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Materials Engineering—From Ideas to Practice: An EPD Symposium in Honor of Jiann-Yang Hwang pp 3–11Cite as

Materials Processing, from Ideas to Practice

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Abstract

Dr. Jiann-Yang Hwang served as the Director of the Institute of Materials Processing at Michigan Technological University for more than 20 years. Many technologies have been developed from ideas to commercial practices in his career life. This symposium reflects his contributions in this aspect. The cycle of materials such as metals on the earth involved the steps of ore exploration (geology), mining, mineral processing, metallurgy, manufacturing, and recycling. Each step is achieved by processing materials using energy. Depending on the process and the forms of energy input, products, and by-products with various environmental impacts are generated through air, water, and solid means. To obtain the most efficient process with the minimum environmental impacts at the best economics is the driving force that continuously pushes the advances of technologies. Variables in the materials, process, and energy are common parameters facilitating the development of ideas for technology advancements. Dr. Hwang learned earth sciences, mineralogy, characterization, mineral processing, and metallurgy during his undergraduate and graduate studies. Mining, materials, and processing, and environmental and economics are mostly self-studied at postgraduate time, partly pushed by the research needs from projects he wanted to conduct. Understanding the parameters involved in the materials, energy, environment, and economics is fundamental to a systematic approach. The validity of ideas and their potential to move to practice depend on the soundness of the system. The author reviewed several cases of his research to illustrate their relations.

Keywords

  • Mineral processing
  • Magnetic separation
  • Microwave metallurgy
  • Recycling
  • Hydrogen storage
  • Water treatment
  • Material lifecycle

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  1. Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, 49931, USA

    Jiann-Yang Hwang

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA

    Dr. Bowen Li

  2. The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

    Prof. Baojun Zhao

  3. CanmetMATERIALS, Hamilton, ON, Canada

    Dr. Jian Li

  4. Military Institute of Engineering, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Prof. Sergio Neves Monteiro

  5. Central South University, Changsha, China

    Dr. Zhiwei Peng

  6. RHI Magnesita, Leoben, Austria

    Dr. Dean Gregurek

  7. Central South University, Changsha, China

    Tao Jiang

  8. Futianbao Environmental Protection Technology Company, Xian, China

    Yong Shi

  9. Futianbao Environmental Protection Technology Company, Xian, China

    Cuiping Huang

  10. Al Isra University, Amman, Jordan

    Dr. Shadia Ikhmayies

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Hwang, JY. (2021). Materials Processing, from Ideas to Practice. In: , et al. Materials Engineering—From Ideas to Practice: An EPD Symposium in Honor of Jiann-Yang Hwang. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65241-8_1

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