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Noble and Precious Metals

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 632-3310/01
Abbreviation UVK
Course title Noble and Precious Metals
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Materials and Technologies for Vehicles
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Ivo Szurman, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

- Characteristics of precious metals.
- Gold, silver, overview of preparation technologies, properties, applications.
- Platinum group metals, overview of preparation technologies, properties, applications.
- Overview of methods of production of precious metals as a by-product in the production of copper, lead and nickel.
- Amalgamation methods of preparation of precious metals.
- Cyanide leaching, new processing methods.
- Refining of precious metals.
- High-melting metals, characteristics, influence on production technology.
- Technology of preparation, processing, refining, properties and applications W, Mo, V.
- Technology of preparation, processing, refining, properties and applications of Ta, Nb, Ti, Zr and Hf.
- Rare metals and lanthanides, properties, production principles and their application in practice.
- Naturally radioactive metals (U, Th) - characteristics, properties, use.
- Properties, occurrence, methods of processing, use in the field of nuclear energy.

Literature

GUPTA, CH. K. Chemical metallurgy: principles and practice. Hoboken: Wiley, 2004. ISBN 3-527-60200-3 .
KURSA, M. a I. SZURMAN. Noble and precious metals. Ostrava: VŠB-TU Ostrava, 2013.
http://katedry.fmmi.vsb.cz/Opory_FMMI_ENG/AEM/Noble%20and%20Precious%20Metals.pdf

Advised literature

DONACHIE, M.J. Titanium: a technical guide. 2nd ed. Materials Park: ASM International, 2000. ISBN 0-87170-686-5 .
VIGNES, A. Extractive metalurgy 3: Processing operations and routes. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011. ISBN 978-1-84821-292-3 .
CORTI, Ch. and HOLLIDAY, R. Gold science and applications. CRC Press, 2010. ISBN 9781032099453 .
LÜTJERING, G. and WILLIAMS, J.C. Titanium, 2nd Edition. Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York, 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-71397-5 .