Innovative Process Development in Metallurgical Industry: Concept to Commission

1. The Need for Process Innovation.- Part I-Separation Processes and Process Selection.- 2. Physical Processing - Innovations in Mineral Processing Process Development.- 3. Thermal Processing - Pyrometallurgy - Non-Ferrous.- 4. Thermal Processing - Pyrometallurgy -Ferrous.- 5. Chemical Processing - Hydrometallurgy.- 6. Biological Processing.- 7. Process Compression.- 8. Process Selection.- 9. Metallurgical Processing Innovations: Intellectual Property Perspectives and Management.- Part II - Process Development.- Chapter 10 Conceptual idea, Test work, Design, Commissioning and Troubleshooting.- Part III - Process Optimization.- Chapter 11- An Integrated Mining & Metallurgical Enterprise Enabling Continuous Process Optimization.- Part IV - Equipment.- Chapter 12- Equipment Development, Design and Optimization.- Part V Sustainable Development and Environmental Management.- Chapter 13- Sustainability Considerations in Innovative Process Development.- Part VI Steps to Commercialization.- Chapter 14-Process Development, Execution, Owner's responsibility and Examples of Innovative Developments.- Part VII - Financing.- Chapter 15 - Investing, financing and harvesting innovation and technology.- Part VIII Case Study Examples.- 16. Innovative case study processes in extractive metallurgy.- 17. Development of a New Technology for Converting Iron-bearing materials to Nodular Reduced Iron.- 18. Innovative process for the production of Titanium dioxide.- 19. Innovative Processes In Electrometallurgy.- 20. Innovations In Gold and Silver Processing.- 21. Innovative Processes for By-Product Recovery and its applications.- 22. Conclusion. Process Optimization.- Equipment Selection, Design, Development and Optimization.- By-Product Production.- Environmental Management.- Steps to Commercialization.- Case Study examples.