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Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

Noble and Precious Metals

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 653-3310/02
Abbreviation UVK
Course title Noble and Precious Metals
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Materials Engineering and Recycling
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.

E-learning

not evalaible

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
DONACHIE, M.J. Titanium: a technical guide. 2nd ed. Materials Park: ASM International, 2000. ISBN 0-87170-686-5.

Advised literature

CHANDLER, H. Metallurgy for the non-metallurgist. Materials Park: ASM International, 1998. ISBN 0-87170-652-0.