MET 610 - Pyrometallurgy

(3 units)

Quantitative and descriptive treatment of the unit processes used and fundamentals of smelting, melting, refining of metals by high temperature methods.

Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Spring

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. identify mineral or mine samples as candidates for pyrometallurgical processing.
2. develop a pyrometallurgical process design and flowsheet for an ore given appropriate analytical data.
3. describe pyrometallurgical processing, separation, metal extraction and recovery for candidate ore samples.
4. identify, explain, and moderate environmental hazards of pyrometallurgical processing.

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