427 chem

Course Description:
 
List of Topics:
 

1. Introduction to Industrial Chemistry.
2. Unit operations and unit processes.
3. Water quality; water treatment; wastewater treatment; desalination of seawater and water pollution.
4. Metallurgy: Ore dressing; magnetic and floatation separation; Pyro-metallurgy; extraction of iron, lead, chromium. Hydrometallurgy: extraction of gold, silver and mercury. Electro-metallurgy: extraction of aluminum, and sodium. Ultra-purification of metals, Electro-refining, chemical refining and alloys.
5. Ceramics and composites: Processing of ceramic and application; superconducting ceramics; glass and quartz industry.
6. Cement.
7. Extraction of elements for semiconductors, ultrapure silicon, phosphorus arsenic .
8. Industries of sulfuric acid, nitric acid and hydrochloric acid.
9. Inorganic fertilizers, detergent and household cleaning industries.

 
 

-Field trips for the local industrial companies.