Principles of Extractive Metallurgy

Extractive metallurgy as a discipline deals with the ext-raction of metals from naturally occurring and man made resources. Separation is the essence of metal extraction. Development of efficient separation schemes calls for a through understanding of extractive metallurgy principles in terms of physical chemistry (thermodynamics & kine-tics); materials and energy flow/balance, transport phenomena, reactor and reactor engineering, instrumen-tation and process control, and environment and waste management.