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Email: bja4@psu.edu Phone: (814) 863-8823 Office Address: Title: Professor Research Areas: Education Background: |
About:Dr. Arnold holds a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Mineral Processing from The Pennsylvania State University, where she specialized in coal froth flotation, fine particle processing, and coal petrology. Her research and development experience has included projects for government and industry funding agencies as well as private companies, and has covered the development of a coal cleaning simulator, coal handling, coal blending, coal cleaning characterizations, and flowsheet evaluations. Her experiences with US Steel and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), through their Coal Cleaning Test Facility, have provided her with insight into coal properties and their effect on industrial processes. Since 1997, she has been the president of PrepTech, Inc., which provides engineering consulting services to coal companies and others in the area of coal cleaning as well as equipment sales through 2020. She joined the Penn State faculty as Professor of Practice, Mining Engineering, on August 1, 2020Research Interests:• Mineral processing• Tailings • Rare earth elements • Coal processing Memberships & Committees:Coal Preparation Society of AmericaSecretary, since 2008 Secretariat, XVI International Coal Preparation Congress, 2010, Lexington, KY International Organizing Committee Representative, International Coal Preparation Congress, beginning 2016 Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc. President, 2018 Strategic Planning Committee 1992-93 Strategic Plan Oversight Committee/Working Party on the Structure of SME, 1994 Coal & Energy Division, Secretary, 1995-1996 Coal & Energy Division, Program Chairperson 2001 Coal & Energy Division, Chair, 2003 Coal & Energy Division, Miscellaneous Service and Technical Committees since 1993 SME Board Member, 2002-2005, 2010-2013 SME Foundation Vice President, 2009 –-2011; President, 2011-2013; Trustee, 2014-2020 Mineral Processing Division, Concentration Committee, 1995 - 1996 Chairperson Mineral Processing Division, Scholarship Selection Committee, 1998-99 Chairperson American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Inc. Miscellaneous Award Committees Editorial Board, International Journal of Coal Preparation and Utilization Editorial Board, Mining, Metallurgy and Exploraion Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society Tau Beta Pi, Engineering Honorary Society Consortium for Premium Carbon Products from Coal, Penn State University, 1998-2004 PrepTech Representative, Proposal Review Committee Montana Tech Metallurgical & Materials Engineering Industrial Advisory Board, since 2013 Penn State University, Mining Engineering Program Industrial Advisory Board, since 2015 Honors & Awards:Percy W. Nicholls Award, SME/ASME, 2014Frank F. Aplan Award, SME-AIME, 2013 Penn State Alumni Fellow, 2011 Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Alumni Achievement Award, 2008 Robert Stefanko Distinguished Achievement Award, Penn State Mining Engineering, 2007 Fellow (Distinguished Member), Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc., Class of 2006 Distinguished Service Award, Coal & Energy Division, SME, 2006 Chairperson Award, Coal & Energy Division, SME, 2003 J. W. Woomer Young Engineer Award, Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Coal Division, 1992 The Henry DeWitt Smith Trust of AIME, Scholarship for Graduate Studies in Mineral Engineering, 1985-1986 Outstanding Young Women of America, 1986 Eric A. and Josephine Walker Award, Penn State New Kensington Campus, 1980 Teaching:Penn State New Kensington Fall 1995 – Summer 2000, Summer 2003 MatSc 101 Energy and Fuels in Society; EMSC 150—Out of the Fiery FurnaceUniversity Park Fall 2020 EMSC 100S—First Year Seminar—Energy and Minerals in a Sustainable Society Fall 2020 Mining 497—Special Topics—Surface Chemistry of Respirable Dust Fall 2020 Mining 597—Special Topics—Surface Chemistry of Respirable Dust Spring 2021 MNPR 301—Introduction to Mineral Processing Spring 2021 MNG 497—Special Topics—Applications of Data Science in the Mineral Industry (with Dr. Long Fan) Spring 2021 MNG 451W—Senior Design (with Dr. Sekhar Bhattacharyya) Spring 2021 MNPR 505—Particle Separations (with Dr. Mohammad Rezaee) Publications:Elsevier: https://pennstate.pure.elsevier.com/en/persons/barbaraj-arnold/publications/
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