Material production and treatment processes including preparation of raw materials,
production of metals,
heat and mechanical treatments of metal products.
Basic knowledge of physicochemical processes in metallurgy including application of thermodynamic and kinetic processes, ternary phase diagrams, mass and energy balances for calculations in metallurgical processes.

Having finishing the course the student will be able to:

· Briefly describe the structure of main routes for material production and treatment processes from raw material to final production

· Briefly describe the main processes of material production in liquid and solid states at high temperature, analyse and compare advantages and disadvantages of main production processes

· Understand and apply ternary phase diagrams in metallurgical processes

· Understand and apply heat and mass balances in metallurgical processes

· Carry out an advanced literature survey in KTH databases to obtain relevant information for specific projects

· Apply individual skills as well as team skills in preparation of project report and presentation

The course consists of four types of learning activity:

• Lectures
• Online (asynchronous) learning
• Workshop/seminars
• Group project

Recordings of all lectures will be available online afterwards for you to review wthe content.  If recording works as expected, the lectures given in this course offering wil lbe available.  If recording does not work, recordings of the course form 2020 will be made available. No major changes have been made to the course content since 2020. Slides from this year will be made available on Canvas.

It is not mandatory to attend lectures, but it is highly recommended.  Y ouare asked to have reviewed material from previous lectures and the online teaching material related to previous lectures on Canvas before each lecture.  No other preparation is necessary.

You will not need to prepare for the first workshop/seminar (on research methodologies and resources at KTH).  You will be asked to prepare for the second workhsop/seminar (on gender equality in metallurgy). Instructions will be given during the course.

You are expected to work on your group project throughout the course, using information provided during the course.

Schema HT-2021-791

Fundamental principles of process metallurgy corresponding to what is taught in the course MH1029 Sustainable process technology

No specific preparations are required for this course.

No specific literature is recommended for the metallurgical processing parts this course, but various textbooks are available.

Thermodynamics of metallurgy are sumamrised well in Introduction to the RThermodynamics of MAterials by David R. Gaskell and David E. Laughlin, CRC Press, ISBN 978-1-4987-5700-3. This book is available in the KTH library and student union bookshop.  It is not required or suggested to purchase the book for this course.

No specialist software will be used in the course. Standard software, such as Microsoft Office or LaTeX are recommended for preparing the report and presentation for the group project. Microsoft 365 is available to KTH students via the KTH website (https://intra.kth.se/en/it/programvara-o-system/programvara/installera/download/office-365).  LaTeX is available for free on the internet to download and run on your computer (e.g. from the Tex User's group (www.tug.org) as packages TeXLive (Windows, Linux) or MacTeX (Mac)) and can also be run via an online typesetting service, such as Overleaf (www.overleaf.com).

Students at KTH with a permanent disability can get support during studies from Funka:

Funka - compensatory support for students with disabilities

A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

• PRO2 - Project, 3.0 credits, Grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
• TEN1 - Written exam, 2.0 credits, Grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
• ÖVN1 - Exercise, 1.0 credits, Grading scale: P, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

Project ( PRO2 )

Students shall perform a proejct in a small group throughout the course and the outcome of this project shall be presented in a seminar at the end of the course and as a written report. Students shall also provide a short personal reflexion of the group performance.

Written exam ( TEN1 )

Students shall perform a time-limited home task. Each student shall get a unique randomly-generated question.

Exercise ( ÖVN1 )

Students are required to participate in two exercise sessions during the course.

Detailed rubrics are available in Canvas for individual examiantions.  Grades will be based on the sum of grades from all individual examinations. The individual parts of the examination are worth the following credit:

• Home exam: 40 points
• Group report: 35 points
• Group presentation: 19 points
• Individual assessment of group project: 6 points
• Participation in mandatory exercise sessions: pass/fail

Students who miss the project presentation without prior discussion with the examiner may complete the course by presenting at an alternative meeting.  In such cases, the student who missed the original session shall be expected to present alone and not with any members of their group who did attend the original session.

Currently, there is no opportunity to improve grades by repeating any part of the examination.

If students have a valid reason to not attend the mandatory exercise session or the project presentation seminar (illness, family funeral, clash with another mandatory session, etc.), they should contact the examiner, Chris Hulme (chrihs@kth.se) to arrange an alternative task.  It is the responsibility of the student to request such a task in good time if at all possible.

Grades will be reported in Gradebook in Canvas in the first instance, shortly after the individual examinations.  Grades will be reported via Ladok shortly after the final grades (from the home exam) are reported in Gradebook.

• All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
• In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
• In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.

Based on feedback from students in the 2020 offering (the first year for which Chris Hulme was the examiner and main teacher), the following changes were made to the course:

• More practice questions shall be made available on Canvas.
• Gender equality has been made a criterion for grading in the group project presentation and written report (in 2020, it was a standalone exericse and not part of the group project).
• The session with KTH Library was criticised by students from the KTH bachelor's programme as it gave them no new information. It was mentioned in the first lecture that this was likely, but this point has been made even more clear in the lecture for 2021.