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Treatise on Process Metallurgy

Volume 2A: Process Phenomena

  • 2nd Edition - June 9, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Seshadri Seetharaman, Alexander McLean, Roderick Guthrie, Sridhar Seetharaman, H. Y. Sohn
  • Language: English

Treatise on Process Metallurgy: Volume Two, Process Phenomena provides academics with the fundamentals of the manufacturing of metallic materials, from raw materials into finished… Read more

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Description

Treatise on Process Metallurgy: Volume Two, Process Phenomena provides academics with the fundamentals of the manufacturing of metallic materials, from raw materials into finished parts or products. In these fully updated volumes, coverage is expanded into four volumes, including Process Fundamentals, encompassing process fundamentals, structure and properties of matter; thermodynamic aspects of process metallurgy, and rate phenomena in process metallurgy; Processing Phenomena, encompassing interfacial phenomena in high temperature metallurgy, metallurgical process phenomena, and metallurgical process technology; Metallurgical Processes, encompassing mineral processing, aqueous processing, electrochemical material and energy processes, and iron and steel technology, non-ferrous process principles and production technologies, and more.

The work distills the combined academic experience from the principal editor and the multidisciplinary four-member editorial board.

Key features

  • Provides the entire breadth of process metallurgy in a single work
  • Includes in-depth knowledge in all key areas of process metallurgy
  • Approaches the topic from an interdisciplinary perspective, providing broad range coverage on topics

Readership

For teaching and research faculty, upper level undergraduate students, graduate students, and post-doctoral research associates in metallurgy and materials science and technology and related areas of study (physics, chemistry and biomedical science) as well as researchers and staff members of government and industrial research laboratories, Particularly useful for more experienced research workers who require an overview of fields comparatively new to them, or with which they wish to renew contact after a gap of some years

Table of contents

Chapter 1: Interfacial Phenomena in High Temperature Metallurgy

1.1 Interfacial Phenomena in High Temperature Metallurgy

1.2 Surfaces and Interfaces

1.3 Surface Tension and Contact Angle

1.4 Experiments

1.5 Surface Tension Models

1.6 Interfacial Free Energy and Wettability

1.7 Some Aspects of Electrochemistry of Interfaces

1.8 Interfacial Convection and Its Effect on Material Processing

1.9 Stability of Interface Between Liquid Steel and Molten Slag

1.10 Applications of Interfacial Phenomena in Process Metallurgy

Chapter 2: Metallurgical Process Phenomena

2.1 The Importance of Metallurgical Process Phenomena

2.2 Kinetics of Gas-Liquid and Liquid-Liquid Reactions

2.3 Bubbles in Process Metallurgy

2.4 Foams and Foaming

2.5 Fluid-Solid Reaction Analysis

2.6 Solid-solid reactions and powder processing

2.7 Solid-liquid reactions and refractory corrosion

2.8 Gas-liquid reactions, case studies

2.9 Applications

2.10. Some Perspectives on the Process of Innovation

2.11 Some Metallurgical Considerations Pertaining to the Development of Steel Quality

2.12 Application of Slag Engineering Fundamentals to Continuous Steelmaking

2.13 Kinetics of Assimilation of Additions in Liquid Metals

Chapter 3: Metallurgical Process Technology

3.1 Metallurgical Process Technology

3.2.Process Kinetics, Fluid flow and Heat and Mass Transfer in Process Metallurgy (Macro-modelling Principles

3.3 Turbulence Modelling and Implementation

3.4 Computational Fluid Mechanics

3.5 Physical Modelling-Experimental design

3.6. Reactor Design

3. 7.Modular approach to process modelling

3.8 Comprehensive Radiation modelling in furnaces

3.9 Computational and Physical Modeling

3.10. Applications of Modelling in processes Case studies

3.11 Single Phase, Two Phase, and Multiphase Flows and Methods to Model these Flows

3.12 Computational and Physical Modeling of solidification in CCC and TSC

3.13 Solidification

3.14 Case study: The Design of a New Casting Process: From Fundamentals to Practice

3.15 Conclusion
Nomenclature

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: July 22, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Seshadri Seetharaman

Seshadri Seetharaman is Professor Emeritus at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Professor Seetharaman has more than 320 publications in peer-reviewed journals, 130 conference presentations and 10 patents. He is the editor for the books, "Fundamentals of Metallurgy" and "Treatise on Process Metallurgy". He received the President’s award for teaching merits in 1994. He was nominated as the best teacher in Materials Science eight times and was chosen as the best teacher of the Royal Inst. of Technol. In 2004. He has been visiting professor at Kyushu Inst. Technol., Kyoto university, Japan and TU-Bergakademie, Freiberg, Germany. He was awarded the Brimacomb prize for the year 2010 Hon. Doctor at Aalto University, Finland in 2011 and Hon. Professor at the Ukrainian Metallurgical Academy, 2011. Prof. Seetharaman is an Hon. Member of the Iron and Steel Institute of Japan, 2011, He has been honoured as the Distinguished Alumni of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in the year 2013. He is currently a visiting professor at TATA Steel, Jamshedpur, India
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

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Alexander McLean

Alexander McLean works in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

RG

Roderick Guthrie

Roderick Guthrie works in the Department of Mining and Materials Engineering at McGill Metals Processing Centre, Quebec, Canada.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Mining and Materials Engineering, McGill Metals Processing Centre, Quebec, Canada

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Sridhar Seetharaman

Sridhar Seetharaman is the Fulton Professor of Industrial Decarbonization at Arizona State University. He received his undergraduate degree from the Royal Institute of Technology and his PHD from MIT. He is a Distinguished Member and Fellow of the Association for Iron and Steel Technology.

Affiliations and expertise
Fulton Professor of Industrial Decarbonization at Arizona State University, USA

HS

H. Y. Sohn

Hong Yong Sohn holds the rank of Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah, having joined the Department of Metallurgical Engineering in 1974. He received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Seoul National University in Korea and his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering in 1970 from the University of California at Berkeley. He worked as a Research Engineer at Du Pont’s Engineering Technology Laboratory. Dr. Sohn has authored or co-authored 7 monographs, 19 edited books, 28 book chapters, 11 patents, some 600 papers, and 39 technical reports. He has served as a Director of TMS-AIME (The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society), was a U.S. DOE Fossil Energy Lecturer, 1978–81, and is an Advisor to LS-MnM (formerly LS-Nikko Copper Inc.) of Korea and also Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM). He is an Honorary Professor of Metallurgy at the Kunming University of Science and Technology at the Anhui University of Technology, China. Professor Sohn’s work has been recognized through various awards, which include the 2014 Educator Award from TMS; the Distinguished Scholarly and Creative Research Award, 2012 from the University of Utah; Billiton Gold Medal, 2012 from The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining in the U.K.; the TMS 2009 Fellow Award “in recognition of outstanding contribution to the practice of metallurgical/materials science and technology” from The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS); the TMS Champion H. Mathewson Gold Medal Award (1993 “for the most notable contribution to Metallurgical Science in the 3–year period”); the TMS Extraction and Processing Science Award (1990, 1994, 1999 and 2007, respectively, for analysis of flash furnace shaft; modeling of in situ solution mining operations; synthesis of ultrafine particles of intermetallic compounds; and analysis of the influence of chemical equilibrium on fluid-solid reaction rates and the falsification of activation energy); the Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer (1983); and the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Award (1977). In 2006, TMS honored Dr. Sohn by holding the “Sohn International Symposium on Advanced Processing of Metals and Materials”. Professor Sohn’s research interests have covered a wide range of subjects, such as Development of a Novel Flash Ironmaking; Plasma-Assisted Chemical Synthesis of Inorganic and Ceramic Nanomaterials; Metallurgical Process Engineering including Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling; Nonferrous metal; Fluid–Solid Reaction Engineering; Synthesis and Processing of Ceramic and Intermetallic Compounds; Hydrogen Storage Materials; Solvent Extraction. A major common theme through these research efforts has been the development and application of reaction kinetics theories, especially the engineering analysis of the reactions between solids and fluids. He coauthored a seminal monograph in the field, “Gas-Solid Reactions”, which had been a standard reference on the subject for more than 40 years: Professor Sohn recently updated and expanded the book as “Fluid-Solid Reactions” incorporating the massive amount of work he has continued on the topic since the publication of “Gas-Solid Reactions” and expanding the coverage to include reactions between a solid and a liquid. A major accomplishment by Professor Sohn in this field is the formulation of a rate law called “Sohn’s Law of Additive Reaction Times” that governs the reactions between solids and fluids that are affected by mass transfer processes. Among the numerous plenary and keynote lectures Professor Sohn has given, he delivered a talk on “Novel Ironmaking Technology with Low Energy Requirement and CO2 Emission” to the U.S. Congress on April 21, 2008. He has also served as a technical consultant to many industrial companies, government units, and research institutes, in addition to serving on a number of editorial/advisory boards of international journals.
Affiliations and expertise
Distinguished Professor, Metallurgical Engineering; Adjunct Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of Utah, USA

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