Abstract The past 10–20 years have seen numerous academic papers describing the benefits of ionic liquids (ILs) and deep-eutectic solvents (DESs) for leaching, solvent extraction electrowinning. scientific community—including authors this opinion article—have frequently proclaimed these neoteric as game-changers in extractive metallurgy. Despite this, there been no commercial breakthroughs. In ...

The residual porosity is an unavoidable phenomenon of the components produced by powder metallurgy process which in turn largely affects the strength property of the same. Now a day it is possible to control porosity of powder metallurgy components and retain them to desired amount when required. The porosity of a powder metallurgy component is greatly depends on the sintering temperature. In t...

Microwave radiation is a relatively new energy source that being considered for several applications in mineral processing and extractive metallurgy. In the present research, various gibbsite-type bauxite ores were subjected to microwave radiation. The main objective was assess effect of dewatering on compressive strength indices compare results obtained those conventional heating. Firstly, fun...

The seasonal variation of water soluble extractive alcohol soluble extractive and ether soluble extractive have been investigated in leaves, wood and bark of Sesbania grandiflora, Sesbania bispinosa and Sesbania cannabina. Comparative account of water soluble extractive of leaves, wood and bark of Sesbania grandiflora was showed high level (range 4.2 to 5.8 %) than Sesbania bispinosa (range 3.3...

There is mixed evidence regarding the relationship between the extractive intensity of economic activity and the level of human development. Some studies find that mineraland energy-intensive economies have higher levels of development than economies without a substantial extractive sector, whereas others find that they have lower development levels. Those that find the negative relationship co...

Corrosion simply refers to destructive and unintentional attack on metals. It is extractive metallurgy in reverse. That is, it serves to return metals back to their ores.1 Corrosion has been recognized as a phenomenon that has existed for as long as mankind. It has devastated several plants in the industrial age, bringing into focus the need to study and understand it. Since then, mankind has c...

Although steel production by molten oxide electrolysis offers potential economic and environmental advantages over classic extractive metallurgy, its feasibility is far from being convincingly demonstrated, mainly due to inherent experimental difficulties exerted by harsh conditions and lack of knowledge regarding relevant mechanisms and physico-chemical processes in the melts. The present work...

The phenomenon of evaporation of volatile metal bath components can be observed in numerous process of both extractive metallurgy and refi ning. In some of them, this phenomenon can be considered positive, in others, however, to the contrary. In order to intensify the evaporation process or to restrain it, one must necessarily know the factors determining its rate. The most important of those f...