Extraction and critical uses of rare earths in the 21st Century as determined by their occurrence, chemistry, physics and atomic structure.
1. Overview2. Rare Earth Production, Uses and Prices3. Rare Earths Mining and Concentrate Production4. Rare Earth Elements Extraction from Concentrates5. Rare Earths Purification, Separation and Precipitation and Calcination6. Production of Rare Earth Metals and Alloys – Electrowinning7. Metallothermic Rare Earth Metal Reduction8. Rare earths electronic structures and trends in properties9. Rare Earths based Catalysts10. Rare Earths in Rechargeable Batteries11. Rare Earths in Alloys and Metals12. Polishing with Rare Earth Oxides mainly cerium oxide CeO213. Permanent magnets based on Rare Earths: Fundamentals14. Rare Earths based Magnets: Fundamentals15. Rare Earths based Magnets: Preparation and Uses16. Rare Earths Luminescent Materials: Introduction17. Rare Earths Luminescent Materials: Applications18. Rare Earth doped Lasers and Optical Amplifiers19. Rare Earth Recycle20. Epilogue
Jacques Lucas is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and
Emeritus Professor at the University of Rennes, France. He has
co-authored several books on glasses, ceramics, and optics. He has
been involved in rare earths research (photonics) as well as
teaching for more than 40 years. He published more than 450
articles and co-chaired several international conferences devoted
to rare earths doped optical materials. He founded and headed the
CNRS Glass and Ceramic laboratory at University of Rennes for 30
years. Three start-up companies were founded based on the
laboratory discoveries. He has also been Associate professor at
University of Arizona and invited Professor at Kyoto University,
Japan as well as at Shanghai University, PR China. He is in close
contact with Solvay, the world leading company in rare earth
separation, as well as with the Chinese and Japanese rare earth
scientific community.
Pierre Lucas is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at
the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. He has led several funded
research projects on rare-earth doped luminescent glasses. He has
been temporarily employed as an analytical chemist at Rhodia’s
rare-earth refining plant in France. He is author of more than 60
peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters in solid state
physics and chemistry.
Thierry Le Mercier is Head of the Functional Inorganic Materials
Lab, Solvay, France. He specialises in solid state chemistry and
optical properties of inorganic materials. He has been working for
Solvay (previously Rhodia), a world-leading company in rare earths
since 1998. He is currently the head of research and development
department focused on new inorganic materials and breakthrough
developments for energy applications and sustainable resources. He
has been developing new rare earths phosphor materials for lighting
and display systems. He is author of more than 30 patents is this
field. Alain Rollat has been working in the rare earths industry
(Rhône-Poulenc, Rhodia and Solvay) for more than 30 years, both in
the Aubervilliers Research Center and in the La Rochelle plant.
During this period, he has developed several processes in the field
of rare earths separation and purification (12 patents) and
participated in the design and start-up of new production units of
rare earths in France and China. He is currently Technology
Development Manager in charge of new processes implementation for
the 5 plants of Solvay Rare Earth Systems, a Business Unit of
Solvay group. He is also in charge of new rare earths sourcing for
Solvay, and in this capacity, he has been working over the last 5
years with the main rare earths mining projects around the world.
Professor William George Davenport is a graduate of the University
of British Columbia and the Royal School of Mines, London. Prior to
his academic career he worked with the Linde Division of Union
Carbide in Tonawanda, New York. He spent a combined 43 years of
teaching at McGill University and the University of Arizona.
His Union Carbide days are recounted in the book Iron Blast
Furnace, Analysis, Control and Optimization (English, Chinese,
Japanese, Russian and Spanish editions).
During the early years of his academic career he spent his summers
working in many of Noranda Mines Company’s metallurgical plants,
which led quickly to the book Extractive Metallurgy of Copper. This
book has gone into five English language editions (with several
printings) and Chinese, Farsi and Spanish language editions.
He also had the good fortune to work in Phelps Dodge’s Playas flash
smelter soon after coming to the University of Arizona. This
experience contributed to the book Flash Smelting, with two English
language editions and a Russian language edition and eventually to
the book Sulfuric Acid Manufacture (2006), 2nd edition 2013.
In 2013 co-authored Extractive Metallurgy of Nickel, Cobalt and
Platinum Group Metals, which took him to all the continents except
Antarctica.
He and four co-authors are just finishing up the book Rare Earths:
Science, Technology, Production and Use, which has taken him around
the United States, Canada and France, visiting rare earth mines,
smelters, manufacturing plants, laboratories and recycling
facilities.
Professor Davenport’s teaching has centered on ferrous and
non-ferrous extractive metallurgy. He has visited (and continues to
visit) about 10 metallurgical plants per year around the world to
determine the relationships between theory and industrial practice.
He has also taught plant design and economics throughout his career
and has found this aspect of his work particularly rewarding. The
delight of his life at the university has, however, always been
academic advising of students on a one-on-one basis.
Professor Davenport is a Fellow (and life member) of the Canadian
Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum and a twenty-five
year member of the (U.S.) Society of Mining, Metallurgy and
Exploration. He is recipient of the CIM Alcan Award, the TMS
Extractive Metallurgy Lecture Award, the AusIMM Sir George Fisher
Award, the AIME Mineral Industry Education Award, the American
Mining Hall of Fame Medal of Merit and the SME Milton E. Wadsworth
award. In September 2014 he will be honored by the Conference of
Metallurgists’ Bill Davenport Honorary Symposium in Vancouver,
British Columbia (his home town).
"This readable book takes you through mines, extraction plants, research labs, pilot plants, factories, and recycling plants, on four continents. Enjoy the journey!" --MRS Bulletin
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