METE306Undergraduate
Chemical Principles of Primary Materials Processing
Printed in the catalogue as CHEMICAL PRINCIPLES OF PRIMARY MATERIALS PROCESSING
Course content
Unit operations and unit processes in metallurgy. Overview of pyro, hydro, and electrometallurgical principles. Thermodynamics and kinetics of chemical reactions. Effects of concentration and temperature on rates of chemical reactions. Pretreatment, reduction, smelting and matte smelting processes with selected examples on the metallurgy of copper, iron, zinc and lead. Stoichiometric principles, charge calculations,and material balance. Heat balance; choice of reactions, with selected examples on nonferrous metals and ferrous alloys.
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- Metallurgical and Materials EngineeringYear 3, Spring semester
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