Pedram Ashtari
Assistant Professor
   

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Telephone: +98(81)38411306
Email: p.ashtari@hut.ac.ir         pedramashtari@gmail.com
Address: Shahid Fahmideh.St,Hamedan,IRAN
CV
Website: https://en.hut.ac.ir/Dr-Pedram-Ashtari
 
Research Interests 
  • Hydrometallurgy
    • Leaching of metal-bearing ores using various methods
    • Metals separation and solution purification or concentration using conventional methods or solvent extraction method
    • metal winning (electrowinning, precipitation and reduction)
  • Mechanochemistry
    • Mechanochemical leaching
    • Mechanochemical reduction
    • Mechanochemical synthesis
    • Mechanical activation
  • Mineral Processing
    • Lead and Zinc flotation, copper flotation
    • Dense medium separation of lead and zinc ores
    • Process optimization (crushing, milling, sieving, mineral process circuits)
  • Mine Wastes, Industrial Tails or residues Recycling and Management
    • Recycling of Valuable Metals (Co, Ni, Mn, Zn, Cu, Cd, Pb, …) from wastes, tails or residues 
    • Sustainable treatment of wastes, tails, and residue
Publications
  • Pedram Ashtari; Saeid Karimi; Seyyede Atefeh Hosseini. "Reductive leaching of pyrolusite using orange peel as a reducing agent", Journal of Mining and Environment, 2023. doi: 10.22044/jme.2023.13206.2414.
  • Saeid Karimi; Pedram Ashtari; Mahshad Mahshad Rafatinia; Zahra Mohammad Alizadeh; Maryam Akbari; Samad Ghasemi. "Replacement of the Chloride Washing Process in the Recovery of Zinc from Steel-Making Dust with an Environmentally Friendly Method Based on Solvent Extraction", Metallurgical Engineering, 24, 4, 2021, 276-285. doi: 10.22076/me.2023.560065.1358
  • Ashtari, Pedram, and Parviz Pourghahramani. "Hydrometallurgical recycling of cobalt from zinc plants residue", Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management (2016): 1-12.
  • Ashtari, Pedram, and Parviz Pourghahramani. "Selective mechanochemical alkaline leaching of zinc from zinc plant residue", Hydrometallurgy 156 (2015): 165-172.
  • Ashtari, Pedram, and Parviz Pourghahramani. "Zinc extraction from zinc plants residue using selective alkaline leaching and electrowinning", Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series D 96.2 (2015): 179-187.
  • Moradkhani, Davod, Rasouli, Maryam, Behnian, Davod, Arjmandfar, Hamid, and Pedram Ashtari. "Selective zinc alkaline leaching optimization and cadmium sponge recovery by electrowinning from cold filter cake (CFC) residue", Hydrometallurgy 115 (2012): 84-92.
  • Safarzadeh, Mohammad Sadegh, Davood Moradkhani, and Pedram Ashtari. "Recovery of zinc from Cd–Ni zinc plant residues", Hydrometallurgy 97.1 (2009): 67-72.
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Courses Taught
  • Mineral Processing
  • Hydrometallurgy
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Technical English
  • Project control and management
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Academic Experiences
  • Director of the mining department (from 2022)
  • Head of mineral processing Laboratory (from 2020)
Honors and Awards