Extractive Metallurgy 3 (ePub)

Extractive metallurgy is the art and science of extracting metals
from their ores and refining them. The production of metals and
alloys from these source materials is still one of the most
important and fundamental industries in both developed and
developing economies around the world. The outputs and products are
essential resources for the metallic, mechanical, electromagnetic,
electrical and electronics industries (silicon is treated as a
metal for these purposes).

This series is devoted to the extraction of metals from ores,
concentrates (enriched ores), scraps, and other sources and their
refining to the state of either liquid metal before casting or to
solid metals. The extraction and refining operations that are
required may be carried out by various metallurgical reaction
processes.



Extractive Metallurgy 1 deals with the fundamentals of
thermodynamics and kinetics of the reaction processes. Extractive
Metallurgy 2 focuses on pyrometallurgical, hydrometallurgical,
halide and electro-metallurgical (conversion) processes. Extractive
Metallurgy 3 deals with the industrial processing operations,
technologies, and process routes, in other words the sequence of
steps or operations used to convert the ore to metal. Processes and
operations are studied using the methodology of "chemical
reaction engineering".

As the fundamentals of the art and science of Extractive
Metallurgy are infrequently taught as dedicated university or
engineering schools courses, this series is intended both for
students in the fields of Metallurgy and Mechanical Engineering who
want to acquire this knowledge, and also for engineers put in
charge of the operation of an industrial production unit or the
development of a new process, who will need the basic knowledge of
the corresponding technology.