MT304

 Non Ferrous Technology

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Principles of pyrometallurgy, chemistry of  roasting, drying  and  calcination;    classification of pyrometallurgical processes, use of Ellingham diagram in pyrometallurgy

                                                         

 

Metallic oxide reduction by C, CO, hydrogen and metals; principles of metallothermic reduction and halide metallurgy; physico chemical principles of fused salt electrolysis

                                                       

 

Principles of hydrometallurgy; properties of good solvent,  leaching  and precipitation,  solvent  extraction,  ion exchange  and  pressure  leaching gaseous  reduction  of  aqueous solutions, bacterial leaching

                                                        

Extraction schemes for copper, nickel, titanium, aluminium, magnesium, indium, gold and silver

                        

Extraction of metals from secondary sources, energetics of non-ferrous extraction, extraction schemes of zinc, lead, zirconium and tantalum; prospects of non-ferrous industries in India

 

TEXT BOOKS

 

1.       Ray H. S., Sridhar R., Abraham K. P, ‘Extraction of Non- ferrous Metals’, 1st  Edition, Affiliated East West Press, 1987

2.       Rosenquist T., ‘Principles of Extractive Metallurgy’, 2nd Edition McGraw Hill, 1983