Treatise on Process Metallurgy, Volume 2B

Unit Processes

Dennis O'Hara, Matthew Eaton, Michael T. Ross, Seshadri Seetharaman, Alexander McLean, Roderick Guthrie, Sridhar Seetharaman, H. Y. Sohn

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2025
• Edition: 2
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443402951
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Christian Denominations
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Treatise on Process Metallurgy, Volume 2B: Unit Processes, presents various unit processes with an emphasis on mineral processing, hydrometallurgy, and electrochemical materials and energy processes. The book highlights the roles of these processes in beneficiation, rare-earth extraction, utilization of lean resources, coal extraction, and biofuels, reflecting the shift toward green and electrochemical processes. Basic knowledge of thermodynamics and kinetics is provided for better understanding of metallurgical processes. The first section of the book covers mineral processing, providing insight on comminution, separation processes, dewatering, and tailings disposal. The second section focuses on hydrometallurgy, discussing leaching, separation-purification, metal recovery, and battery materials, and the book concludes with a section studying electrochemical material and energy, featuring coverage of molten oxide electrolysis, molten carbonate fuel cells, various sensors, and ionic liquids. Each section also includes various case studies, demonstrating the use of the concepts in real-world settings. - Covers mineral processing, electrochemical materials, and hydrometallurgy and their roles in beneficiation, rare-earth extraction, utilization of lean resources, coal extraction, and biofuels - Provides basic knowledge on thermodynamics and kinetics needed for understanding the principles of metallurgical processes - Includes a section on electrochemical materials and energy processes, covering molten salts electrolysis, fuel cells, and nuclear molten salt reactors - Features insight into the entire process chain, unit processes that are generally overlooked, and unit processes that combine hydro-, electro-, and pyro-processes in an optimal way

Table of contents

• Treatise on Process Metallurgy
• Chapter 1 Mineral Processing
• Chapter 1.1 Mineral Processing, Importance, Introduction
• Chapter 1.2 Ore Body Knowledge—Case Studies From Complex Copper–Gold and Refractory Ores
• Chapter 1.3 Beneficiation, Physical Separation Processes
• Chapter 1.3.1 Comminution
• Chapter 1.3.2 Separation Processes
• Chapter 1.3.2.1 Classification
• Chapter 1.3.2.2 Gravity (Density) Separation
• Chapter 1.3.2.3 Dense Medium Separation
• Chapter 1.3.2.4 Flotation
• Chapter 1.3.2.5 Magnetic Separation
• Chapter 1.3.2.6 Electrostatic Separation
• Chapter 1.4 Dewatering
• Chapter 1.5 Tailing Disposal
• Chapter 1.6 Case Study—Flake Graphite Recovery From a Paragneiss Host Rock
• Chapter 1.6.1 Iron Ore
• Chapter 1.6.1.1 Iron Ore Processing Plant Process Water: A Case Study of Treatment by Electrocoagulation (EC)
• Chapter 1.6.2 Metallurgical Coal
• Chapter 1.6.3 Processing of Rare Earth Minerals: A Case Study
• Chapter 1.6.4 Industrial Minerals-Graphite
• Chapter 1.6.5 Botswana's Untold Story of the Kalahari Dust Bowl to a Mecca of Diamond Mining
• Chapter 2 Hydrometallurgy
• Chapter 2.1 Importance of Hydrometallurgy, Introduction
• Chapter 2.2 Extraction
• Chapter 2.2.1 Industrial Leaching Chemistries
• Chapter 2.2.2 Leaching Kinetics
• Chapter 2.2.3 Heap Leaching: Process, Principles, and Practical Considerations
• Chapter 2.2.4 Tank Leaching
• Chapter 2.2.5 Bioleaching
• Chapter 2.2.6 Autoclave Leaching
• Chapter 2.3 Separation and Purification
• Chapter 2.3.1 Solvent Extraction
• Chapter 2.3.2 Ion Exchange for Hydrometallurgy
• Chapter 2.3.3 Precipitation and Crystallization
• Chapter 2.4 Metal Recovery
• Chapter 2.4.1 Electrowinning and Electrorefining
• Chapter 2.4.2 Hydrogen Reduction
• Chapter 2.5 Case Studies
• Chapter 2.5.1 Gold Hydrometallurgy
• Chapter 2.5.2 Copper Concentrate Processing
• Chapter 2.5.3 Nickel and Cobalt
• Chapter 2.6 Frontiers
• Chapter 2.6.1 Hydrometallurgical Processing of Li-ion Battery Materials
• Chapter 2.6.2 Rare Earth Recovery from Ion-adsorption Clays by Ion Exchange Leaching
• Chapter 2.6.3 Environmental Considerations
• Chapter 3 Electrochemical Material and Energy
• Chapter 3.1 Molten Oxide Electrolysis
• Chapter 3.2 OS Process
• Chapter 3.3 Fray-Farthing-Chen Cambridge Process: From Serendipity to Space Exploration
• Chapter 3.4 Solid Oxide Membrane (SOM)-Based Electrolytic Production of Metals
• Chapter 3.5 Molten Salt Electrochemistry of Uranium
• Chapter 3.6 Production of Carbon Nanostructures in Molten Salt
• Chapter 3.7 Thermally Activated Batteries
• Chapter 3.8 Sodium-Metal Chloride (ZEBRA) Batteries
• Chapter 3.9 The Liquid Metal Battery as a Grid-Storage Solution
• Chapter 3.10 AMTEC
• Chapter 3.11 Oxygen Sensors for Molten Steel
• Chapter 3.12 Hydrogen Sensors for Molten Aluminum and Its Alloys
• Chapter 3.13 Oxygen, Hydrogen, and Carbon Sensors for Molten Sodium
• Chapter 3.14 Ionic Liquids in Process Metallurgy
• Nomenclature
• Index