Rate My Professor Liza Elliott

Dr. Liza Elliott is a Research Associate in the School of Engineering at the University of Newcastle, Australia. With more than 26 years of experience, she is a senior researcher focused on coal and biomass combustion, carbon utilisation in iron and steelmaking, and ash behaviour and utilisation. She completed her Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering (1988-1992) and PhD on slag formation during gasification at the University of Newcastle, supported by a CRA scholarship. Earlier, at CRA’s Advanced Technology Group in Bundoora, she researched world trends in PCI coal use, carbon reactivity in HIsmelt reactors, and bauxite pelletising for aluminium production. Dr. Elliott has remained at the University of Newcastle since her PhD, contributing to understanding material behaviour in key industrial processes involving carbon and refractory oxides.

Her research includes oxy-fuel coal combustion behaviour, density separation techniques for ash cenospheres, deposition mechanisms in pulverised fuel boilers, fouling and slagging prediction methods, biomass combustion and ash properties, PM10/PM2.5 formation mechanisms and measurements, overseas coal characterisation for Australian markets, PCI combustibility and suitability assessments for steelmaking, blockage potential evaluation, EAF dust processing techniques, ash sintering in fluidised beds, and rare earth elements in fly ash. She utilises advanced characterisation methods such as TIMA, SEM, TMA, XRD, char morphology analysis, and density separation. Ongoing and future efforts emphasise green steel processes, carbon black assessment, and substitution of carbon energy with hydrogen and other renewables. Key publications are "Analysis and Evaluation of Ash Deposits from the Coal-Fired Callide Oxyfuel Project" (Energy & Fuels, 2019), "Comparative Study on the Combustion Performance of Coals on a Pilot-Scale Test Rig Simulating Blast Furnace Pulverized Coal Injection and a Lab-Scale Drop-Tube Furnace" (Energy & Fuels, 2013), "An overview on oxyfuel coal combustion—State of the art research and technology development" (Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 2009), "High-Temperature Conversion of SO2 to SO3: Homogeneous Experiments and Catalytic Effect of Fly Ash from Air and Oxy-fuel Firing" (Energy & Fuels, 2014), and "Rate Limitations of Lime Dissolution into Coal Ash Slag" (Energy & Fuels, 2008).