Courses Handbook 2010

302208 (v.2) ChE 552 Mineral Processing


Area: Department of Chemical Engineering
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 3.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 2 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s): 302280 (v.2) ChE 374 Mineral Processing 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: 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, and solvent extraction by precipitation and by reaction. Typical examples from the local mineral processing industry.
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Field of Education: 030301 Chemical Engineering
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2010 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        

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