At the end of this course, the student will learn:
- Generalised treatment of thermodynamic and kinetic principles of refining processes.
- Refining of lead, fire refining of copper, steelmaking.
- Gases and inclusions in metals, degassing, deoxidation, desulfurization, stirring and injection processes.
- Special refining processes.
- Thermodynamic and kineticprinciples of electrochemical systems and processes.
- Reversible electrode potentials, polarization, recovery of metals from aqueous and fused salt solutions.
- Electrorefining, electroplating, electropolishing processes, anodizing and integral coloring.
- Melting, remelting and melt preparation.