Rajdeep boarding the flight.
Here we are in a hotel in Lima, arrived very early, and waiting to reach the check-in time
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The following photographs are taken in Lima, where we visited Molycop production facilities. To get to Peru, we flew from Gatwick London to Madrid and then to Lima. Related QMUL news story.
Rajdeep boarding the flight.
Here we are in a hotel in Lima, arrived very early, and waiting to reach the check-in time
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 Rajdeep on the right |
 A walk through Lima |
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 Hamid Pourasiabi (Molycop) in the background |
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 The bust depicts General Francisco Morazán, a Central American hero and former President of the Federal Republic of Central America. The monument was gifted by the Honduran government to the city of Lima. |
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 Lovely view of the Pacific ocean |
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 Paul Shelly (Molycop) |
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In the plane bound for Ariquipa
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The terrain from the sky.
Arequipa is on the east of the mountains that separate it from the Pacific Ocean.
This region has an annual rainfall of only 100 mm, which compares with Cambridge that has 570 mm.
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Bar stock from which the grinding balls are made.
Red-hot bar entering the process.
The factory itself is hot, so here you see us in the laboratory afterward, looking a bit sweaty.
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Discussions in X-ray laboratory
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Mirador de Yanahuara
The structure in the background is part of a series of arches built in the 19th century using sillar, the white volcanic stone that gives Arequipa its nickname, "The White City."
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Mural depicting life in old Arequipa
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Two talks, one dealing with the mechanism of the bainite transformation in steels, and the other with the computer program we have developed. Intense and productive discussions with Molycop staff and scientists.
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Standing, from left: Javier Castro (General Manager, Molycop Peru), Carlos Condo (Plant Manager, Molycop Peru), Mauricio Trucco (Global Product Development Manager, Molycop Chile), Annie Nuñez (Chief Metallurgist, Molycop Peru), Yourself, Ingrid Neira (R&D Engineer, Molycop Chile), Chinnapat, Paul Shelley, Carlos Garcia (Metallurgical Laboratory Engineer, Innovation).
Sitting from left: Christian Oviedo (New Product Development Engineer, Molycop Peru), (new employee of Molycop Peru), Cesar Poma (Senior Application Engineer, Molycop Peru), Levi Guzman (Technical Director of Application Engineering, Molycop Peru), Hamid and Rajdeep.
