Extractive Metallurgy 1 : Basic Thermodynamics and Kinetics /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Vignes, Alain
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Wiley, 2010.
• Σειρά: ISTE.
• Θέματα: Extraction (Chemistry); Metallurgy.; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Metallurgy.; Electronic books.

This book is dedicated to the processes of mineral transformation, recycling and reclamation of metals, for the purpose of turning metals and alloys into a liquid state ready for pouring. Even though ""process metallurgy"" is one of the oldest technologies implemented by man, tec...

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• Cover; Extractive Metallurgy 1; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Metallurgical Thermochemistry; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Quantities characterizing the state of a system and its evolution; 1.2.1. The types of operations; 1.2.2. Stoichiometric description of a chemical system; 1.2.3. Evolution of a system's state: degree of advancement of a reaction; 1.2.4. Characteristic quantities of a phase's composition; 1.3. Thermodynamic fundamentals of reactions; 1.3.1. Reaction enthalpy.
• 1.3.2. Gibbs free energy of a system, affinity of a reaction and chemical potential of a component1.3.3. Expressions of the chemical potential and activities of a component; 1.3.4. Affinity of a reaction: law of mass action (thermodynamic modeling of a process); 1.3.5. Applications; 1.4. Phase diagrams; 1.4.1. Binary phase diagrams; 1.4.2. Ternary phase diagrams; 1.5. Bibliography; Chapter 2. Oxides, Sulfides, Chlorides and Carbides; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Metal-oxygen/metal-sulfur systems activities in the intermediate phases; 2.2.1. Phase diagrams.
• 2.2.2. Component activities in the intermediate phases2.3. Standard Gibbs free energy: temperature diagrams for oxides
• Ellingham-Richardson diagrams; 2.3.1. Stoichiometric oxides; 2.3.2. Unstoichiometric compounds; 2.3.3. Thermodynamic data for the reduction of oxides by a reducing gas; 2.4. Thermodynamic data for sulfides and chlorides; 2.4.1. Ellingham-Richardson diagram for sulfides; 2.4.2. Stability diagrams for the (M-O-S) systems; 2.4.3. Ellingham-Richardson diagram for chlorides; 2.4.4. Stability diagrams of M-O2-Cl2 systems.
• 2.5. Metal-carbon phase diagrams and the Ellingham-Richardson diagram for carbides2.6. Carbon and carbon oxide reactions; 2.6.1. Oxidation reactions; 2.6.2. Boudouard's reaction; 2.6.3. The different types of coal; 2.7. Bibliography; Chapter 3. Metal Solutions, Slags and Mattes; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Metal solutions; 3.2.1. Phase diagrams and activities of liquid alloys components; 3.2.2. Activities and solubilities of metalloids in metal solutions; 3.2.3. Solubility and precipitation of oxide and sulfide compounds in metals; 3.3. Mattes.
• 3.3.1. Structure and physical properties of sulfide melts (mattes)3.3.2. Thermodynamic data for the binary Fe-S, Ni-S, Cu-S and Pb-S systems; 3.3.3. Thermodynamic data of ternary mattes; 3.3.4. Thermodynamic data for M-O-S systems; 3.4. Slags; 3.4.1. Structure and physical properties; 3.4.2. Phase diagrams and activities; 3.4.3. Phase diagrams and activities of oxide mixtures forming the basis of metallurgical slags CaO-SiO2-Al2O3-MgO; 3.4.4. Phase diagrams and activities of mixtures of CaO-SiO2 -Al2O3-MgO oxides and reducible (iron, manganese and chrome) oxides; 3.5. Bibliography.