Principles of Extractive Metallurgy
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The official GTU curriculum for Principles of Extractive Metallurgy (subject code 2142102) as prescribed for Metallurgy · Semester 4 divides the course into 6 units, covering 27 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2142102)Unit 1 Extractive Metallurgy
- Advantages and limitations of Different extraction Processes
- Comparison in Pyrometallurgy and hydrometallurgy
Unit 2 Pyrometallurgy
- Pyrometallurgical processes using vacuum
- Thermodynamic stability diagrams (Ellingham diagram)
- Use of Ellingham diagram in pyrometallurgy
- limitations of Ellingham diagrams
- Metallic-oxide reduction by C, CO, hydrogen and metals
- Principles of metallothermic reduction and halide metallurgy
- Physico-chemical principles of fused salt electrolysis
Unit 3 Hydrometallurgy
- General considerations
- Leaching -reagents
- role of oxygen
- pressure leaching
- Bacterial leaching
- Solvent extraction
- Ion exchange
- Gaseous reduction of aqueous solutions
Unit 4 Electrometallurgy
- Electrowinning and Electrorefining of metals from aqueous and fused salt systems
- Fundamentals of unit process
Unit 5 Flow-sheets of Extraction of Important Metals
- Simplified Flow-sheets for the production of Iron and Steel
- Tin and Magnesium
Unit 6 Reaction Kinetics
- Order of Reaction and Molecularity
- Arrhenius Equation
- Theories of Reaction Kinetics
- Role of Activation Energy
- Collision Theory
- Theory of Absolute Reaction Rate
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