Center for Pyrometallurgy-IIT Madras, Chennai

The Center for Pyrometallurgy is established under Institute of Eminence Scheme of IIT Madras in 2021. The objective of this unique center would be to impart training, education and industrial consultancies in the much needed area of pyrometallurgical route based metal production and refining. The majority of R&D work will be pre-competitive in nature and is aimed at solving common problems of industries – such as optimization and control of large scale production reactors involved in ferrous and non-ferrous extraction and refining of metals, process modelling, sintering and reducibility of low grade ores, waste recycling and utilization, steel cleanliness, ferro-alloy production, copper smelting, recovery of precious metals and rare earths from slags, anode muds and so on. The research projects will be conducted in close collaboration with metallurgical industries of common interest. 

Potential Industry/R&D Partners are invited to collaborate with this center.