Jan Chorney - Staff – CAMP

Post Graduate Researcher, Adjunct Professor
ELC Building, Room 214
jchorney@mtech.edu
406-496-4609

Education 

M.S., Project Engineering and Management – Montana Tech
M.S., Metallurgical and Materials Engineering – Montana Tech
B.S., Metallurgical Engineering – Montana Tech

About Jan

Jan, a Ph.D. candidate in the Materials Science program, teaches in the Metallurgical & Materials Engineering department. She teaches process instrumentation and control, pyrometallurgy & thermal processing, metallurgical & materials engineering safety & health, metallurgical and materials thermodynamics, particulate systems processing laboratory, and mineral processing laboratory. Her industry experience includes work as a metallurgical engineer for Western Energy Company in Winston, Montana, and as a principle investigator and mineral resource engineer working on the National Coal Resource Data System (NCRDS) at the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology in Butte, Montana.  Jan manages CAMP’s Army Research Laboratory (ARL) funded research database, and thanks to her industry experience and knowledge across multiple fields of study, she is one of CAMP’s great resources for questions related to analytical instrumentation, and mineral metallurgical processing equipment and test methodology.

Selected Publications

Chorney, J. Calcination, in Young, C., and Dunne, R. eds., SME Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Handbook, 2019, 1445-1452.

Selected Presentations

Wallace, G.C.; Downey, J.P.; Chorney, J.; Schumacher, K. Optimization of Process Parameters for the Synthesis of Mo₂C on an Activated Carbon Matrix, in Peng Z. et al. eds., 11th International Symposium on High-Temperature Metallurgical Processing, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series, San Diego, CA, 2020.

Wallace, G.C.; Downey, J.P.; Chorney, J.; Schumacher, K.; Bayless, T.  Statistical Optimization of Tungsten Carbide Synthesis Parameters, in Jiang T. et al. eds., 10th International Symposium on High-Temperature Metallurgical Processing, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series, San Antonio, TX, 2019.

Wallace, G.C.; Downey, J.P.; Chorney, J.; Schumacher, K.; Mallard, A.  Synthesis of Nanocrystalline Carbide Ceramics via Reduction of Anion-loaded Activated Carbon Precursors, in Hwang JY. eds., 9th International Symposium on High-Temperature Metallurgical Processing, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series, Phoenix, AZ, 2018.

Wallace, G.C.; Downey, J.P.; Chorney, J.; Mallard, A.; Hutchins, D. Synthesis of Carbide Ceramics via Reduction of Adsorbed Anions on an Activated Carbon Matrix, in Hwang JY. et al. eds., 8th International Symposium on High-Temperature Metallurgical Processing, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series, San Diego, CA, 2017.

Lyons, K.; Downey, J.P.; Chorney, J. Selective Separation of Rare Earth Elements Utilizing Vapor Phase Extraction, Proceedings of the 146^th TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Rare Metal Extraction and Processing Symposium, San Diego, CA, 2017

Ruffier, B.D.; Gaede, D.W.; Downey, J.P.; Twidwell, L.G.; Chorney, J.L.; Foy, R.J.; Lyons, K.M. Bromination of Rare Earth Elements, Proceedings of the 144^th TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Drying, Roasting, and Calcining of Minerals Symposium, Orlando, FL, 2015

Gaede, D.W.; Ruffier, B.D.; Downey, J.P.; Twidwell, L.G.; Chorney, J.L.; Foy, R.J.; Lyons, K.M. Chlorination of Rare Earth Elements, Proceedings of the 144^th TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Drying, Roasting, and Calcining of Minerals Symposium, Orlando, FL, 2015

Dahnke, D. R.; Diebold, F. E.; Downey, J. L., et. al. Novel Developments in the Application of Solvent Extraction to the Recovery of Base Metals from Mixed Metal Waste Materials, in Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society, 193^rd National Meeting, American Chemical Society, Denver, CO, 1987.