The Production and Processing of Inorganic Materials (The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series)

Guiding readers from the significance, history, and sources of materials to advanced materials and processes, this textbook looks at the production and primary processing of inorganic materials, such as ceramics, metals, silicon, and some composite materials. The text encourages instructors to teach the production of all types of inorganic materials as one. While recognizing the differences between producing various types of materials, the authors focus on the commonality of thermodynamics, kinetics, transport phenomena, phase equilibria and transformation, process engineering, and surface chemistry to all inorganic materials. The text focuses on fundamentals and how fundamentals can be applied to understand how the major inorganic materials are produced and the initial stages of their processing. Understanding of these fundamentals will equip students for engineering future processes for producing materials or for studying the processing of the many less common materials not examined in this text. The text is intended for use in an undergraduate course at the junior or senior level, but will also serve as a useful introductory and reference work for graduate students and practicing scientists and engineers. Front Matter....Pages N1-xiv Significance, History, and Sources of Materials....Pages 1-28 Chemical Thermodynamics....Pages 29-73 Reaction Kinetics....Pages 74-109 Powders and Particles....Pages 110-133 Surfaces and Colloids....Pages 134-169 Fundamentals of Heat Treatment and Sintering....Pages 170-210 Process Engineering....Pages 211-240 High-Temperature Processes for the Production of Metals and Glass....Pages 241-280 Hydrometallurgy and Electrometallurgy....Pages 281-320 Refining, Solidification, and Finishing of Metals....Pages 321-354 Production of Powders....Pages 355-382 Powder Compaction....Pages 383-401 Sintering of Powder Compacts....Pages 402-439 Microstructure Development During Sintering....Pages 440-460 Densification Technology....Pages 461-476 Advanced Materials and Processes....Pages 477-511 Back Matter....Pages 512-534