Introduction to Reaction Engineering, Basic Concepts in Chemical Kinetics, Collection and Analysis of Rate Data, Non-ideal flow, Diffusion and Reaction in Porous Catalysts, Behaviour of chemical reactors: ideal and non-ideal flow.
Introduction to ores and minerals; ore beneficiation; routes to metal extraction; material and heat balance in extractive processes; thermochemistry, multicomponent chemical equilibrium, activity, Gibbs Free energy; High temperature melts-structure and properties; Ellingham diagram; phase diagrams; unit processes in metal extraction-reactor types, mixing and residence times; reaction rates-heterogeneous reactions, diffusion and convection; vacuum distillation and metallurgy of volatile metals; hydrometallurgy; pyrometallurgy of metal oxides; matte smelting; metal refining; case studies in metal extraction process |