The production of inorganic materials / James W. Evans and Lutgard C. De Jonghe

Includes bibliographical references and index.

SIGNIFICANCE, HISTORY, AND SOURCES OF MATERIALS: What materials are and their importance -- Historical summary -- Materials at present -- The earth as the source of materials -- Mining -- Mineral processing -- CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMICS: Reversibility (or otherwise) of changes -- Entropy -- Free energy -- Equilibrium -- Significance of Ellingham diagrams -- Predominance (Pourbaix) diagrams -- Physical equilibria -- REACTION KINETICS: Rate equations -- Temperature effects -- Mass transport and heterogeneous reactions -- Case of the disappearing solid -- Case of the shrinking core -- POWDERS AND PARTICLES: Characterization of particles -- Characterization of agglomerates and compacts -- SURFACES AND COLLOIDS: Significance of colloids in materials processing -- Surface structure -- Colloid interactions -- FUNDAMENTALS OF HEAT TREATMENT AND SINTERING: Transport of matter -- Phase equilibria -- Kinetics of phase changes -- Sintering: an introduction -- PROCESS ENGINEERING: Material and enthalpy balances -- Recycles -- Staged operations -- Heat balances -- Supply of heat to unit operations -- Process control -- HIGH-TEMPERATURE PROCESSES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF METALS AND GLASS: Thermodynamic considerations -- Kinetic considerations and selectivity -- Roasting -- Reduction of oxides -- Smelting and converting of sulfides -- Steelmaking: preliminary refining technologies -- Glassmaking -- HYDROMETALLURGY AND ELECTROMETALLURGY: Leaching -- Solution purification -- Electro metallurgy -- REFINING, SOLIDIFICATION, AND FINISHING OF METALS: Refining and alloying of metals -- Solidification of metals -- Finishing operations -- PRODUCTION OF POWDERS: Mechanical methods for powder production -- Production of powders from solutions -- Production of powders by solid-solid and gas-solid reactions -- Production of metal powder -- Production of other important ceramic powders -- POWDER COMPACTION: Packing of particles -- Powder compaction -- Die compaction -- Isostatic compaction -- Casting methods -- Extrusion methods -- SINTERING OF POWDER COMPACTS: The sintering process -- Sintering mechanisms -- Driving forces for sintering -- Densification by grain boundary diffusion -- Densification by volume diffusion -- Creep of porous solids and the shape factor -- Interrelation of various transport mechanisms: sintering maps -- Densification of heterogeneous powder compacts: differential densification -- Liquid-phase sintering -- MICROSTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT DURING SINTERING: Grain growth -- Pore evolution during densification -- Pore movement and pore breakaway -- DENSIFICATION TECHNOLOGY: Free sintering or pressureless sintering -- Pressure assisted sintering -- ADVANCED MATERIALS AND PROCESSES: Rapid solidification -- Production of silicon -- Zone refining -- Chemical vapor deposition -- Preparation of composite materials from liquid metals -- Surface modification processes.