This book covers various metallurgical topics, viz. roasting of sulfide minerals, matte smelting, slag, reduction of oxides and reduction smelting, interfacial phenomena, steelmaking, secondary steelmaking, role of halides in extraction of metals, refining, hydrometallurgy and electrometallurgy. Each chapter is illustrated with appropriate examples of applications of the technique in extraction of some common, reactive, rare or refractory metal together with worked out problems explaining the principle of the operation.

Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2014 the Third International Conference on Chemical Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering and Metallic Materials (CMMM 2014), Guilin, China, June 20-21, 2014. The 192 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Biotechnology, Medical and Chemical Engineering, Chapter 2: Material Engineering and Technologies, Applied Materials, Chapter 3: Metallurgical and Mining Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering Applications, Chapter 4: Energy and Power, Wells, Resources and Flow Development, Environmental Engineering and Technologies

Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2013 Second International Conference on Chemical Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering and Metallic Materials (CMMM 2013), August 3-4, 2013, Dali, China. The 106 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Chemical Engineering, Bio, Environmental Chemistry Engineering and Technologies; Chapter 2: Materials Engineering; Chapter 3: Mining and Metallurgical Engineering; Chapter 4: Manufacturing and Industry Technologies, Mechatronics Engineering.

Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). This work brings together some 280 peer-reviewed papers on Chemical Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Engineering. It will certainly serve to promote the development of Chemical, Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, the strengthening of international academic cooperation and communication, and the exchange of research ideas offering, as it does, a broad overview of the latest advances in the field of Materials and Chemical Engineering.

This book is intended as a text for upper undergraduate and graduate courses on kinetics of metallurgical processes for students of materials science, metallurgical engineering, and chemical engineering. Focusing on basic and essential topics, selected from the authors’ teaching and research, it serves as a comprehensive guide to metallurgical kinetics. Chapters 1–10 discuss the “logic” of various kinetics processes, while Chapter 11 explores the systematic analysis of raw rate data generated from controlled experiments. The final chapters illustrate how the fundamental concept of thermal activation is used to describe the kinetics of rate-dependent plastic deformation and creep fracture. With numerous examples, illustrations, and step-by-step tutorials, it is ideally suited for both self-study and classroom use. The examples were selected from research papers to highlight how the topics discussed can be, and are, used to solve real-world technological problems. Providing a comprehensive list of resources for further study, and end-of-chapter review questions to help students test their knowledge, it can be used for university coursework or as a text for professional development courses.