Course image PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY
Minerals Engineering

This course provides the foundation in concepts underpinning physical chemistry necessary for advancement to the higher levels of study in chemistry and engineering courses.

Core topics include: atomic structure, bonding, states of matter and intermolecular forces, chemical equilibrium, aqueous solution equilibria, acid and base chemistry and transition metal chemistry, state of matter, reaction kinetics.


Course image METALLURGICAL THERMODYNAMICS
Minerals Engineering

This course provides students with the requisite knowledge in thermodynamic systems and their applications in Minerals/Metallurgical Engineering.

The content of the course includes: Thermodynamic Systems (homogeneous and heterogeneous systems), Thermochemistry (internal energy; first, second and third law of thermodynamics; enthalpy; entropy, free energy, spontaneity of reactions, heat capacity, thermodynamic activity), Equilibria Systems, Thermodynamics of Solutions (ideal and non-ideal solutions, Raoult’s law, Henry’s law, Chemical Kinetics (order of equations; first, second and zero order equations) and Ionic Equilibria

Course image MR 4 Project work check
Minerals Engineering

Project work check for the MR 20 class of the Minerals Engineering Department 

Course image Mineral Processing and Analysis
Minerals Engineering

This holds Mineral Processing and Analysis course,  MN 279 for MN II students, 2023.

Course image Metallurigical Plant Design and Control
Minerals Engineering

A metallurgical plant is an industrial establishment used to produce marketable products, through modification of existing technology or development of new technologies or strategies.

Plant design deals with the development of a new, modified or expanded industrial plant, ensures cost-effective processing of raw material into useful product and minimize capital expenditure and maximize long term profit

It entails all operations regarding;
—Cost engineering - Economic evaluation,
—Process engineering - Flow sheet and
—Design engineering - Equipment selection and coordination
It begins with the inception of the basic idea which may come from a:
—Request; e.g., particle size for road construction;
—Competition; e.g., manual to semi-automation;
—Research; changes in ore characteristics and
—Demand; shortage in commodity.




Course image Pyrometallurgy
Minerals Engineering

This course introduces students to high-temperature metallurgical processes and their applications to metals extraction and cement production.

Fuels and Combustion, Calorific Value; Environmental issues on combustion, Refractories, Drying and Calcination, Roasting, Agglomeration, Smelting, Ellingham-Richardson Diagrams, Pyrometallurgical Applications in Metal Extraction, Cement production. Mattes, slags, fluxes; Reduction of metal oxides; Metallurgical thermochemistry; Metal-oxygen phase diagrams, metal-carbide phase diagrams; Gas-solid and solid-solid reactions; Overview of smelting reduction operations