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Treatise on Process Metallurgy
Volume 4: Industrial Plant Design and Process Modeling
- 2nd Edition - August 23, 2024
- Editors: Alexander McLean, Seshadri Seetharaman, Roderick Guthrie, Sridhar Seetharaman, H. Y. Sohn
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 4 8 0 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 4 8 1 - 8
Treatise on Process Metallurgy: Volume Four, Industrial Production provides academics with the fundamentals of the manufacturing of metallic materials, from raw materials into fini… Read more
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Request a sales quoteTreatise on Process Metallurgy: Volume Four, Industrial Production provides academics with the fundamentals of the manufacturing of metallic materials, from raw materials into finished parts or products. In these fully updated volumes, coverage is expanded into four volumes, including Process Fundamentals, encompassing process fundamentals, structure and properties of matter; thermodynamic aspects of process metallurgy, and rate phenomena in process metallurgy; Processing Phenomena, encompassing interfacial phenomena in high temperature metallurgy, metallurgical process phenomena, and metallurgical process technology; Metallurgical Processes, encompassing mineral processing, aqueous processing, electrochemical material and energy processes, and iron and steel technology, non-ferrous process principles and production technologies, and more.
The work distills the combined academic experience from the principal editor and the multidisciplinary four-member editorial board.
- Provides the entire breadth of process metallurgy in a single work
- Includes in-depth knowledge in all key areas of process metallurgy
- Approaches the topic from an interdisciplinary perspective, providing broad range coverage on topics
Chapter 1: Metallurgical Production Technology
1. Industrial Production of metals and alloys: Introduction
1.1. Metallurgical Production Plant – Project stage
1.1.1 Conceptualisation
1.1.2 Site Readiness Assessment
1.1.3 Metallurgical Production Plant – Techno-Economics
1.1.4. Award of Contracts
1.1.5. Earth Work
1.1.6. Civil and Structural Work
1.1.7. Equipment Erection Work
1.1.8. Cold Commissioning
1.1.9. Hot Commissioning
1.1.10. Quality Control -- At Project Stage
1.2. Process Concepts for Upscaling
1.2.1. Introduction
1.2.2. Applications in Ironmaking
1.2.3. Applications in Steelmaking
1.3. Metallurgical Production Plant – Production stage
1.3.1 Iron making technologies – present and future
1.3.2. Steel Making technologies – present and future
1.4. Metallurgical Production Plant – Quality Control Systems
1.5. Metallurgical Production Plant – Utilities
1.5.1. Electric Power Supply
1.5.2. Water Supply System and Argon, Nitrogen and Compressed Air
1.5.3. Oxygen Supply
1.5.4. Pneumatic Systems
1.5.5. Hydraulic Systems
1.6. Metallurgical Production Plant – Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
1.6.1 Machine Learning, AI, Neural Network and Data Analytics
1.7. Metallurgical Production Plant – Gas Energy & Co Product
1.7.1.Gas & Energy management
1.7.2. Co-Products management
1.8. Start-up and functioning of a ferrous or non-ferrous metal production plant
Chapter 2: Modelling of Industrial Processes
2.1 Principles of and General Approach to Process Modeling
2.2 Modeling of unit processes
2.2.1 Thermodynamic Equilibrium Process Modeling
2.2.2 Reaction Engineering Models
2.2.3 CFD Modeling
2.2.4 AI/Neural Network Approach
2.3 Modeling of Mineral Processing Operations
2.3.1 Comminution processes
2.3.2 Flotation processes
2.4 Modeling of Ferrous production processes [Subsection]
2.4.1 Blast furnace
2.4.2 Modeling of the FINEX Process
2.4.3 Converters
2.4.4 Secondary steelmaking
2.4.4.1 modeling based on the thermodynamics
2.4.4.2 RH Process
2.4.4.3 Ladle Process
2.4.5 Ferroalloy production
2.4.6 Inclusion removal
2.4.7 Continuous casting
2.5 Modeling of Base-Metal Smelting Processes
2.5.1 Overall plant operation
2.5.2 Flash smelting
2.5.3 Flash converting
2.5.4 Bath smelting
2.6 Modeling of hydrometallurgical processes
2.6.1 Leaching
2.6.2 Electrolytic Processes
2.7 Modeling of light metal-production processes
2.7.1 Hall-Heroult Cells
Nomenclature
- No. of pages: 928
- Language: English
- Edition: 2
- Published: August 23, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323854801
- eBook ISBN: 9780323854818
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Alexander McLean
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Seshadri Seetharaman
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Roderick Guthrie
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Sridhar Seetharaman
Sridhar Seetharaman is the Fulton Professor of Industrial Decarbonization at Arizona State University. He received his undergraduate degree from the Royal Institute of Technology and his PHD from MIT. He is a Distinguished Member and Fellow of the Association for Iron and Steel Technology.
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