Dr. Lucas Nana Wiredu Damoah (BSc (Mat Eng) KNUST; MSc (Mat Sci &Eng) NTNU, PhD (Mat Sci &Eng) Missouri S & T Rolla-USA)

About Lecturer

Career Objective

To support the growth of Ghana’s economy and her industrialization through the successful processing and use of appropriate engineering materials

Experience

• July 1 – Aug 31, 2008      Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Missouri S & T Rolla, MO, USA (Visiting Scholar). Researched on the Removal of inclusions from molten aluminium through filtration
• 17 August 2007 – date   Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana (Lecturer). Taught third and fourth years undergraduate engineering students in the following courses
  • ​MSEN 312 Powder processing (fall 2007 and spring 2009)
  • MSEN 315 Structure, Bonding and Phase Equilibrium in Inorganic Solids (fall 2007/2008)
  • MSEN 317 Mechanics of Ceramics (fall 2007/2008)
  • MSEN 316 Heat and Mass Transfer (spring 2008)
  • MSEN 318 Ceramic Processing Principles (spring 2008/2009)
  • MSEN 403  Composite Design and Fabrication (fall 2008)
• ​Aug. 2004- Aug. 2005 Department of Materials Engineering, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana.Teaching Assistant. Assisted undergraduate students through tutorials and laboratory work in the following courses: Physical Metallurgy, Metals Joining Processes, Foundry Technology, Refractory Materials
• summer 2001    Western Castings Ltd     Takoradi, Ghana. Intern Engineer
• Supervised works in Melting and Refining and Casting of metals

Education

• Aug. 2005 – Jul. 2007     Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU    Trondheim, Norway (M.Sc. in Light Metals Production)
• Oct. 2000 – Jun. 2004     Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana. (B.Sc. in Materials Science and Engineering)

Research Activities

• Processing studies through plant visits of selected local ceramic manufacturing companies, 2008
• Processing and Quality assurance of clay assay crucibles and water filters, March 2008 (work still in progress)
• Master thesis on Purification of Aluminium through filtration – Coating of alumina ceramic foam filters with aluminium fluoride and using coated filter for aluminium purification, 2007
• Aluminium purification through filtration, using coated ceramic foam filters, 2006
• Filtration of Molten Aluminium using AlF3 as filter material filtration, 2006
• CO2/Air reactivity of petrocoke and anode coke during aluminium electrolysis, 2006
• Literature survey of Alumina Production: Raw materials and technology, Team Project, 2006
• Prediction of fatigue life of metals under mean stress, 2004

Current Research Interests

• Characterization of the Ghanaian ceramic industry
• Processing and Quality assurance of clay products for engineering application
• Metal Casting and Solidification
• Processing of Kaolin Clay-AlF3 Ceramic Foam Filter (CFF) for molten aluminium filtration
• Processing of Clay Ceramic Foam Filter (CFF) for water purification
• Aluminium purification through Kaolin Clay-AlF3  CFF
• Effect of inclusions in aluminium cold working process
• Materials Failure Analysis

Course Attended

• International Course on Process Metallurgy on Aluminium, Trondheim, Norway, June 2006
• Controlling High Temperature Performance Aluminium Reduction Cells – Today’s and Tomorrow’s Solutions, March 7, 2006, NTNU, Sponsored by Hydro Aluminium

Publications

Refereed journal

1. Lucas Nana Wiredu Damoah, Lifeng Zhang, Shusen Li, Xiangjun Zuo, Nonmetallic and Intermetallic Inclusions in Aluminum (Submitted to Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B on August 4, 2008)
2. Lucas Nana Wiredu Damoah, Lifeng Zhang, Removals of nonmetallic inclusions through filtration (Accepted for publication in Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B on Nov 13, 2008)
3. Lucas Nana Wiredu Damoah, Lifeng Zhang Reactive Filter for the Removal of Dissolved Alkali Metals from the Molten Aluminum, (Submitted to Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B on August 27, 2008)
4. Lifeng Zhang, Lucas Nana Wiredu Damoah, Nathaniel Femi Adegboyega, The Solid Layer on the Top of Molten Aluminum in Launders during Refining and Casting, (Submitted to Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B on September 2, 2008)

Refereed Conference

1. Lifeng Zhang, Lucas Nana Wiredu Damoah, Shusen Li, Wondwosen Abebe, Mechanisms of Inclusion Removal from Aluminum through Filtration, TMS 2008 ANNUAL MEETING & EXHIBITION, March 9-13, 2008, New Orleans, LA, USA, Light Metals 2008, Edited
2. Lifeng Zhang, Arjan Ciftja, Lucas Damoah, Removal of Non-metallic Inclusions from Molten Aluminum, Proceedings of European Metallurgical Conference 2007, June 11-14, 2007, Düsseldorf, Germany, pp.1413-1428