Led EGA’s primary aluminium production portfolio, including power generation, ports operation, carbon production, reduction, technology development and transfer, and served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Company.
Led reduction operations across EGA’s two smelters in the UAE, optimizing plants performance while creeping the production and maintaining sound safety records.
Led Jebel Ali’s Reduction Department, with responsibility for production, safety, financial performance and long-term operational development.
Led improvement initiatives focused on energy efficiency, carbon consumption, PFC emissions and production costs. Deeply involved in the technology development process, working on new technologies such as D18+, DX+Ultra and D20+, upgrading existing technologies of the Company including DX, DX+, CD20, D20 and D18, developing control systems, and transferring technology to a newly built smelter. The innovation continued throughout further assignments.
Worked on improving smelter performance through process optimisation, energy reduction and better operational efficiency.
Managed the development of high-amperage aluminium reduction technologies and their progression from engineering to building pilot plants and toward industrial implementation.
Led technology-development projects focused on efficient, competitive aluminium reduction systems and their industrial application, including technology transfer and support to the Khakass aluminium smelter, and two other projects.
Worked on the development, testing and implementation of new high-amperage reduction technologies.
Helped develop RUSAL’s production system across both pre-bake and Søderberg technologies.
Began career in potroom operations, planning and managing safety and performance of a shift crew in a potline, running reduction process while improving day-to-day operational performance.
Across seven patent families published between 2007 and 2017, my contribution spans the full aluminium reduction system — from cathode design and cell electrical infrastructure to digital sensing, advanced process control and operational safety.
Together, these demonstrate a consistent approach to industrial innovation: understand the operating challenge, engineer a practical solution, test it against real conditions and use evidence to improve performance.
Co-inventor of patented electrical connection technology designed to improve reliability, maintainability and practical implementation in high-current aluminium reduction cells.
The patent describes lower electrical losses and a design capable of reducing cell-replacement downtime by one full day, equivalent in its example to approximately three tonnes of aluminium production at 400 kA.
Co-inventor of patented process-control technology combining live operating measurements with dynamic modelling to estimate conditions that are difficult to measure directly inside aluminium reduction cells.
The approach supports more precise identification of local process abnormalities and earlier operational intervention.
Co-inventor of patented smart-sensing technology for monitoring individual anode currents in aluminium reduction cells.
Industrial examples demonstrate its use in identifying blocked feeders, abnormal anode setting, anode spikes and conditions associated with PFC risk — helping make local operating behaviour visible earlier.
Co-inventor of patented cathode technology developed to improve aluminium reduction cell performance through practical changes to cell geometry.
Operating examples documented in the patent recorded a 50–60 mV reduction in cell voltage with no observed loss of aluminium production, demonstrating a direct link between engineering design and energy efficiency.
Co-inventor, with V.V. Pingin, S.G. Shakhrai, Y.A. Popov and E.R. Shaidulin, of an environmental and operational safety device for handling, sealing and transporting hot, fluoride-emitting anode butts after removal from the reduction cell.
Co-inventor of a method for applying a wettable coating to a cathode, bonding titanium diboride (TiB₂) or similar refractory materials to carbon cathode blocks to create a stable, wetted aluminium film.
The technology allows for a reduced Anode-Cathode Distance (ACD) and significant energy savings.
Co-inventor of a method for welding current leads of an aluminium reduction cell, improving the structural and electrical integrity of cell busbars and collector bars to handle higher amperage loads without excessive voltage drops.
46 technical papers presented across TMS Light Metals, ICSOBA and AASTC proceedings, 2007–2023.
Light Metals 2023 — TMS
41st International ICSOBA Conference — Dubai, 2023
41st International ICSOBA Conference — Dubai, 2023
40th International ICSOBA Conference — Athens, 2022
40th International ICSOBA Conference — Athens, 2022
40th International ICSOBA Conference — Athens, 2022
40th International ICSOBA Conference — Athens, 2022
Light Metals 2021 — TMS
Light Metals 2020 — TMS
Light Metals 2019 — TMS
ICSOBA 2019
Light Metals 2018 — TMS
Light Metals 2018 — TMS
ICSOBA 2018
12th Australasian Aluminium Smelting Technology Conference — AASTC 2018
Light Metals 2017 — TMS
Light Metals 2017 — TMS
Light Metals 2017 — TMS
ICSOBA 2017
Light Metals 2016 — TMS
Light Metals 2016 — TMS
Light Metals 2016 — TMS
ICSOBA 2016
ICSOBA 2016
Light Metals 2015 — TMS
Light Metals 2015 — TMS
Light Metals 2015 — TMS
Light Metals 2015 — TMS
Light Metals 2015 — TMS
ICSOBA 2015
Light Metals 2014 — TMS
Light Metals 2014 — TMS
Light Metals 2014 — TMS
AASTC 2014
AASTC 2014
AASTC 2014
AASTC 2014
AASTC 2014
AASTC 2014
Light Metals 2013 — TMS
Light Metals 2013 — TMS
Light Metals 2012 — TMS
Light Metals 2012 — TMS
ICSOBA 2012
ICSOBA 2012
9th Australasian Aluminium Smelting Technology Conference and Workshop — Sydney, 2007
25 years of advancing aluminium technology and operation, building high-performing teams and organizational climate that matters.
My technical achievements included the development of RA300, RA400, RA500, D18+, D20+, DX+, DX+U, E40 and EX technologies, the upgrading of S280, D18, CD20, D20, DX and S170, and the development of a world-leading aluminium reduction control system.
I am proud to work with the team of professionals to make EGA primary aluminium smelters among the most productive and highest-current-intensity operations in the industry, while maintaining a strong focus on safety, wellbeing, customer needs, efficiency and business performance. We reached great heights together:
Over more than two decades, my contributions to leading international aluminium conferences have included TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition / Light Metals, ICSOBA, the Australasian Aluminium Smelting Technology Conference, Aluminium of Siberia and aluminium conferences in Trondheim — spanning technical papers and presentations, session leadership and international committee membership. In 2023, I served as President of the 41st International Conference and Exhibition of ICSOBA in Dubai.