Topic outline

  • General

  • 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 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