COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MINERAL PARTICLE SYSTEMS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MIN 5068 MINERAL PARTICLE SYSTEMS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR EROL KAYA

Offered to

Mineral Processing
Mineral Processing

Course Objective

1. Teaching characteristics and behaviours of particle systems
2. Teaching particle size, shape factors and surface area and their measurements
3. Teaching mathematical forms of size representation and size distribution transformations
4. Teaching sampling methods and calculations of sample amount
5. Teaching particulate behaviour in fluids
6. Teaching agglomeration mechanisms
7. Teaching the production of particulates and controlling their characteristics

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Knows basic concepts of particle size and particle systems
2   Knows different particle size distributions (mass, volume, area, number distributions)
3   Knows mathematical forms of particle size distributions
4   Knows and uses the instruments measuring particle size, surface area, density, porosity
5   Produces particulates with different properties and controls their characteristics

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Definitions of basic characteristics and behaviours of particle systems
2 Particle size, shape, surface area, density, characterization of particles
3 Distributions of particle size, shape and other properties and their mathematical representations
4 Instruments measuring particle size and their limitations (microscopy, screens and sedimentation)
5 Instruments measuring particle size and their limitations (counting particles, , laser diffraction )
6 Instruments measuring airborne particle size distributions and their limitations
7 Instruments measuring surface area and porosity and their limitations
8 VISA 1
9 Sampling methods and sampling amount
10 Particle behaviour in fluids, viscous force, Reynolds no
11 Agglomeration mechanisms, effective forces, and their measurements
12 Producing particles with different properties and controlling their characteristics, and size reduction mechanisms
13 Industrial applications of particle systems, cement, paint, food, ceramic, drug, etc.
14 Presentation of assignments

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s):
1) Class notes
2) Particle Size Measurement (1990), T. Allen.

Subsidiary sources:
1) Particle Size Theory and Industrial Applications (1965), R.. D. Cadle.
2) Principles of Mineral Processing (2003), Eds.: M. C. Fuerstenau and K. N. Han.
3) Mineral Processing Plant Design, Practice and Control, Eds.: A. L. Mular, D. N. Halbe and D. J. Barratt.
4) Process Engineering of Size Reduction: Ball Milling (1984), L.G. Austin, R.R. Klimpel, and P.T. Luckie.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Class lectures
Homework
Laboratory applications

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.25 + ASG *0.25 +FIN *0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.25 + ASG *0.25 +RST *0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods


Assessment Criteria

Mid-term exam %25
Assignments %25
Final %50

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

erol.kaya@deu.edu.tr; 232 301 7514

Office Hours

Open door policy any time.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 3 36
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 4 8 32
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 128

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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