Treatise on Process Metallurgy, Volume 1: Process Fundamentals

Process metallurgy provides academics with the fundamentals of the manufacturing of metallic materials, from raw materials into finished parts or products.Coverage is divided into three volumes, entitled Fundamental Process Metallurgy, encompassing process fundamentals, extractive and refining processes, metallurgical process phenomena; Types of Processing, encompassing ferrous processing; non-ferrous processing; refractory, reactive and aquaeous processing of metals; and Systems and Applications, encompassing process modelling and computational tools; energy optimization; environmental aspects; and industrial design.The work distils 400+ years combined academic experience from the principal editor and multidisciplinary 14-member editorial advisory board, providing the 2,608-page work with a seal of quality.