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Title of the course

MM755: Kinetics of High Temperature Process 

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Credit structure

L          T          P          C

2           1          0           6

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Pre-requisite, if any

None

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Course content

Kinetics fundamental (2 weeks)
    Reaction kinetics
    Rate of interfacial reactions between fluids
    Diffusion fundamentals
    Mass transfer-controlled reactions
Interfacial phenomena and its role in process metallurgy (1 week)
    Surface tension models
    Interfacial convection
    Applications in process metallurgy
Heterogeneous reactions with examples (2 weeks):
    Solid-liquid, solid-gas, liquid-liquid, liquid-gas
    Dissolution of additives in the melt, Reduction reactions, Slag-metal reactions, and Degassing or gas pick-up in liquid metals
Multistep reactions (2 weeks)
    Mass transfer and interfacial reaction-controlled reactions
    Identifying rate controlling steps
    Mixed control reactions
Stirring of molten metals/slags and its kinetic effects (2 weeks)
    Formation and role of bubbles
    Gas stirred ladles
    Foaming
    Electromagnetic stirring
Process modeling using thermodynamic software (2 weeks)
    Using FactSage
    Using Thermocalc
End term project: progress and presentations (2 weeks)

Texts/References

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Instructor(s) name

Prof. Deepoo Kumar