Control metallurgy industry

The kinetics of diffusion-controlled phase transformations has long been a focus of research and it is vital information for industrial practice as well as being a fascinating theme in fundamental physical metallurgy. An early overview of the subject is by Aaronson et ai (1978). 

The synthetic method used in preparing a particular boride phase depends primarily on its intended use. Whereas for basic research borides of high purity are desirable, for industrial applications, e.g., in coatings, tools and crucibles, as a refining agent in metallurgy or in control rods in nuclear energy plants, pure borides are unnecessary. 

In industry, radiation is applied both as an initiator and as a control mechanism on one hand, and as a sustainer of reactions on the other. Among the many industrial uses of radiation, one may mention food preservation, curing of paints, manufacture of wood-plastic combinations, syntheses of ethyl bromide, of ion exchange materials, of various graft copolymers, and of materials for textile finishing. In addition, there are important uses of tracers in various process industries and in mining and metallurgy. 

This book examines comprehensively the chlorine industry and its effects on the environment. It covers not only the history of chlorine production, but also looks at its products, their effects on the global environment and the international legislation which controls their use, release and disposal. Individual chapters are dedicated to subjects such as end use processes, water disinfection and metallurgy, environmental release of organic chlorine compounds, polychlorinated biphenyls, legal instruments and the future of the chlorine industry. 

Usually electrorefining is a major unit operation of extractive metallurgy modern industrial plants operate with high current efficiency (the unused current is mainly wasted by leakage currents to the ground and anode to cathode short circuits) as a result of improved monitoring and control systems. 

The fields of applications range from metallurgy to the semiconductor industry, to medicine, the petrochemical industry, electricity production, chemical cogeneration (i.e., the simultaneous production of electricity, heat, and chemicals), atmospheric control within the laboratory, and so on. However, virtually no large-scale industrial applications have yet been reported, and for a variety of reasons, including ... 

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