| Code |
Course Name |
Language |
Type |
| MET 474E |
Extractive Metallurgy of Non-Ferrous Metals |
English |
Elective |
| Local Credits |
ECTS |
Theoretical |
Tutorial |
Laboratory |
| 2 |
3 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
| Course Prerequisites and Class Restriction |
| Prerequisites |
None |
| Class Restriction |
None |
| Course Description |
| Metals such as; Copper, Zinc, Cadmium, Mercury, Lead, Aluminum, Antimony, Chrome, Tungsten, Molybdenum, and Gold, Silver
and Platinum group metals –either produced in Turkey or to be potentially produced, are taught in the following contents;
etymology and history, physical and chemical properties, standards, chemical compounds and alloys, production and
consumption statistics, world ore reserves, production techniques, flow sheets, environmental problems, extraction and
raffination technologies – from primary or secondary sources, the furnaces used in extraction processes, converters, leaching,
sedimentation and electrolysis. Processes, selected for the production of a given metal, are explained both in terms of the
physico-chemical properties of metals and in relation to each others. |
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