Unit Operations and Pretreatment Processes

Course content

Drying; principles of drying equipment. Calcination; principles of calcination, calcination furnaces. Roasting; thermochemistry, types of roasting, roasting furnaces and product control. Agglomeration processes; sintering, pelletizing, nodulizing, and briquetting. Theory of sintering and pelletizing. Description of industrial agglomeration processes. Solid state reduction processes; direct and indirect reduction.