Extractive Metallurgy Laboratory

Extractive Metallurgy Laboratory was founded in Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University in 2015. Pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical studies are mainly carried out in this laboratory.

Extractive metallurgy is a branch of metallurgical engineering where in process and methods of extraction of metals from their natural mineral deposits are studied. The field is a materials science, covering all aspects of the types of ore, washing, concentration, separation, chemical processes and extraction of pure metal and their alloying to suit various applications. The field of ferrous and non-ferrous extractive metallurgy has specialties that are generically grouped into the categories of mineral processing, hydrometallurgy, pyro metallurgy, and electrometallurgy based on the process adopted to extract the metal.

Hydrometallurgy is a technique within the field of extractive metallurgy involving the use of aqueous chemistry for the recovery of metals from ores, concentrates, and recycled or residual materials.

Pyro metallurgy is a branch of extractive metallurgy. It consists of the thermal treatment of minerals and metallurgical ores and concentrates to bring about physical and chemical transformations in the materials to enable recovery of valuable metals. It is known that different wastes (red sludge, fly ash, scrap, slag, flue dust, anode slime, flotation wastes, leach residues and filter cake etc.) can be formed at different stages of the production process in each metal industry.

In our laboratory, researches are carried out on hydrometallurgical and/or pyro metallurgical evaluation of such wastes containing considerable amount of different metals. Laboratory facilities are being developed in terms of equipment with various projects and also provide training and research opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students in our laboratory.

Instruments in Laboratory

• Atmosphere Controlled High Temperature Oven

• Muffle Furnace

• Incubator

• Chiller

• Analytical Balance

• pH meter

• Magnetic Rotating Heater

• Vacuum Filter

For more information, please contact with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aydın RÜŞEN and Res. Assist. Mehmet Ali TOPÇU.