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:

• Describe and analyze the production chain for the production of metals from metal/ore raw material to final product.
• Describe, analyze and compare high temperature processes in metal production, for both liquid and solid phase.
• Identify relevant information for a production chain based on available databases and scientific literature to compare and evaluate these.
• Apply heat and mass balances in metallurgical processes.
• Analyze and discuss basic concepts in the theory of organization and gender.
• Explain and discuss what the concept of sustainable development within the metal industry means and how the metal industry is part of a circular economy

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 the content.  If recording works as expected, the lectures given in this course offering will be available.  If recording does not work for any reason, recordings of the equivalent lectures from previous years will be made available. No major changes have been made to the course content since last year. Slides from this year will be made available on Canvas.

It is not mandatory to attend lectures, but it is highly recommended.  You are 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.  It is intended that each lecture will give you an introduction to new information, which you will then use as the basis of your own learning.

You will not need to prepare for the first workshop/seminar (on research methodologies and resources at KTH).  You will be asked to perform a small task to prepare for the second workshop/seminar (on gender equality in metallurgy). Instructions will be given during the course.  It is hoped that the presentations from each workshop will be recorded and made available for you on Canvas, but this is not guaranteed and depends on the leaders of each individual workshop.  Slides will be made available from each workshop.

You are expected to work on your group project throughout the course, using information provided during the course.  Time is provided in your timetable (each Friday 0800-1200 during the course). You do not need to use this time if you and your group decide that another arrangement is better for you: it is up to each group to decide when they work. The time booked in the timetable is only provided to guarantee that all group members will be available at the same time to collaborate, but if you can collaborate at other times and prefer to not work together in the time slot provided, that is perfectly acceptable.  The workload of four hours per week is also a good guide for the total work required, regardless of when you perform the work.

Here is the provisional course timetable.  Please check Schema (KTH timetable system, via the KTH website) to check for updates.  All dates, times and locations are subject to change during the course.

Subscribe to course calendar using this link (opens external website and downloads calendar file that can be used with multiple programs like iCal, iPhone Calendar and Outlook).

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 Thermodynamics 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 project 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 examinations.  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: 30 points
• Group presentation: 22 points
• Individual assessment of group project: 8 points
• Participation in mandatory exercise sessions: pass/fail

The overall grade for the course will be given according to criteria that will be published during the course.  By default, Canvas generates grades according to a different set of criteria.  Every effort will be made to hide or prevent these grades from appearing in Canvas, but any such grades generated by Canvas should be ignored.  Grades will be published in a special assignment created in Canvas called "Overall course grade".

Students who miss the project presentation 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. Students are asked to discuss any absense from the final seminar with the examiner prior to the seminar itself. Attendance is expected at the entire seminar, unless otherwise agreed with the examiner.

Any student who receives a grade "FX" for any single assignment may resubmit that assignment to improve their grade.  In such cases, the highest grade that shall be awarded for that assignment is "E".

Any student who achieves a grade "FX" for any examination should discuss options to resubmit one or more assignments in that examination to improve their grade for that examination event (PRO2, TEN1, ÖVN1) with the examiner. In such cases, the highest grade that shall be awarded for that examination event is "E". Assignments that are failed (grade "F", or not submitted at all) may not be resubmited. Other assignments may be resubmitted to achieve extra credit towards the overall course grade, but the grades achieved after the original submission of the assignment shall count for grading purposes.

Should any student achieve a grade "FX" for the course, they should discuss options to resubmit one or more assignments to improve their overall course grade with the examiner. In such cases, the highest grade that shall be awarded for the course is "E". Assignments that are failed (grade "F", or not submitted at all) may not be resubmited. Other assignments may be resubmitted to achieve extra credit towards the overall course grade, but the grades achieved after the original submission of the assignment shall count for grading purposes.

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 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 for each assignment will be reported in Gradebook in Canvas in the first instance, shortly after the individual deadlines or examination sessions.  The final course grade will be reported in a special assignment called "Overall course grade" only - no other grades (e.g. automatically generated by Canvas) should be taken as correct.  Grades will be reported via Ladok shortly after the final grades are reported in Canvas.

• 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.

No changes have been made to the course after the 2022 offering.