PREFACE

摘要

This book collects selected papers presented at the 6th International Symposium on High-Temperature Metallurgical Processing organized in conjunction with the TMS 2015 Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Orlando, Florida, USA. As the title of symposium suggests, the book is on thermal processing of minerals, metals and materials and intends to promote physical and chemical transformations in the materials to enable recovery of valuable metals or produce products such as pure metals, intermediate compounds, alloys, or ceramics through various treatments. The symposium was open to participants from both industry and academia and focused on innovative high-temperature technologies including those based on non-traditional heating methods as well as their environmental aspects. Because high-temperature processes require high energy input to sustain the temperature at which the processes take place, the symposium intends to address the needs for sustainable technologies with reduced energy consumption and reduced emission of pollutants. The symposium also welcomed contributions on thermodynamics and kinetics of chemical reactions and phase transformations that take place at elevated temperature.