Thermodynamic Modeling of Metallurgical Processes
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Computation and Simulation on Metals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2021) | Viewed by 12919
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Thermodynamic modeling; process simulation of pyrometallurgical process; hydrogen reduction kinetics; steelmaking process; recycling of industrial waste
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: Thermodynamic modeling; hardness modeling; crystal plasticity; grain boundary; materials design
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Thermodynamic modeling is important, especially for the design of metallurgical processes. In many industrial processes, the operational efficiency and product quality have been strictly related to the operators’ experience; however, the optimum condition can now be found better by applying the increased computational capacity. Many technological problems will be solved by the thermodynamic modeling approach, because the critical assessment in the multicomponent systems enables us to provide the useful thermodynamic knowledge on the complicated chemical reactions in the various metallurgical processes.
This Special Issue invites research that contributes to thermodynamic modeling of metallic systems integrated with critical experiments or aided by first-principles calculations. In particular, thermodynamic applications, including pyrometallurgy, extractive metallurgy, and electrochemical processes, are encouraged. Research may address but is not limited to the area below:
- Refining of liquid steel and alloys;
- Extraction of valued metals from industrial wastes;
- Solid-phase equilibria and phase transformation of alloy systems;
- Process simulation based on thermodynamic calculation;
- Experimental and computational studies that investigate chemical and physical properties of alloys and compounds.
Dr. Minkyu Paek
Dr. Hongyeun Kim
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Thermodynamic assessment
- Phase diagram
- Thermodynamic database
- Critical experiment
- Steelmaking
- Inclusion metallurgy
- Alloy design
- Extraction of valued metals
- First-principles calculation