Equipment and technologies of rare metal industry

Description: The discipline covers the main aspects of the production, processing and use of rare earth and rare metals. This includes the study of ore mining, beneficiation, metallurgical processing, as well as technology for obtaining pure metals and their compounds. An important component of the course is an overview of modern equipment and methods used in the rare metals industry, including methods of analysis and product quality control.

Amount of credits: 5

Пререквизиты:

• Physics of Condensed State
• Basic Physics of X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis

Course Workload:

Component: University component

Cycle: Profiling disciplines

Goal

• To acquaint students with the most common equipment of the rare metal industry. To teach students to understand the equipment of the rare metal industry, to use the equipment with a decrease in its wear and tear and the cost of the graduation product.

Objective

• Consolidation of knowledge in general engineering and special disciplines of technology for obtaining and applying materials.

Learning outcome: knowledge and understanding

• Basic concepts and technological sequence of obtaining rare metal compounds based on known methods

Learning outcome: applying knowledge and understanding

• Skills in working with educational, reference, technical and scientific literature

Learning outcome: formation of judgments

• Analysis of the technological process, identification of its shortcomings and development of measures to improve it

Learning outcome: communicative abilities

• Communication skills necessary for the effective discussion and resolution of production tasks related to equipment and technologies in the rare metals industry.

Topics of lectures

• Introduction
• The mineral resource base and the sphere of distribution of rare metals
• Industry analysis for individual metals
• Rare earth metals
• Refractory metals
• Production processes and technologies for the production of rare metals
• The flotation of the spodumene
• Extraction and ion exchange chromatography methods
• Methods of processing zinc cakes in order to extract the valuable components contained in them
• Methods of processing zinc cakes in order to extract the valuable components contained in them
• Properties of titanium and its application
• Methods for separating rare earth elements
• Obtaining a calcium-copper alloy by electrolytic method
• Energy resources in the production of rare rare earth metals
• Obtaining a calcium-copper alloy by electrolytic method

Further reading

• Uranium technology: textbook / Maslov A.A., Kalyatskaya G.V., Amelina G.N., Vodyankin A.Yu., Egorov N.B. – Tomsk: Tomsk Polytechnic Publishing House. University, 2007. – 97 p.
• tatus and trends in spent fuel reprocessing Proceedings of an Advisory Group meetingheld in Vienna, 7-10 September 1998. 3. Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Technology/ British Nuclear Fuels pic. Risley, Warrington, 1992.
• Voldman G.M., Zelikman A.N.. Theory of hydrometallurgical processes - M.: Intermet Engineering, 2003. - 464 p. 5. I.D. Timber Processes and apparatus for uranium production. Lecture notes. Tomsk, ed. TPU 2001, 164с
• V.G. Einstein, M.K. Zakharov, G.A. Nosov, V.G. Zakharenko, T.V. Zinovkina, A.L. Taran, A.E. Kostanyan. General course of processes and apparatus of chemical technology, M., University book; Logos, Fizmatkniga 2006, book. 1.2. 7. S.I. Polkin, Z.V. Adamov. Enrichment of non-ferrous and rare metal ores. M., 1975.
• Akhmetov, A. M. "Processing of ores and concentration of rare metals". Almaty: KazNTU, 2012.
• Guryev, A. N. "Modern methods of processing rare earth elements". Yekaterinburg: UGTU, 2013.
• Belyaev, S. A. "Method of wastewater treatment in metallurgy". Novosibirsk: SO RAN, 2015.