302280 (v.2) ChE 374 Mineral Processing

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Area:	Department of Chemical Engineering
Credits:	12.5
Contact Hours:	2.5
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	2 x 2 Hours Monthly
Anti Requisite(s):	302208 (v.2) ChE 552 Mineral Processing or any previous version
Prerequisite(s):	302240 (v.3) ChE 227 Process Principles or any previous version AND 302246 (v.2) ChE 221 Fluid Mechanics or any previous version
Syllabus:	Formation of minerals. Occurrence of economically important minerals. Identification of ores and minerals and their properties. Various ore dressing operations such as comminution, sizing and sorting, jigging, tabling, flotation, magnetic and electrostatic separations. Extraction of mineral species. Various separation processes for beneficiation of minerals, including adsorption, electrolysis, electrowinning, leaching, solvent extraction, precipitation and by reaction. Typical examples from the local mineral processing industry.
Unit Outcomes:	On successful completion of this unit students will be able to describe ore dressing operations to manage refractory and non-refractory ores and evaluate metal extraction unit operations based on chemical, thermodynamic and kinetic aspects. They will have knowledge to apply hydrometallurgical theory to experimental data to evaluate processes and evaluate basic solvent extraction, ion exchange and leaching circuits.
Text and references listed above are for your information only and current as of September 30, 2003. Please check with the unit coordinator for up-to-date information.
Unit References:	Australian Mineral Foundation, 1974, 'Hydrometallurgy for Design and Operating Engineers. Notes for course held in Adelaide 1974'. Pourbaix, M, 1966, 'Atlas of Electrochemical Equilibria in Aqueous Solutions', Pergamon. Atkins, P.W., 1994, 'Physical Chemistry' 5th Ed., Oxford University Press, Melbourne. Levenspiel, O., 1999, 'Chemical Reaction Engineering' 3rd Ed., John Wiley & Sons, Brisbane
Unit Texts:	No prescribed text book.
Unit Assessment Breakdown:	Assignment 40%. Examination 60%.
Year Location Period Internal Area External Central External 2004 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y