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  • Topic 1

    Target public: 2nd year Process engineering/ Semester: 3

    Teaching Unit: UEF 2.1.2

    Course title: Mineral Chemistry

    Credit: 4

    Coefficient: 2

    Duration: 15 weeks

    Weekly timetable: - 1h 30 min  course +1h 30min tutorial group

    Place of teaching: classroom 23 for the course  and classroom 1 for tutorial group


    Evaluation methods:  - Final exam      60%

                                          - Continue evaluation     40% 

    Teacher: Dr. Merzouki Soraya


    Contact: s.merzouki@centre-univ-mila.dz


    Availability: every day at head of department's office 

  • Educational Objectives:


    Provide the basic concepts of inorganic chemistry
     Learning of some methods such as crystallography and synthesis.



  • Recommended Prerequisite Knowledge:


    Basic concepts of general chemistry


  • CHAPTER 1:Review of Some Important Definitions

    Mole

    Molar mass

     Molar volume

     Mole fraction

    Mass fraction

    Volume fraction

    Density

    specific gravity

    Relationship between mass fraction and mole fraction

    Material balance: Concept of reactant and excess reactant, Concept of excess percentage, Concept of conversion percentage.

  • CHAPTER 2: CRISTALLOCHEMISTRY

    Definitions 

    Crystal

     Polyhedron

    Crystalline lattice

     Cell: motif, crystallographic sites,  coordination number

      Crystalline system

    Crystallographic computations : 

    direction& plan (Miller Indices), distance, angle, density (multiplicity , compactness) 

    Some examples of crystalline structures: 

    metallic, ionic, covalent.

    Molecular structure: ice structure




  • Periodicity and In-Depth Study of the Properties of Elements

    Historic review about Mendeleev Table

    Periodic Classification

    Groups A in the periodic table:

    Alkaline  Metals (IA)
    Alkaline Earth Metals (IIA)
    Boron family (IIIA)

    Carbone family (IVA)

    . Nitrogen family (VA)
    -Chalcogen family: (VIA)
    . Halogens family (VIIA)

  • CHAPTER 4:THE MAJOR METTALURGIES

    Definitions

    Metallurgy

    Ores 

    subject of metallurgy

    Mineral dressing

    Chemical metallurgy

    Physical metallurgy

    Mechanical metallurgy

    Powder metallurgy

    the major metallurgy

    Iron (Fe)

    Titanium (Ti)

    Copper (Cu)

    Magnesium (Mg)


  • CHPTER 5: THE MAJOR MINERAL SYNTHESIS

    Sulfuric acid H2SO4
    phosphoric acid H3PO4
    ammonia NH3
    nitric acid HNO3

  • REFERENCES

    1. Lalaymia youcef, cours chimie minérale pharmaceutique, departement de pharmacie, université de Batna , 2020.
    2. Donald E. Sands, Introduction to cristallography,DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC , NEW YORK, USA, 1993.
    3. Bouchiba nabila, cours de chimie minérale et application , université Ahmed Ben Bella, Oran.
    4. Andrée Harari et Noël Baffier, DES SYMÉTRIES AUX PROPRIÉTÉS , Fondation de la maison de chimie, 2015.
    5. R.-B. Li et al, MPROVEMENT OF MODELING ON THE PIDGEON PROCESS FOR MAGNESIUM PRODUCTION BY INTRODUCING THE VARIABLE THERMOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES. J. Min. Metall. Sect. B-Metall. 58 (3) (2022) 451 - 459.
    6. Marck E. Schlesigner et al, Extractive Mettalurgy of cupper, 5th edition, Elseiver, 2011
    7. European Fertilizer Manufacturers’ Association, PRODUCTION OF AMMONIA, Ave. E van Nieuwenhuyse 4, B-1160 Brussels, Belgium. 2000.
    8. Donald Parnell, P.E., Basic Principles of Metallurgy and Metalworking. Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07677

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