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Assistant Professor
Boyd Davis has worked as a private consultant since 1997 in the area of computational thermochemistry and process development and is president of Kingston Process Metallurgy Inc. The company focuses on lab scale chemical process development for the metallurgical industry, mainly in light metals, non-ferrous metals, secondary materials, and hydrogen production and storage. The laboratories are located at the Queen's-RMC Fuel Cell Research Centre (FCRC).
He also has a second company, again with partner Alain Roy, called Kingston Metals & Materials, which produces high purity metals for the semi-conductor industry. This company was started after winning the 2003 Kingston First Capital Challenge for the best business plan.
Aside from his companies' projects, Boyd maintains an active academic research programme. He has developped and taught a course on recycling and is currently working to produce an undergraduate stream in mineral and metal processing. He also volunteers his time to supervise graduate students and undergraduate environmental projects. Current academic projects are magnesium electrolysis fundamentals and process development in chemical hydrogen storage for automotive applications. He is also co-founder and faculty director of the Queen's Living Energy Laboratory (http://livingenergylab.ca/le/Home.html).
He has authored over 20 technical papers. Boyd is active with the Metallurgical Society of CIM and was awarded the Past Presidents' Memorial Medal in 2001 for service to the society.
Courses:
- Introduction to Recycling MINE 301
Funding:
Canadian Council on Electrochemical Technologies, Alcan, DaimlerChysler, NSERC (Discovery), NSERC (Equipment), AUTO21, Canada Foundation for Innovation, Ontario Centre of Excellence (OCE)
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