Rate My Professor Merrick Mahoney

Mahoney's research specializations encompass the behavior of coking coals and metallurgical cokes, including chemical transformations during coking, plastic layer formation, pore microstructures, coke strength, reactivity, and abrasion resistance under blast furnace conditions. He has produced 78 publications listed on ResearchGate, which have received 1,685 citations and 11,796 reads. Key publications include 'Influence of elevated temperature and gas atmosphere on coke abrasion resistance. Part two: Blast furnace cokes' (2024), 'Influence of elevated temperature and gas atmosphere on coke abrasion resistance. Part one: Pilot oven cokes' (2023), 'Classifying coke using CT scans and landmark multidimensional scaling' (2023), 'Using xenon K-edge subtraction to image the gas-accessible porosity within a blast furnace coke' (2023), 'Identification of preferential pathways in the pore microstructure of metallurgical coke and links to anisotropic strength properties' (2021), 'A comprehensive study on the transformation of chemical structures in the plastic layers during coking of Australian coals' (2020), 'A review of the state-of-the-art research on carbon structure evolution during the coking process: From plastic layer chemistry to 3D carbon structure establishment' (2020), 'Chemical Changes of Australian Coking Coals from Different Basins during Pyrolysis' (2016, Energy & Fuels), and 'In Situ FTIR-MS Study Correlations of Coal Properties with FTIR Spectra during Pyrolysis' (2015, Energy & Fuels). Mahoney has been acknowledged in the ACARP Research and Industry Excellence Awards for his long-term commitment to research on the transformation from coal to coke.