Flowsheeting Principles: process units, streams, degrees of freedom analysis, simultaneous equation solution for both linear and non-linear equation sets using Excel; <br/>Copper Flash Furnace: smelting and converting principles, heat and mass balance modelling using Excel, sensitivity analysis of key process variables. <br/>Iron Blast Furnace: smelting principles, Rist equation analysis, two stage heat and mass balance modelling using Excel, sensitivity analysis of key process variables.<br/>Thermodynamic Process Modelling: Predominance area diagrams, phase rule analysis, simultaneous equilibria, non-ideal solution models, free energy minimisation simulation using Stepsol public domain... -- Course Website
Prerequisites: 303126 (v.2)<br/> Pyrometallurgy 352<br/> <br/> or any previous version<br/> <br/> <br/><br/> <br/> OR<br/><br/> <br/> Admission into<br/> <br/> 304168 (v.3)<br/> Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical Engineering), Bachelor of Science (Extractive Metallurgy)<
