302280 (v.2) ChE 374 Mineral Processing

Area:

Department of Chemical Engineering

Credits:

12.5

Contact Hours:

2.5

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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.

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Field of Education:

030301 Chemical Engineering

Funding Cluster:

08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Informational
*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
2006	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External