Wiley-VCH, 2003. 811 pp.
This volume provides in one place a self-contained and adequately detailed coverage of the chemical metallurgy of the major metals, common as well as less common. It has been brought into being as an exceedingly well-structured treatise. The presentation has been organised in seven chapters. The first chapter gives a general appraisal of the whole field of chemical metallurgy. The coverage also includes a brief account of resources. The next two chapters are devoted to thermodynamics and kinetics and to processing of minerals. The remaining three chapters deal, respectively, with pyrometallurgy, hydrometallurgy, and electrometallurgy. The last chapter attends to energy and environmental considerations. Physicochemical principles provided for the various unit operations and description of the
key details of the processes deserve special mention as being among the attractive features of this volume.
This volume provides in one place a self-contained and adequately detailed coverage of the chemical metallurgy of the major metals, common as well as less common. It has been brought into being as an exceedingly well-structured treatise. The presentation has been organised in seven chapters. The first chapter gives a general appraisal of the whole field of chemical metallurgy. The coverage also includes a brief account of resources. The next two chapters are devoted to thermodynamics and kinetics and to processing of minerals. The remaining three chapters deal, respectively, with pyrometallurgy, hydrometallurgy, and electrometallurgy. The last chapter attends to energy and environmental considerations. Physicochemical principles provided for the various unit operations and description of the
key details of the processes deserve special mention as being among the attractive features of this volume.