Thermo and physicochemical principles in pyrometallurgical, aqueous (hydrometallurgical) and electrochemical processes

Reaction kinetics, thermodynamics, minor element behavior, chemical and transport properties of slags, metals, steels, moulds fluxes, gases, aqueous solutions, etc., Fluid-Solid Reaction Engineering, Sulfur Dioxide Streams Treatment, Chemistry of power and energy generation, Solvent extraction, Mineral processing, Experimental techniques, Process modeling and simulation, Refractory materials, degradation, control and optimisation, Products quality and cleanness, Material processing: composite, hybrid, polymeric, ceramic and nanomaterials, Chemical synthesis of metallic and ceramic nanopowders.

New, improved and existing technologies in pyrometallurgical, aqueous (hydrometallurgical) and electrochemical processes

Metals and materials extraction and processing, Chemical and metallurgical process reactors, environmental and waste issues, soil remediation and biotechnologies, Solvent extraction process equipments, Mineral processing technologies, refractory technologies and their industrial application, minor components in product and waste streams, Power and energy generation, Products quality and cleanness, Value addition and advance materials, Existing and new ways to produce new composite, polymeric or hybrid materials with upper qualities.

Industrial practice in pyrometallurgical, aqueous (hydrometallurgical) and electrochemical processes

Plant operations and industrial practice; Feed morphology and composition; Process Control and Optimisation; Process modeling, simulation and automation; Process parameters in smelting furnaces, converters, electrical furnaces, refining vessels, iron sintering, blast furnace, BOF, combustion of gasification chambers, etc.; Products quality and cleanness; New designs; Industrial application of refractory technologies; Mineral processing.

Sulfide Smelting

All issues related to pyrometallurgical production of primary metals from sulfide concentrates: Fundamentals of sulfide flash and bath smelting; Chemical and transport properties of slags, mattes, metals, fluxes, gases, etc.; Fluid-Solid Reactions; Feed preparation processes, equipments; Roasting, smelting, converting and refining processes and equipments; Smelter gas handling and acid plants processes and equipments; Smelter dusts and fugitive emissions; Environmental issues and policies; Furnace designs and refractory; Furnace operating practices; Control and optimisation; New smelter and expansion/capital projects; Technologies on direct producing of metals; The impacts of the current boom on basic metals prices and the future of sulfide smelting operations; Alternative ways of producing metals from sulfide concentrates.

Legal, management and environmental issues in minerals, metals and materials extraction and processinghttp

Patents; Copyrights; Intellectual Properties, contracts, confidentiality and litigation; Technology transfer issues; Merging and/or buyout of industrial complexes and companies in various countries; Price fluctuation in raw materials, coke, scrap and metals; Effect of globalization on production volumes and rates.