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