Handbook

Reaction rate and expressions for different reaction systems; kinetics and thermodynamics of metallurgical reactions; heat balance and mass balance of chemical reactors; batch and semibatch reactors; plug flow reactors (gas reactants in most metallurgical processes); mixed tank reactors (smelting, steel refining); catalytic reactions Heterogeneous reactions; fixed bed reactors (stack leaching processes); fluidised bed reactors (fluid bed roasting, alternative ironmaking technologies); moving bed reactors (blast furnace, Corex process).
Types of metallurgical reactors, batch and continuous, plug flow and well-mixed reactors. Tracer additions. Chemical performance of a metallurgical reactor. Principles of metallurgical reactor design. Major technologies in ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy and their development.