UNSW Handbook Course - Extractive Metallurgy

Extractive Metallurgy - MATS5033


	Faculty: Faculty of Science
	School: School of Material Science and Engineering
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 3
	Contact Hours per Week: 2
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: MATS5013; Excluded: MATS5273.
	Offered: Semester 2 2005
	Fee Band: 2

Description

Unit 1 Hydrometallurgical Processes-
Staff Contact: Dr Haiping Sun.
Application of principles of aqueous thermodynamics, electrochemistry, chemical and electrochemica kinetics to hydrometallurgial processes: leaching of minerals and concentrates, solution purification precipitation, and other separation processes, ion-exchange and liquid-liquid extraction, electrowinning and electrorefining.
Unit 2 Light Metals Production-
Staff Contact: Professor Oleg Ostrovski
Bayer process. Thermodynamics and kinetics of electrochemical reactions. Aluminium smelting and refining. Hall-Heroult process and alternative technologies. Technologies for magnesium and titanium production. Economics and environmental issues.

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