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
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Prerequisite(s): | 302240 (v.3) ChE 227 Process Principles or any previous version
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302246 (v.2) ChE 221 Fluid Mechanics or any previous version
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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. |
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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. |
Texts and references listed below are for your information only and current as of September 30, 2003. Some units taught offshore are modified at selected locations. Please check with the unit coordinator for up-to-date information and approved offshore variations to unit information before finalising study and textbook purchases. |
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. |
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Unit Assessment Breakdown: | Assignment 40%. Examination 60%. |
Field of Education: | 30301 Chemical Engineering | HECS Band (if applicable): | 2 |
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Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information: | Informational | Result Type: | Grade/Mark |
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Availability
| Year | Location | Period | Internal | Area External | Central External | | 2004 | Bentley Campus | Semester 1 | Y | | |
Area
External | refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research. |
Central
External | refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area |
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