School of Chemical Engineering

Dr Evgenii Nekhoroshev

Theme Leader Therm. Computation
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Dr Evgenii Nekhoroshev is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Chemical Engineering and a member of the Pyrometallurgy Innovation Centre led by Prof. Evgueni Jak.

He graduated with a Master in Chemistry (chemical thermodynamics) from Lomonosov's Moscow State University, Deparment of Chemistry in 2012. His Master's Thesis was "Thermodynamic optimization of the NaOH-Al(OH)3-Na2SiO3-H2O system for applications in Bayer's process of bauxite treatment" as part of a bigger project initiated in collaboration with Rusal company aimed at utilisation/valorisation of red mud residues accumulated during the production of aluminium oxide from bauxite ores.

In 2019, he completed a PhD in Metallurgical Engineering at Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal, Canada within The Centre For Research in Computational Thermodynamics (CRCT), where he acquired expertise in FactSage software, multicomponent database development, and was included in the list of official collaborators of FactSage. His PhD thesis was "Thermodynamic optimization of the Na2O-K2O-Al2O3-CaO-MgO-B2O3-SiO2 system" sponsored by Glass Consortium including Corning and SCHOTT glass producers. The purpose of the database he developed was to assist the industry in designing new glasses with special properties: chemically hardened glasses (smartphones), technical glasses with high thermal and chemical resilience (boron-containing glasses), chemically inert glasses, etc.

Short after receiving his PhD, Dr Evgenii Nekhoroshev accepted a position at The University of Queensland as part of the Pyrometallurgy Innovation Centre's team where he has an official title of Theme Leader in Thermodynamic Computations, combining his broad expertise in metallurgy, chemical engineering, applied mathematics, and programming.

Dr Evgenii Nekhoroshev has always been passionate about formalisation and automation of big research tasks. He started working on developing an automated solver for thermodynamic optimisation during his PhD thesis which was improved and finalised using the ideas of Prof. Evgueni Jak about real-time derivative matrix optimization and sensitivity analysis applicable to large multicomponent systems. His contribution to the Centre allowed to make transition to a continuous optimization approach when experimental and modelling streams of work in the Centre are efficiently combined together. It allows to include the most recent experimental datasets into a self-consistent database update with minimal time delays.

Publications

Journal Articles (6)
Conference Papers (7)

Journal Articles

Cheng, S., Nekhoroshev, E., Shevchenko, M., Shishin, D. and Jak, E. (2024). Thermodynamic re-optimisation of the CaO-FeO-Fe2O3 system integrated with experimental phase equilibria studies (Part I). Ceramics International, 50 (22, Part A), 45438-45452. doi: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2024.08.383
KHARTCYZOV, G.E.O.R.G.I.I., SHEVCHENKO, M.A.K.S.Y.M., NEKHOROSHEV, E.V.G.E.N.I.I. and JAK, E.V.G.U.E.N.I. (2024). Integrated experimental and thermodynamic modelling study of phase equilibria in the “CuO0.5”-PbO-CaO system in equilibrium with Cu/Pb metal. Ceramics International. doi: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2024.10.265
Nekhoroshev, Evgenii, Shevchenko, Maksym, Cheng, Siyu, Shishin, Denis and Jak, Evgueni (2024). Thermodynamic re-optimisation of the CaO-SiO2 system integrated with experimental phase equilibria studies. Ceramics International, 50 (18 Part B), 33686-33702. doi: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2024.06.187
Jak, Evgueni, Shevchenko, Maksym, Shishin, Denis, Nekhoroshev, Evgenii, Starykh, Roman, Chen, Jiang and Hayes, Peter (2024). Recent university research, implementation and education in support of pyrometallurgical lead processing. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2738 (1) 012007. doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/2738/1/012007
Wen, X., Shevchenko, M., Nekhoroshev, E. and Jak, E. (2024). Phase equilibria and thermodynamic modelling of the PbO-ZnO-FeO-FeO1.5-SiO2 system and its subsystems in equilibrium with air/metallic lead/iron. Ceramics International, 50 (6), 8917-8951. doi: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2023.12.207
Wen, X., Shevchenko, M., Nekhoroshev, E. and Jak, E. (2023). Phase equilibria and thermodynamic modelling of the PbO–ZnO-“CuO0.5”-SiO2 system. Ceramics International, 49 (14), 23817-23834. doi: 10.1016/j.ceramint.2023.04.223

Conference Papers

Jak, E., Shevchenko, M., Shishin, D., Nekhoroshev, E., Chen, J. and Hayes, P. (2024). University research on molten slags, matte, speiss and metal systems for high temperature processing – challenges, opportunities and solutions. 12th International Conference of Molten Slags, Fluxes and Salts (MOLTEN 2024), Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 17-19 June 2024. Carlton, VIC, Australia: Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM). doi: 10.62053/cyah2875
Shishin, D., Shevchenko, M., Nekhoroshev, E. and Jak, E. (2024). Challenges and limitations in development of large thermodynamic databases for multiple molten phases using the Modified Quasichemical Formalism. 12th International Conference of Molten Slags, Fluxes and Salts (MOLTEN 2024), Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 17-19 June 2024. Carlton, VIC, Australia: Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM). doi: 10.62053/jxex2673
Nekhoroshev, E., Shishin, D., Shevchenko, M. and Jak, E. (2024). Continuous method of thermodynamic optimisation using first-derivative matrices for large multicomponent systems. 12th International Conference of Molten Slags, Fluxes and Salts (MOLTEN 2024), Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 17-19 June 2024. Carlton, VIC, Australia: Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM). doi: 10.62053/rpdv2805
Babaian, Igor, Cheng, Siyu, Shevchenko, Maksym, Nekhoroshev, Evgenii, Shishin, Denis, Chen, Jiang and Jak, Evgueni (2023). Experimental study of leachability of amorphous PbO-CuO-CaO-FeO-MgO-SiO2 slag: methodology development and initial results. 62nd Conference of Metallurgists COM 2023, Toronto, Canada, 21-24 August 2023. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-38141-6_107
Jak, Evgueni, Nekhoroshev, Evgenii, Chen, Jiang, Shishin, Denis and Shevchenko, Maksym (2023). Integrated Experimental Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamic Modelling Research and Implementation in Support of Sustainable Pyrometallurgical Processing. 62nd Conference of Metallurgists COM 2023, Toronto, Canada, 21-24 August 2023. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-38141-6_106
Wen, Xi Rui, Abdeyazdan, Hamed, Khartcyzov, Georgii, Shevchenko, Maksym, Shishin, Denis, Nekhoroshev, Evgenii, Hayes, Peter C., Azekenov, Turarbek, Ushkov, Leonid and Jak, Evgueni (2023). The integrated experimental phase equilibria and thermodynamic modelling study of the PbO-ZnO-FeO-FeO1.5-MgO-SiO2 system, and demonstration of its industrial application. 62nd Conference of Metallurgists, COM 2023, Toronto, Canada, 21-24 August 2023. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-38141-6_101
Babaian, Igor, Cheng, Siyu, Shevchenko, Maksym, Nekhoroshev, Evgenii, Chen, Jiang, Shishin, Denis and Jak, Evgueni (2022). Experimental investigation and thermodynamic modeling of leachability of elements from the Pb-Cu-Fe-Si-O slag in support of slag recycling. 11th International Conference on Copper, Santiago, Chile, 13-17 November 2022. Santiago, Chile: Instituto de Ingenieros de Minas de Chile.