Guiding readers from the significance, history, and sources of materials to advanced materials and processes, this second edition textbook looks at the production and primary processing of inorganic materials, such as ceramics, metals, silicon, and some composite materials. The text encourages instructors to teach the production of all types of inorganic materials as one. While recognizing the differences between producing various types of materials, the authors focus on the commonality of thermodynamics, kinetics, transport phenomena, phase equilibria and transformation, process engineering, and surface chemistry to all inorganic materials. The text focuses on fundamentals and how fundamentals can be applied to understand how the major inorganic materials are produced and the initial stages of their processing. Understanding of these fundamentals will equip students for engineering future processes for producing materials or for studying the processing of the many less common materials not examined in this text. The text is intended for use in an undergraduate course at the junior or senior level, but will also serve as a useful introductory and reference work for graduate students and practicing scientists and engineers.

Winner of the International Solid Waste Association's 2014 Publication Award, Handbook of Recycling is an authoritative review of the current state-of-the-art of recycling, reuse and reclamation processes commonly implemented today and how they interact with one another. The book addresses several material flows, including iron, steel, aluminum and other metals, pulp and paper, plastics, glass, construction materials, industrial by-products, and more. It also details various recycling technologies as well as recovery and collection techniques. To completely round out the picture of recycling, the book considers policy and economic implications, including the impact of recycling on energy use, sustainable development, and the environment. With contemporary recycling literature scattered across disparate, unconnected articles, this book is a crucial aid to students and researchers in a range of disciplines, from materials and environmental science to public policy studies. - Portrays recent and emerging technologies in metal recycling, by-product utilization and management of post-consumer waste - Uses life cycle analysis to show how to reclaim valuable resources from mineral and metallurgical wastes - Uses examples from current professional and industrial practice, with policy and economic implications

The analysis, development, and/or operation of high temperature processes that involve the production of ferrous and nonferrous metals, alloys, and refractory and ceramic materials are covered in the book. The innovative methods for achieving impurity segregation and removal, by-product recovery, waste minimization, and/or energy efficiency are also involved. Eight themes are presented in the book: 1: High Efficiency New Metallurgical Technology 2: Fundamental Research of Metallurgical Process 3: Alloy and Materials Preparation 4: Roasting, Reduction, and Smelting 5: Sintering of Ores and Powder 6: Simulation and Modeling 7: Treatment of Solid Slag/Wastes and Complex Ores 8: Microwave Heating, Energy, and Environment

Some of the subjects presented in this volume from the Sohn International Symposium are iron making; steel; batteries, electronic scrap and light metals; waste treatment and remediation; and recycling and waste treatment. From the 2006 TMS Fall Extraction & Processing: Sohn International Symposium, held August 27–31, 2006, in San Diego, California.

The Sohn International Symposium in 2006 incorporated the fourth international symposium on sulfide smelting. This volume is dedicated to presentations made at the sulfide smelting symposium, covering sessions on sulfur and gas handling; smelter projects; technologies and recent developments; and analysis and optimizations. From the 2006 TMS Fall Extraction & Processing: Sohn International Symposium, held August 27 - 31, 2006, in San Diego, California.

These proceedings on industrial practice from the Sohn International Symposium contain papers on metals and materials processing; iron making; nonferrous high temperature processing; steel; and aqueous and electrochemical processing. From the 2006 TMS Fall Extraction & Processing: Sohn International Symposium, held August 27 - 31, 2006, in San Diego, California.

This volume focuses on proceedings from the Sohn International Symposium on thermo- and physicochemical-principles of nonferrous high temperature processing. Topics include kinetics; thermodynamics; thermodynamics and physical properties; waste treatment; and recycling and recovery. From the 2006 TMS Fall Extraction & Processing: Sohn International Symposium, held August 27-31, 2006, in San Diego, California.