipment at the same site provided by MetalRecovry.
2009 USS Research Contract
NRRI`s Coleraine Minerals Research Laboratory (CMRL) will conduct research and development work for U.S. Steel`s Minntac and Keewatin Taconite plants in the areas of size reduction, classification, flotation, magnetic separation, filtering, balling, indurating, and pellet quality improvement. Research and development work will be conducted using bench and pilot scale equipment at CMRL in addition to in-plant test work at the mining operations plant sites.