METE523 MOLTEN SALT ELECTROLYSIS
| Course Code: | 5700523 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Metallurgical and Materials Engineering |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. İSHAK KARAKAYA |
| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
Explain terminologies, concepts and relationships governing the laws and relationships related to electrochemistry and molten salt electrolysis,
Do applications of; resistance, cell potential and overpotential computations,
Do potential and energy computations for electrodeposition, electrodissolution and reversible cells;
Use electrochemical consepts to discuss topics in materials processing.
Course Content
Physicochemical properties of melts; structure of melts. Thermodynamics of molten salt mixtures; activity models, melts with common ion, complex formation, reciprocal salt systems. Galvanic concentration cells, membrane potential. Electrolysis in molten salts, Faraday's law, metal solubility, current efficiency, electrode kinetics. Industrial applications; Hall-Heroult process, magnesium electrolysis.
Course Learning Outcomes
An ability to apply knowlwdge of electrochemistry in materials processing;
An ability to desing and calculate data related to electrochemical processes in metallurgical and materials engineering;
An ability to design a system,component or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, polytical, ethical, health and saftety, manufacturability and sustainability;
An ability to identify, to formulate, and solve engineering problems;
The broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in global and societal context;
A knowledge of the scientific and engineering principles underlying the four major elements of the field; structure, properties, processing and performance related to material systems;
An ability to apply and integrate knowledge from each of the four major elements of the field to solve materials and/or process selection and design problems.