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Noble and Precious Metals

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 632-3310/02
Abbreviation UVK
Course title Noble and Precious Metals
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Materials and Technologies for Vehicles
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Ivo Szurman, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Characteristics of precious metals.
2. Gold, silver, overview of preparation technologies, properties, applications.
3. Platinum group metals, overview of preparation technologies, properties, applications.
4. Overview of methods of production of precious metals as a by-product in the production of copper, lead and nickel.
5. Amalgamation methods of preparation of precious metals.
6. Cyanide leaching, new processing methods.
7. Refining of precious metals.
8. High-melting metals, characteristics, influence on production technology.
9. Technology of preparation, processing, refining, properties and applications W, Mo, V.
10. Technology of preparation, processing, refining, properties and applications of Ta, Nb, Ti, Zr and Hf.
11. Rare metals and lanthanides, properties, production principles and their application in practice.
12. Naturally radioactive metals (U, Th) - characteristics, properties, use.
13. 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 .