Joseph Grogan is a metallurgist in the recycling and
mining industries. His current role is Vice President of
Research and Development at Gopher Resource, one
of the largest lead battery recyclers in North America,
producing over 300,000 tons of lead alloy per year.
There he focuses on improved and more productive
technologies to recycle batteries, including furnace
technologies and robotic automation.
He was born and raised in Ireland and received his
Bachelors (Honors) in Environmental Geochemistry
from University College Dublin. Prior to moving to the
USA, he worked at SRK Consulting in Wales as a
consultant engineer on copper, gold, and uranium
projects which were located mostly in Africa. During
this time, he earned his Masters in Minerals Engineering
from the Camborne School of Mines, England, and was
sponsored by the Federation of European Mining
Programs where he also studied in Aachen, Wroclaw,
and Helsinki. In 2014, he was awarded his Doctorate in
Metallurgical Engineering from the Colorado School of
Mines, USA, where he researched galvanized scrap
recycling and zinc hydrometallurgy.
As an active member of the Minerals & Metallurgical
Processing Division of SME and the Extraction and
Processing Division of TMS, he is both an associate
editor of the SME Journal of Minerals, Mining and
Exploration and the TMS Pyrometallurgy Committee’s
advisor for JOM. He is a co-author of over twenty journal
articles and conference papers.
Ulrich Kerney studied non-ferrous metallurgy at the
Technical University of Aachen in Germany between
1977 and 1982. In 1987, he finished his doctoral thesis
about the investigations of physical properties of
manganese base alloys. In July 1987, he joined
Preussag’s metallurgical R&D department and became
responsible for the department’s high purity and special
metals production. With the formation of Metaleurop
(now Recylex) in 1988, his work focused on environmental technologies especially in metal production and
hot dip galvanizing.
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mining industries. His current role is Vice President of
Research and Development at Gopher Resource, one
of the largest lead battery recyclers in North America,
producing over 300,000 tons of lead alloy per year.
There he focuses on improved and more productive
technologies to recycle batteries, including furnace
technologies and robotic automation.
He was born and raised in Ireland and received his
Bachelors (Honors) in Environmental Geochemistry
from University College Dublin. Prior to moving to the
USA, he worked at SRK Consulting in Wales as a
consultant engineer on copper, gold, and uranium
projects which were located mostly in Africa. During
this time, he earned his Masters in Minerals Engineering
from the Camborne School of Mines, England, and was
sponsored by the Federation of European Mining
Programs where he also studied in Aachen, Wroclaw,
and Helsinki. In 2014, he was awarded his Doctorate in
Metallurgical Engineering from the Colorado School of
Mines, USA, where he researched galvanized scrap
recycling and zinc hydrometallurgy.
As an active member of the Minerals & Metallurgical
Processing Division of SME and the Extraction and
Processing Division of TMS, he is both an associate
editor of the SME Journal of Minerals, Mining and
Exploration and the TMS Pyrometallurgy Committee’s
advisor for JOM. He is a co-author of over twenty journal
articles and conference papers.
Ulrich Kerney studied non-ferrous metallurgy at the
Technical University of Aachen in Germany between
1977 and 1982. In 1987, he finished his doctoral thesis
about the investigations of physical properties of
manganese base alloys. In July 1987, he joined
Preussag’s metallurgical R&D department and became
responsible for the department’s high purity and special
metals production. With the formation of Metaleurop
(now Recylex) in 1988, his work focused on environmental technologies especially in metal production and
hot dip galvanizing.
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