Why it is separate from recovery
Concentration is not the same as meeting a materials requirement. Purification is the discipline that asks whether a stream can enter metallurgy.
[ Technology ] · purification
Purity as a requirement for metallurgy, not a slogan.
Purification sits between recovery and alloy or process development. The public statement is the purpose: make a feedstock suitable for materials work. The public statement is not a flowsheet.
What remains internal
Reagents, temperatures, yields, and equipment identities stay off this website.
Disciplines
Requirement
The next materials step defines what “suitable” means. Those numbers are not listed here.
Control
Unwanted constituents are treated as a controlled problem.
Handoff
Purified feedstock is an input to metallurgy and processing, not a retail product.
Related
- Alloy development
Where purified feedstock becomes a materials question.
- Materials · processing
Conversion after a feedstock is fit to process.
Alloy and process development sit next.
Composition and processing studies, described as capability classes.