Material is arranged in chapters on physical extraction operations, hyrdrometallurgical operations, gas-solid and solid-solid reactors and particle conversion operations, blast furnaces, smelting reduction operations, steelmaking operations, sulfide and
matte smelting and converting operations, electric melting and smelting furnaces, molten salt electrolysis operations, and extractive processing routes.
The Peirce-Smith converter, used in the field of metallurgy during the second stage of nickel and copper
matte smelting to convert sulfides to metal, was patented in 1909 and 100 years later remains a workhorse of the industry.
Physical Chemistry of Direct Nickel
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Although one of the most recently developed processes, it has the distinction of being the simplest of the new
matte smelting processes.