TY  - BOOK
AU  - Evans,James W
AU  - De Jonghe,L.C
TI  - The production and processing of inorganic materials
SN  - 0873395417
AV  - TN665 .E93 2002
PY  - 2002///]
CY  - Warrendale, Pa.
PB  - TMS (The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society)
KW  - Metallurgy
N1  - Computer disk in pocket; Includes bibliographical references and index; Table Of Contents; Preface; Significance, History, and Sources of Materials; What materials are and their importance; Historical summary; Materials at present; The earth as the source of materials; Mining; Mineral processing; Concluding remarks; Chemical Thermodynamics; Introduction; Reversibility (or otherwise) of changes; Entropy; Free energy; Equilibrium; Significance of Ellingham diagrams; Predominance (Pourbaix) diagrams; Physical equilibria; Concluding remarks; Reaction Kinetics; Introduction and some definitions; Rate equations; Temperature effects; Mass transport and heterogeneous reactions; The case of the disappearing solid; The case of the shrinking core; Concluding remarks; Powders and Particles; Introduction; Characterization of particles; Characterization of agglomerates and compacts; Concluding remarks; Surfaces and Colloids; Significance of colloids in materials processing; Surface structure; Colloid interactions; Concluding remarks; Fundamentals of Heat Treatment and Sintering; Introduction; Transport of matter; Phase equilibria; Kinetics of phase changes; Sintering: an introduction; Concluding remarks; Process Engineering; Introduction; Material and enthalpy balances; Recycles; Staged operations; Heat balances; Supply of heat to unit operations; Process control; Concluding remarks; High-Temperature Processing for the Production of Metals and Glass; Introduction; Thermodynamic considerations; Kinetic considerations and selectivity; Roasting; Reduction of oxides; Smelting and converting of sulfides; Steelmaking: preliminary refining technologies; Glassmaking; Concluding remarks; Hydrometallurgy and Electrometallurgy; Introduction; Leaching; Solution purification; Electrometallurgy; Concluding remarks; Refining, Solidification, and Finishing of Metals; Refining and alloying of metals; Solidification of metals; Finishing operations; Concluding remarks; Production of Powders; Introduction; Mechanical methods for powder production; Production of powders from solutions; Production of powders by solid-solid and gas-solid reactions; Production of metal powder; Production of other important ceramic powders; Concluding remarks; Powder Compaction; Introduction; Packing of particles; Powder compaction; Die compaction; Isostatic compaction; Casting methods; Extrusion methods; Sintering of Powder Compacts; Introduction; The sintering process; Sintering mechanisms; Driving forces for sintering; Densification by grain boundary diffusion; Densification by volume diffusion; Creep of porous solids and the shape factor Φ; Interrelation of various transport mechanisms: sintering maps; Densification of heterogeneous powder compacts: differential densification; Liquid-phase sintering; Concluding remarks; Microstructure Development During Sintering; Introduction; Grain growth; Pore evaluation during densification; Pore movement and pore breakaway; Concluding remarks; Densification Technology; Introduction; Free sintering or pressureless sintering; Pressure assisted sintering; Concluding remarks; Advanced Materials and Processes; Introduction; Rapid solidification; Production of silicon; Zone refining; Chemical vapor deposition; Preparation of composite materials from liquid metals; Surface modification processes; Appendix; Index
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