INDUSTRIAL INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
cod. 07517

Academic year 2007/08
3° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Chimica industriale (CHIM/04)
Field
Discipline industriali
Type of training activity
Characterising
27 hours
of face-to-face activities
3 credits
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course unit
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Learning objectives

<br /><br />The course aims at providing information about industrial production and use of the main inorganic compounds. 

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

<br />Water: production of potable water; deionized water; potable water from marine water. <br />Fluorine and derivatives: industrial processes for hydrogen fluoride production; salts of industrial interest; fluorine; uses in chemical industry <br />Boron and derivatives: industrial processes for the production of borax and boric acid; other compounds of boron of industrial interest; applications in the field of materials, detergents and chemical industry.<br />Titanium and derivatives: industrial process for the production of titanium dioxide; use as pigment. Inorganic pigments made from  iron sources. <br />Aluminium and derivatives: industrial processes for the production of aluminium, aluminium hydroxide and aluminium oxide; industrial process for  aluminium trichloride production and other salts of industrial interest.<br />Silicon and its derivatives:industrial process for  elementary silicon production; silicones; zeolites and their application in  catalysis. <br />Applications in the industry of glasses, cement and  ceramics.<br /> 

Full programme

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Bibliography

<br />1.      W. Büchner, R. Schliebs, G. Winter, K.H. Büchel, Chimica Inorganica Industriale, Ed. Piccin.<br />2.      Industrial Inorganic Chemicals: Production and Uses. Ed. Thompson.<br />3.      Fine Chemicals through Heterogeneous Catalysis. Ed. R.A. Sheldon, H.van Bekkum.

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