Physical Chemistry of Metallurgical Processes

This book is based on the author’s teaching and research experience in the field of Metallurgical Thermodynamics and Chemical-Extractive Metallurgy. It covers various metallurgical topics, viz. roasting of sulfide minerals, matte smelting, slag, reduction of oxides and reduction smelting, interfacial phenomena, steelmaking, secondary steelmaking, role of halides in extraction of metals, refining, hydrometallurgy and electrometallurgy. Each chapter is illustrated with appropriate examples of applications of the technique in extraction of some common, reactive, rare or refractory metal together with worked out problems explaining the principle of the operation. The problems require imagination and critical analyses. At the same time they also encourage readers for creative application of thermodynamic data. The principal objective of the book is to enlighten graduate students of metallurgy and metallurgical engineering specializing in chemical-extractive metallurgy and chemical engineering with basic principles of various unit operations involved in extraction of different types of metals. It will also be useful to senior undergraduate students of metallurgy and chemical engineering/technology.

Professor M. Shamsuddin had?served as Professor and Head of the Department of Metallurgical Engineering at Banaras Hindu University for four decades. He spent?three years (June 1978-June 1981) in the United States: one year each at the University of Chicago, University of Utah, Salt Lake City and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. At MIT, he held the position of a Visiting Associate Professor on invitation from Prof. John F. Elliott of Department of Materials Science & Engineering to teach a graduate course entitled "Physical Chemistry of Metallurgical Processes".