Fundamentals of Metallurgical Processes

Introduction to the Second Edition

Introduction to the First Edition


1. Thermodynamic Functions

Introduction


1.1. Conservation of Energy


1.2. Energy Degradation

General Reading


2. Solutions

Introduction


2.1. Chemical Potential of a Component in Solution


2.2. Activity and Mass Action Law


2.3. Other Partial and Integral Quantities of Mixing


2.4. Ideal, Real and Regular Solutions


2.5. Dilute Solutions


2.6. Properties of Binary Solutions

General Reading


3. Experimental and Bibliographical Methods

Introduction


3.1. Experimental Determination of Thermodynamic Data


3.2. Methods of Calculation of Thermodynamic Activities


3.3. Tabulation of Thermodynamic Data

References and General Reading


4. Heterogeneous Reactions in Metallurgy, Kinetics and Catalysis

Introduction


4.1. Transformation of a Particle by a Gas


4.2. Kinetics of Isothermal Transformation of a Particulate Bed by a Gas


4.3. Heterogeneous Catalysis


4.4. Mass Transfer Between Immiscible Liquid Phases

References and General Reading


5. Extraction of Metals

Introduction


5.1. Stability of Compounds


5.2. Processing of Sulphides


5.3. Oxide Reduction


5.4. Metallurgy of Halides


5.5. Examples of Extractive Processes (Cu, N, Pb, Zn, Sn)


6. Slags

Introduction


6.1. Structure of Slags


6.2. Properties of Slags


6.3. Activities of Slag Components

References

General Reading


7. Iron and Steel-making

Introduction


7.1. Blast Furnace Iron, Steel-making Processes


7.2. Equilibria in Iron and Steel Production

References

General Reading


8. Problems


1. Solid-Liquid-Vapor Phase Diagrams


2. Aluminothermic Reduction of Manganese Oxides


3. Iron-Silicon Solutions


4. Fe-O-Mn Equilibrium


5. Construction of the Bi-Cd Phase Diagram


6. Activity in Solution from Vapor Pressure


7. Thermodynamics of Pb-Zn Equilibrium


8. Electrochemical Measurement of Activity in Solution


9. Activity in Solution by Gibbs-Duhem Integration


10. Extraction of Ag from Pb-Ag Alloy


11. Cracking of Natural Gas


12. Calcium from Lime by Aluminothermic Reduction


13. Reduction of a Bed of Iron Oxide Particles


14. Molybdenite Roasting in a Multiple Hearth Furnace


15. Reduction of Zinc Oxide with Carbon Monoxide


16. Reduction of Zinc Oxide with Carbon


17. Roasting and Smelting of Chalcopyrite


18. Balances in the Iron Blast Furnace1


19. Manganese Distribution between Steel and Slag


20. Si and S Distribution between Steel and Slag


21. Dephosphorisation of Steel


22. Deoxidation of Steel by Aluminum


23. Dephosphorisation of Steel, FeO and CaO/SiO2 in Slag


24. Deoxidation of Steel by Methane


25. High Grade Fe-Cr by the Ugine-Perrin Process


26. TiC by Reducing TiC14 with CH4

References

Symbols

Index