5632 (v.6) WASM Pyrometallurgy 562

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Area:	WASM Minerals Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy Teaching Area
Contact Hours:	4.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Ferrous metallurgy, steelmaking - review of thermodynamics, steelmaking processes, impurities in steel, deoxidation, vacuum degassing. Non-ferrous metallurgy - melt chemistry, Western Australian processes - nickel matte smelting, ferro-silicon production, synthetic rutile kiln practice, gold roasting.