Energy and Power

Energy & Power is a journal publishing research and reviewing articles in all important aspects of energy and power engineering. Both experimental and theoretical papers are acceptable provided they report important findings, novel insights, or useful techniques.

Dean Millar

Editorial Board Member of Energy and Power

Professor, School of Engineering, Laurentian University, Canada

Research Areas

Energy Management, Renewable Energy, Mining Engineering, Economics Resource Assessment and Appraisal of Energy and Mining Developments

Education

2008Ph.DRock Mechanics, Imperial College
1989B.EngMining Engineering, Imperial College

Experience

2010-presentLaurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Full Professor, Energy in Mining
2010-presentMining Innovation, Rehabilitation and Applied Research Corporation. Director Energy Renewables & Carbon Management
2010-presentHonorary Visiting Professor, Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter
2010-presentZigPlug Ltd Founding partner/Director in University 'spin-out' company
2009-2010University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, Co-ordinator of the Pennisula Research Institute for Marine Renewable Energy
2009-2010University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, Head of Renewable Energy Research within Camborne School of Mines
2005-2009Community Energy Plus, Trustee
2005-2010Sustain Cornwall Ltd, Director (& Trustee of parent charity from 2008)
1998-2010University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, Senior Lecturer, Renewable Energy & Mining Engineering
1993-1997Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, London. Lecturer in Engineering Rock Mechanics
1991-1993Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, London. Research Student within the Engineering Rock Mechanics Research Group
1989-1990G. Maunsell and Partners, Penge, South London. Geotechnical Engineer
1985-1986Anglo-American Corporation of South Africa Ltd. Learner Official

Membership

Fellow of the Institution of Materials, Minerals & Mining
Member of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy & Petroleum
Member, Ontario Mining Association Energy Committee
Member, Canada Mining Innovation Council Energy Technical Committee

Publications: Conferences/Workshops/Symposiums/Journals/Books

[1]  Millar, D.L., Fava, L. And McKinnon, D.L., 2011. An automated procedure for conceptual design of orebody extraction. In preparation for Mining Technology (IMM Trans. A)
[2]  Millar, D.L. and Ramcharan, C., 2011. Offshore wind resource assessment for mining operations. Proc 5th Mining and Env. Int. Conf., Sudbury, June 25th-27th. In press.
[3]  Levesque, M. and Millar, D.L., 2011. Energy Sankey Diagrams in the Minerals Industry. Proc 5th Mining and Env. Int. Conf., Sudbury, June 25th-27th. In press.
[4]  Waine, J. and Millar, D.L., 2011. CryoVent-Low or zero carbon cryogenic ventilation for deep mines. Proc 5th Mining and Env. Int. Conf., Sudbury, June 25th-27th. In press.
[5]  Trapani, K. & Millar, D.L. 2011. Powering mines in the McFaulds Lake area using large scale array of floating PV panels. Proc 5th Mining and Env. Int. Conf., Sudbury, June 25th-27th. In press.
[6]  Millar, D.L., Levesque, M., Lyle, G., and Bullock, K. 2011. Enabling advanced energy management practice for minerals operations. Proc. Ann. CIM Conf. and Exhibition, Montreal, May 22nd-25th, 2011. In press.
[7]  Smith, H.C.M., Pearce, C. and Millar, D.L. 2011. Further analysis of change in nearshore wave climate due to offshore wave farms. Renewable Energy, Accepted
[8]  Fava, L., Millar, D.L. and Maybee, B. 2011. Scenario Evaluation through Mine Schedule Optimisation. Mine Planning 2011: 2nd International Seminar on Mine Planning, Antofagusta, Chile, 8th-10th June 2011. In press.
[9]  Millar, D.L., Brown, T.J., Kruyswijk, J.B., Smith, N., Coggan, J.S., Foster, P.J., Steadman, E.J., Evans, D.J., Hewitt, J. 2011. Assessing the feasibility of underground mining of aggregates in southern and eastern England. Proc. Conf. Extractive Industry Geology, Portsmouth, UK, September 2010. In press
[10]  Millar, D.L. and Parish, D.N., 2010. Electricity Generating Apparatus. GB Patent. Application number: GB0821160.9/GB2465485A. Publication date: 26 May 2010
[11]  Brown T.J., Coggan J.S., Evans D.J., Foster P.J., Hewitt J., Kryswijk J.B., Millar D.L., Smith N., Steadman E.J., 2010. Underground Mining of Aggregate. MIRO/ASRP Project 7 Final Report. MA/1/S/01, 316 pages.
[12]  Greaves, D., Smith, G., Attrill, M., Belmont, M., Chadwick, A., Conley, D., Eccleston, A., Godley, B., Harrington, N., Hor, C.L., Hosegood, P., Johanning, L., Millar, D., Pan, S., Reeve, D., Williams, J., Wolfram, J., Xu, J., Zobaa, A., Zou, Q., 2009. Development of Marine Renewable Energy in the South West of England. Proc. Inst Civ. Eng., Maritime Engineering, MA4, pp 187-196.
[13]  Millar, D.L., and Caslake, R., 2009. Fuel Flow Meters: Individual and Turnkey. Sea Fish Industry Authority Research and Development Fact Sheet FS25-03-09.
[14]  Hor, C.L., Crossley, P., Watson, S., and Millar, D.L. 2009. Developing a Knowledge-Based System using Rough Set Theory and Genetic Algorithms for Substation Fault Diagnosis. Book chapter in: Rough Set Theory, A true landmark in data analysis. Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer. ISBN: 978-3-540-89920-4
[15]  Millar, D.L. and Caslake, R., 2008. Fuel Flow Meters. Sea Fish Industry Authority Research and Development Fact Sheet FS18-12-08. http://www.seafish.org/pdf.pl?file=seafish/Documents/FS18_12 08_Fuel Flow meters.pdf
[16]  Clifford, T. and Millar, D.L., 2008. Fuelstar Fuel Conditioner Testing: update after further baseline tests. Technical report prepared for the Sea Fisheries Industry Authority and the Northern Ireland Fish Producers Organisation. 4 pages.
[17]  Clifford, T., Millar, D.L. and Parish, D., 2008. Additional Fuel Systems Testing: Determinations of the effect of the "Fuelstar" fuel conditioning device on the fuel consumption of a marine diesel engine. Technical report prepared for the Sea Fisheries Industry Authority and the Northern Ireland Fish Producers Organisation. 30 pages.
[18]  Millar, D.L. and Caslake, R., 2008. Fuel Additives. Sea Fish Industry Authority Research and Development Fact Sheet FS6-11-08. http://www.seafish.org/pdf.pl?file=seafish/Documents/FS6_11 08_Fuel additives.pdf
[19]  Barbour, C., Clifford, T., Millar, D., Young, R., 2008. Fuel Flow Metering for Fishing Vessels, Phase III Report: Fuel meter testing on a diesel engine. Technical report prepared for the Sea Fisheries Industry Authority, Marine and Fisheries Agency and The Scottish Government. 88 pages.
[20]  Barbour, C., Clifford, T., Millar, D., Young, R., 2008. Fuel Flow Metering for Fishing Vessels, Phase II Report: Fuel meter tests under laboratory conditions. Technical report prepared for the Sea Fisheries Industry Authority, Marine and Fisheries Agency and The Scottish Government. 70 pages.
[21]  Barbour, C., Clifford, T., Millar, D., Young, R., 2008. Fuel Flow Metering for Fishing Vessels, Phase I Report: Preliminary Work. Technical report prepared for the Sea Fisheries Industry Authority, Marine and Fisheries Agency and The Scottish Government. 26 pages.
[22]  Clifford, T., Millar, D.L., Parish, D. 2008. Fuel Systems Testing: Determinations of the effect of (electro-) magnetic installations, a fuel additive and a lubricant additive on diesel fuel consumption. Technical report prepared for the Sea Fish Industry Authority, Marine & Fisheries Agency, South West Regional Development Authority & The Scottish Government. 64 pages.
[23]  Millar, D.L., 2008. Parallel Distributed Processing in Rock Engineering Systems. PhD Thesis, Department of Earth Science & Engineering, Imperial College, London
[24]  Clifford, T., Millar, D.L., Parish, D. and Wood, N. 2008. Diesel Fuel Additives Testing, Summary for Fishermen. Technical report prepared for the Sea Fish Industry Authority, Marine & Fisheries Agency, South West Regional Development Authority & The Scottish Government. 19 pages.
[25]  Clifford, T., Millar, D.L., Parish, D. and Wood, N. 2008. Diesel Fuel Additives Testing, Full Technical Report. Technical report prepared for the Sea Fish Industry Authority, Marine & Fisheries Agency, South West Regional Development Authority & The Scottish Government. 99 pages.
[26]  Clifford, T., Millar, D.L., Parish, D. and Wood, N. 2008. Design of a containerised biodiesel production plant. Technical report prepared for the Sea Fish Industry Authority, Marine & Fisheries Agency, South West Regional Development Authority & The Scottish Government. 23 pages.
[27]  Clifford, T., Millar, D.L., Parish, D. and Wood, N. 2008. Bio-fuel engine test cell facility. Technical report prepared for the Sea Fish Industry Authority, Marine & Fisheries Agency, South West Regional Development Authority & The Scottish Government. 46 pages.
[28]  Clifford, T., Millar, D.L., Parish, D. and Wood, N. 2008. Biodiesel at Sea. Technical report prepared for the Sea Fish Industry Authority, Marine & Fisheries Agency, South West Regional Development Authority & The Scottish Government. 24 pages.
[29]  Clifford, T.P., Millar, D.L., Parish, D., and Wood, N.A., 2007. Biofuels for the Fishing Industry, Report for DEFRA/Sea Fisheries Authority, pp263
[30]  Millar, D.L. Wave and tidal energy technologies. 2007. Book chapter in: 'Energy …Beyond Oil.', Oxford University Press. (Armstrong, F. and Blundell, K. eds). ISBN13: 9780199209965, ISBN10: 0199209960
[31]  Millar, D.L., Smith, H.C.M, and Reeve, D.E., 2007. Modelling studies of the sensitivity of the shoreline wave climate to the proposed wave hub development off the north coast of Cornwall. Ocean Engineering, An International Journal. Vol. 34, pp 884-901.
[32]  Smith, H.C.M, Millar, D.L., Reeve, D.E., 2007. Generalisation of wave farm impact assessment on inshore wave climate', Proceedings of 7th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference in Porto, Portugal.
[33]  Hor, C., Crossley, P.A., Millar, D.L., 2007. Application of genetic algorithm and rough set theory for knowledge extraction. Proceedings of IEEE Power Tech Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1st-5th July.
[34]  Smith, H.C.M. & Millar, D.L., 2006. Determination of scale of wave farm development for significant impact on shoreline wave climate. Young Coastal Scientists and Engineers Conference, Southampton.
[35]  University of Exeter, 2005. Measurement of Seabed Wave Energy. Patent application number 0517498.2 filed on 26th August 2005.
[36]  Smith, H.C.M. and Millar D.L., 2005. Detailed wave climate modelling off the north Cornwall coast. Proceedings COZONE UK Young Coastal Scientists' and Engineers' Conference (YCSEC) 6-7th January 2005 University of Nottingham. (http://cozone.org.uk/nott%5Chsmith.pdf).
[37]  Smith, H.C.M. and Millar, D.L., 2005. Design of a cost effective seabed sensor platform. Proceedings, 5th British Institute of Energy Economics (BIEE) Academic Conference, St John's College, Oxford 22nd-23rd September 2005.
[38]  Scholes, H., Millar, D.L., Eyre, J., Dibley, R., Davey, G., Haywood, M. 2004. A study to investigate the possibility of utilising abandoned coastal mine shafts in Cornwall as oscillating water column (OWC) wave power generating devices. pp268. Report for Energy Technology Support Unit/Future Energy Solutions, DTI contract V/06/00196/OO/REP.
[39]  Millar, D.L., Eyre, J.M., Scholes, H., 2003. Monitoring wave driven air flows in disused coastal mine workings in Cornwall. Proceedings of the 5th European Wave Energy Conference, Cork, Ireland. 17th-20th September 2003.
[40]  Knill, J.L., Hutchinson, J.N., Millar, D.L., and Trewin, N.H., 2002. Discussion of 'Coast erosion at a nuclear waste shaft, Dounreay, Scotland' Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology & Hydrogeology, Vol 35, pp 96.
[41]  Hutchinson, J.N., Millar, D.L., and Trewin, N.H. 2001. Coast erosion at a nuclear waste shaft, Dounreay, Scotland. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology & Hydrogeology, Vol 34, pp 245-268.
[42]  Hutchinson, J.N. and Millar, D.L. 2001. The Graig Goch landslide dam, Meirionnydd, Mid Wales. In: The Quaternary of West Wales, Field Guide. Walker, M.J.C. and McCarrol, D. (eds.), Quaternary Research Association, London, pp 113-125.
[43]  Hutchinson, J.N., and Millar, D.L., 1998. Surveying of the interglacial chalk cliff and associated debris at Black Rock, Brighton. In: The Quaternary of Kent & Sussex, Field Guide. Murton et al (eds.). Quaternary Research Association, London, pp 135-146.
[44]  Mazzocola, D.F., Millar, D.L., and Hudson, J.A., 1997. Uncertainty, information and decision making in geotechnical site investigation. Geotech. & Geol. Eng. Vol. 15, No. 2 pp 145-180.
[45]  Amorosi, A., Millar, D.L. and Rampelo, S., 1996. On the use of artificial neural networks as generic descriptors of geomaterial mechanical behaviour. Proc. ISRM Int. Symp. (EUROCK '96) Turin, Italy, 2nd-5th September 1996, pp 161-168.
[46]  Millar, D. L., 1996. Automated back analysis of ground response in rock and soils via evolutionary computing. Proc. ISRM Int. Symp. (EUROCK '96) Turin, Italy, 2nd-5th September 1996, pp 975-982.
[47]  Clarici, E., Millar, D.L. and Owen, D., 1994. On the Practical Use of Artificial Neural Networks in Minerals Engineering. Proc. 3rd Cong. of Italian-Brazillian Mining Engineering, Verona, Italy, 26th-27th September 1994, pp 183-187.
[48]  Millar, D.L., Clarici, E., Calderbank, P.A., and Marsden, J.R., 1995. On the practical use of a neural network strategy for the modelling of the deformability behaviour of Croslands Sandstone rock. Conf. Application of Computers and Operations Research in the Minerals Industries (APCOM 95), Brisbrane, 10th-14th July 1995, pp 457-465.
[49]  Millar, D.L., and Calderbank, P.A., 1995. On the investigation of a multilayer feedforward neural network model of rock deformability behaviour. Proc. 8th Int. Cong. Rock Mechanics, Tokyo, Japan, 25-30 September 1995, pp 933-938.
[50]  Millar, D.L., and Jiao, Y., 1994. On the Use of Genetic Algorithms in Modelling the Deformability Behaviour of Rock. Proc. 4th Nat. Cong. of Young Italian Geotechnical Engineers, 22-26 October, Riccione, Italy. (Invited paper).
[51]  Millar, D.L., Jiao, Y., and Hudson, J.A., 1994. Rock Engineering Systems Approach to Risk Assessment. Proc. Conf. Risk Assessment in the Extractive Industry, 23-24 March 1994, Exeter, UK, 19p.
[52]  Millar, D.L. and Hudson J.A., 1994. Performance monitoring of rock engineering systems using neural networks. Trans. Inst. Min. Metall., Vol 103, p A3-16.
[53]  Millar, D.L. and Clarici E., 1994. Investigation of back-propagation artificial neural networks in modelling of the stress-strain behaviour of sandstone rock. Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Neural Networks, June 26-July 2, Orlando, Florida, USA. Vol 7.
[54]  Millar, D.L. and Hudson J.A., 1993. Rock engineering performance monitoring by use of neural networks. Pre-prints Conf. Artificial Intelligence in the Minerals Sector, 20 April, Nottingham, UK, 24p.