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Richard Sakurovs is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Their research primarily engages with engineering disciplines, focusing on mechanical and biomedical engineering, ocean engineering, mechanics of materials, and fuel technology.

Their work covers a range of topics related to thermochemical biomass conversion processes, iron and steelmaking processes, coal properties and utilization, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, advanced materials and composites, coal and coke industries research, and coal combustion and slurry processing.

Frequent coauthors include Merrick R. Mahoney, Hannah Lomas, Richard Roest, Hui Wu, and Zhengyi Jiang.

Richard Sakurovs has published multiple papers, with recent notable works including:

  • Influence of elevated temperature and gas atmosphere on coke abrasion resistance. Part one: Pilot oven cokes, 2023, Fuel
  • Effect of high temperature on nanopores in cokes, 2022, Fuel
  • Comparison of a laboratory-scale coke and a pilot-scale coke from matched coal, 2020, Ironmaking & Steelmaking Processes Products and Applications
  • Using xenon K-edge subtraction to image the gas-accessible porosity distribution within metallurgical cokes and their partially reacted products, 2023, Tomography of Materials and Structures
  • Influence of elevated temperature and gas atmosphere on coke abrasion resistance. Part two: Blast furnace cokes, 2024, Fuel

The majority of Richard Sakurovs's publications appear in the journal Fuel, supplemented by papers in other venues such as SSRN Electronic Journal, Ironmaking & Steelmaking Processes Products and Applications, and Tomography of Materials and Structures.

Best Publications

  • Comparing the porosity and surface areas of coal as measured by gas adsorption, mercury intrusion and SAXS techniques

    Gregory N. Okolo;Raymond C. Everson;Hein W.J.P. Neomagus;Mokone J. Roberts

  • Swelling of Australian coals in supercritical CO2

    Stuart Day;Robyn Fry;Richard Sakurovs

  • Chemical–structural properties of South African bituminous coals: insights from wide angle XRD–carbon fraction analysis, ATR–FTIR, solid state 13C NMR, and HRTEM techniques

    Gregory N. Okolo;Hein W.J.P. Neomagus;Raymond C. Everson;Mokone J. Roberts

  • Application of a modified Dubinin-Radushkevich equation to adsorption of gases by coals under supercritical conditions

    Richard Sakurovs;Stuart Day;Steve Weir;Greg Duffy

  • Supercritical gas sorption on moist coals

    Stuart Day;Richard Sakurovs;Steve Weir

  • A USANS/SANS Study of the Accessibility of Pores in the Barnett Shale to Methane and Water

    Leslie F. Ruppert;Richard Sakurovs;Tomasz P. Blach;Lilin He

  • The characterisation of different forms of water in low rank coals and some hydrothermally dried products

    D J Allardice;Leigh M Clemow;George Favas;William Roy Jackson

  • Effect of coal properties on CO2 sorption capacity under supercritical conditions

    Stuart Day;Greg Duffy;Richard Sakurovs;Steve Weir

  • Accessibility of pores in coal to methane and carbon dioxide

    Yuri B. Melnichenko;Lilin He;Richard Sakurovs;Arkady L. Kholodenko

  • Temperature dependence of sorption of gases by coals and charcoals

    Richard Sakurovs;Stuart Day;Steve Weir;Greg Duffy

  • First international inter-laboratory comparison of high-pressure CH4, CO2 and C2H6 sorption isotherms on carbonaceous shales

    Matus Gasparik;Thomas F.T. Rexer;Andrew C. Aplin;Pierre Billemont

  • Swelling of Coals by Supercritical Gases and Its Relationship to Sorption

    Stuart Day;Robyn Fry;Richard Sakurovs;Steve Weir

  • Minerals and iron-making reactions in blast furnaces

    S. Gupta;S. Gupta;D. French;D. French;R. Sakurovs;R. Sakurovs;M. Grigore;M. Grigore

  • Pore size distribution and accessible pore size distribution in bituminous coals

    Richard Sakurovs;Lilin He;Yuri B. Melnichenko;Andrzej Pawel Radlinski

  • Influence of Mineral Matter on Coke Reactivity with Carbon Dioxide

    Mihaela Grigore;Richard Sakurovs;David French;Veena Sahajwalla

  • Effect of maceral composition and coal rank on gas diffusion in Australian coals

    Alireza Keshavarz;Richard Sakurovs;Mihaela Grigore;Mohammad Sayyafzadeh

  • Inter-laboratory comparison II: CO2 isotherms measured on moisture-equilibrated Argonne premium coals at 55 °C and up to 15 MPa

    A. L. Goodman;Andreas Busch;R. M. Bustin;L. Chikatamarla

  • A pressure and concentration dependence of CO2 diffusion in two Australian bituminous coals

    Gregory Staib;Gregory Staib;Richard Sakurovs;Evan Mac A. Gray

  • Moisture-Induced Swelling of Coal

    Robyn Fry;Stuart Day;Richard Sakurovs

  • Swelling of coal in carbon dioxide, methane and their mixtures

    Stuart Day;Robyn Fry;Richard Sakurovs

  • Swelling of moist coal in carbon dioxide and methane

    Stuart Day;Robyn Fry;Richard Sakurovs

  • Relationships between the Critical Properties of Gases and Their High Pressure Sorption Behavior on Coals

    Richard Sakurovs;Stuart Day;Steve Weir

Frequent Co-Authors

Veena Sahajwalla
Veena Sahajwalla University of New South Wales
Kenneth P. Ghiggino
Kenneth P. Ghiggino University of Melbourne
Osamu Ito
Osamu Ito Tohoku University
Sushil Gupta
Sushil Gupta Florida International University
Hein W.J.P. Neomagus
Hein W.J.P. Neomagus North-West University
Jonathan P. Mathews
Jonathan P. Mathews Pennsylvania State University
Maria Mastalerz
Maria Mastalerz Indiana University
Zhengyi Jiang
Zhengyi Jiang University of Wollongong
Bernhard M. Krooss
Bernhard M. Krooss RWTH Aachen University
Alan L. Chaffee
Alan L. Chaffee Monash University

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