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Chiranjib Kumar Gupta
Chemical Metallurgy
Chemical Metallurgy: Principles and Practice.
Chiranjib Kumar Gupta
Copyright © 2003 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
ISBN: 3-527-30376-6
Chiranjib Kumar Gupta
Chemical Metallurgy
Principles and Practice
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Dr. Chiranjib Kumar Gupta
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
Materials Group
Mumbai 400085
India
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Foreword
Dr. C. K. Gupta is a very distinguished colleague of mine. I have been familiar with his pro-
fessional career over a long period. A very large number of research papers, reviews, and
several books authored by him bear ample testimony to the diverse and wide-ranging con-
tributions he has made to date to the field of chemical metallurgy. I was indeed very happy
to accept the invitation from him to write a foreword for the present volume entitled, “Chemi-
cal Metallurgy – Principles and Practice”, being published by Wiley-VCH Verlag, Germany.
This volume provides in one place a self-contained and adequately detailed coverage of
the chemical metallurgy of the major metals, common as well as less common. It has been
brought into being as an exceedingly well-structured treatise. The presentation has been
organised in seven chapters. The first chapter gives a general appraisal of the whole field of
chemical metallurgy. The coverage also includes a brief account of resources. The next two
chapters are devoted to thermodynamics and kinetics and to processing of minerals. The
remaining three chapters deal, respectively, with pyrometallurgy, hydrometallurgy, and
electrometallurgy. The last chapter attends to energy and environmental considerations.
Physicochemical principles provided for the various unit operations and description of the
key details of the processes deserve special mention as being among the attractive features
of this volume. One must also additionally note the emphasis laid on the less common
metals in the presentation. This is decidedly an additional special feature of the book. Chemi-
cal metallurgy of the less common metals described with pertinent principles involved has
not been done earlier in one place as has been accomplished in this publication. The abun-
dance of illustrations and the comprehensive collection of carefully selected references ap-
pended to each chapter add to the value and enhance considerably the overall strength of
the book. On the whole, the presentation displays an imaginative and competent handling
of the subject matter and really reaches out to the readers.
The volume deals with a very wide technical field and will be of interest and relevance to
many disciplines, particularly metallurgy, chemical engineering, and chemistry. It will un-
doubtedly be a valuable addition to the list of available books dealing with chemical metal-
lurgy. At the same time, this volume will be very useful to professionals working in the area
of extractive and process metallurgy. The present book has had the benefit of Dr. Gupta’s
wide and long-standing experience in the field in full measure and will certainly be greatly
valued by those to whom it is addressed. I wish this publication all success and hope it will
be as useful as the other books which Dr. Gupta has authored.
India, May 2003
B. Bhattacharjee
Director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
and Member of Atomic Energy Commission
Chemical Metallurgy: Principles and Practice.
Chiranjib Kumar Gupta
Copyright © 2003 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
ISBN: 3-527-30376-6
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