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JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
HYDERABAD
III Year B.Tech. Met.E. II-Sem T P C
4+1* 0 4
NONFERROUS EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY
UNIT I
COPPER: Principal Ore and Minerals; Matte smelting – Blast furnace, Reverberatory, Electric furnace, Flash; Converting; Continuous production of blister Copper; Fire refining; Electrolytic refining; Hydro-Metallurgical copper extraction; Leaching processes, Recovery of copper from leach solutions; Electro-winning.
UNIT-II
ZINC: General Principles: Horizontal and vertical retort processes: Production in a Blast furnace: Leaching purification: Electrolysis, Refining.
UNIT III
LEAD: Blast furnace smelting, Refining of lead bullion
UNIT IV
ALUMINIUM: Bayer process: Hall - Heroult process: Anode effect: Efficiency of the process: Refining, Alternative processes of aluminum production.
UNIT V
MAGNESIUM: Production of a hydrous Magnesium chloride from seawater and magnesite. Electro-winning practice and problem, refining, Pidgeon and Handspring processes.
UNIT-VI
TITANIUM: Upgrading of ilmenite, chlorination of titania, Rroll’s process. Refining.
UNIT VII
URANIUM, Acid and alkali processes for digestion of uranium ores, Purification of crude salt, Production of reactor grade UO2 and uranium.
UNIT-VIII
(NICKEL) : Simplified flow sheets for the extraction of nickel, tungsten and gold. Review of non-ferrous metal industries in India.
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| Author: India 22 Dec 2007 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 5 |
TEXT BOOKS :
1. Extraction of Non-Ferrous Metals - HS Ray, KP Abraham and R. Sridhar
2. Metallurgy of Non-Ferrous Metals - WH Dennis
REFERENCES:
1. Rare Metals Hand book - C.A. Hampel
2. Nuclear Reacto General Metallurgy - N. Sevryukov, B. Kuzmin and Y. Chelishchevr
3. Engineering - S. Glass Stone and A. Sesonske.
4. Nuclear Chemical Engineering - Manstion Bendict and Thomas H. Pigfort
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