MTE 413
Metallurgical Process Design
2
Course Description
At the end of this course, the students should be able to:
1. appreciate the fact that they are first engineers before being a metallurgical engineer;
2. be acquainted with engineering design principles, engineering materials processing and
selection;
3. explain energy utilization and conservation; and
4. undertake specific design projects.
Course Outline
Design of metallurgical processing systems: whether it is extractive, physical or production
system; method of estimating process costs and profitability; performance selection and
design of process equipment; integration of process units into a working plant: its
construction and operation; design of metallurgical equipment: furnace, ball mills, flotation
cells, mixers, sinters and metals forming mills; personnel management