Topic outline

  • General

    • Compulsory course in master level major Sustainable Metals Processing 

      Contents: 

      • general flowsheet of a hydrometallurgical process,
      • unit operations in hydrometallurgy,
      • factors affecting operation of unit processes,
      • calculation of mass and energy balances,
      • flow-sheet modeling with HSC Sim.

      Additional Course books:

    • A.R. Burkin, Chemical hydrometallurgy : theory and principles, World Scientific Publishing Company, 2001. Available at Aalto library e-books  in the ProQuest Ebook Central site.

    • K. Han, Fundamentals of aqueous metallurgy. SME, 2002, Available at Aalto library e-books in the ProQuest Ebook Central site.

      Course will consist of lectures, excercises and tutorials (listed below in table) as well as laboratory works (~1 afternoon ~4h), see Section Laboratory exercises, excercises will start during week 38).

    • Monday lectures in Health Technology House building (Otakaari 3, building 3 in the maps), Lecture hall F239a, 12.15-14.00. Except 25.9. in the main building Otakaari 1, class U135a U7 PWC.

    • Tuesday exercises in Chemistry building (Kemistintie 1, building 11 in the maps), computer classes B016 and B018, 10.15-12.00

    • Friday exercises in the main building also known as Undergraduate Centre (Otakaari 1, building 1 in the maps), computer class U351, 12.15-15.00.

    • Course schedule, Period I


      		Lectures Exercises and Tutorials

      week 38

      4.9 Monday

       Lecture 1: What is hydrometallurgy? Hydrometallurgy as tool for circular economy, Hydrometallurgical flow sheet (lecture task 1 p)

      No exercises or Tutorials on this week

      week 39

      11.9 Monday

      Lecture 2: Leaching, Driving force and kinetics (lecture task 1.8 p) 

      12.9 Tuesday

      Exercise & Homework 1:

      Graded assignment, leaching extraction calculations, mass balances (10 p) 



      15.9. Friday
      HSC exercise 1 - Leaching (6 p) 

      week 40

      		 18.9 Monday
       Lecture 3: Solution purification and recovery I: Precipitation, neutralization, crystallization (lecture task 1.8 p)

      19.9 Tuesday

      Exercise & Homework 2:

      Graded assignment, Solution purification (10 p) - computer class

      		  22.9. Friday
      HSC exercise 2 - Solution purification by chemical precipitation (6 p) - computer class

      week 41

      		 25.9 Monday

      Lecture 4: Solid-liquid separation (lecture task 1.8 p)

      26.9. Tuesday

      Exercise & Homework 3:

      Graded assignment, Solid-liquid separation(10 p)


      		29.9. Friday
      HSC exercise 3 - solid-liquid separation (6 p)

      Week 42

      2.10 Monday

        Lecture 5: Solution purification and recovery II: SX, IX, adsorption (lecture task 1.8 p)

      3.10 Tuesday

      Exercise & Homework 4:

      Graded assignment, Solvent extraction (10 p)

      		  6.10. Friday
      HSC exercise 4 - SX (6 p)
      Week 43

      9.10 Monday

       Lecture 6: Solution purification and recovery III: Cementation, Gaseous reduction, EW, ER (lecture task 1.8 p)

      10.10 Tuesday

      Exercise & Homework 5:

      Graded assignment, Electrolysis  (10 p)

      		  13.10. Friday
      HSC exercise 5 - EW (6 p)


      		16.10 Monday  - TBC - Excursion to metallurgical plant


      		 
       


      Laboratory work and report writing (50 p) - laboratory times will be booked separately for each group



      Course completion (max 140/150 points):

      *10 points - lecture questions, 30 points - HSC exercises (5*6 p), 50 points (5*10 p) exercises, 50 points - laboratory report, (+2 extra points if over 50% of participants give course feedback) + 10 points of the excursion.

    • Course completion date 3.11., course grades in Sisu 23.11. Link to course grades.