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Terminated in academic year 2011/2012

Theory of Pyro-, Hydro and Electrometallurgy

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 637-0401/01
Abbreviation TPHE
Course title Theory of Pyro-, Hydro and Electrometallurgy
Credits 7
Coordinating department Department of Non-ferrous Metals, Refining and Recycling
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Miroslav Kursa, CSc.

Subject syllabus

· Thermodynamic and kinetic description of pyro-metallurgical processes of production of non-ferrous metals, thermal dissociation, oxidising roasting, sulphatising roasting, reduction, chlorination and chloridation.
· Kellog’s and Ellingham’s diagrams.
· Melting, properties of melts of slags for non-ferrous metals, grits, speisses and raw metals.
· Distillation, sublimation, condensation.
· Thermodynamics and kinetics of hydro-metallurgical processes for production of non-ferrous metals – leaching.
· Pourbaix’s diagrams.
· Chemical processing and cleaning of spent liquor by pressure reduction, cementation, condensing, adsorption, ion exchange, extraction.
· Theory of electro-metallurgy – electrolytic dissolution and deposition of metals from aqueous solutions and melts, standard electrode and redox potentials, decomposition voltage, overvoltage of hydrogen and oxygen.

E-learning

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Literature

Stølen, Svein: Chemical thermodynamics of materials : macroscopic and microscopic aspects, 2004 by John Wiley & Sons Ltd, England
ISBN 0-471-49230-2 
Alcock,C.B.: Thermochemical processes:principles and models. Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford OX2 8DP, 2001, pp. 371 ISBN 0 7506 5155 5 
ASM Handbook. Vol.2, Properties and Selection: Nonferrous Alloys and Special-Purpose Material. 10th edition, ASM International, 2000, 1328 p. ISBN 0-87170-378-5

Advised literature

Moore, J. J.: Chemical Metallurgy. Oxford, 1990, 435 s