Extractive metallurgy is the art and science of extracting metalsfrom their ores and refining them. The production of metals andalloys from these source materials is still one of the mostimportant and fundamental industries in both developed anddeveloping economies around the world. The outputs and products areessential resources for the metallic, mechanical, electromagnetic,electrical and electronics industries (silicon is treated as ametal for these purposes).
This series is devoted to the extraction of metals from ores,concentrates (enriched ores), scraps, and other sources and theirrefining to the state of either liquid metal before casting or tosolid metals. The extraction and refining operations that arerequired may be carried out by various metallurgical reactionprocesses.
Extractive Metallurgy 1 deals with the fundamentals ofthermodynamics and kinetics of the reaction processes. ExtractiveMetallurgy 2 focuses on pyrometallurgical, hydrometallurgical,halide and electro-metallurgical (conversion) processes. ExtractiveMetallurgy 3 deals with the industrial processing operations,technologies, and process routes, in other words the sequence ofsteps or operations used to convert the ore to metal. Processes andoperations are studied using the methodology of "chemicalreaction engineering".
As the fundamentals of the art and science of ExtractiveMetallurgy are infrequently taught as dedicated university orengineering schools courses, this series is intended both forstudents in the fields of Metallurgy and Mechanical Engineering whowant to acquire this knowledge, and also for engineers put incharge of the operation of an industrial production unit or thedevelopment of a new process, who will need the basic knowledge ofthe corresponding technology.
Alain Vignes
Industrial Engineering Industrial Engineering / Manufacturing Industrielle Verfahrenstechnik Metallurgie Produktion i. d. Industriellen Verfahrenstechnik
"The books are addressed to students in the field of metallurgy andto engineers facing the problem of metal and alloy development."(World of Metallurgy, 2011)
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