The following papers will be presented at the Julian Szekely Memorial Symposium on Materials Processing, on Monday morning, October 6th, 1997.

SESSION 1: GAS-SOLID REACTIONS

8:45 am
Opening Remarks

8:50 am
Developments in Gas-Solid Reaction Analysis: H.Y. Sohn, Dept. of Metallurgical Engineering, University of Utah, 412 Browning Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0114, USA

9:15 am
Kinetic Analyses on the Rate of Gaseous Reduction of Single Particles and Packed Beds of Iron Ore Agglomerates: T. Usui, M. Ohmi, M. Naito, H. Kamiya, Y. Oshima, and Z.-I. Morita, Dept. of Materials Science & Processing, Osaka University, Osaka, 565, Japan

9:40 am
Numerical Analysis of a Moving Bed Reactor for Iron Scrap Melting: J.-I. Yagi, T. Akiyama, and X. Zhang, Institute for Advance Materials Processing, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-77 Japan

10:05 am
Kinetics of Chromite Reduction with Carbon: R.G. Reddy and M.V. Klein, University of Alabama, Dept. of Metal and Materials Engineering, A-129 Bevill Bldg., 126 7th St., P.O. Box 870202, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0202, USA

10:30 am
Break

10:40 am
Gas-Solid Reactions in Thermal Plasma Environments Synthesis of Non-Oxide Ceramic Powders: P.R. Taylor, University of Idaho, Dept. of Metal Mining, McClure Hall #203B, Moscow, Idaho, 83844-3024, USA

11:05 am
The Intrinsic Thermal Decomposition Kinetics of Some Alkaline-Earth Carbonates: I. Arvanitidis, D. Sichen, H. Y. Sohn*, and S. Seetharaman, Royal Institute of Technology, Dept. of Theoretical Metallurgy, Brinellv 23, Stockholm S-10044, Sweden; *University of Utah, Dept. of Metallurgical Engineering, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84112, USA

11:30 am
An Experimental Study of the Reaction of Sulfur Dioxide with Pyrrhotite Produced by Pyrolysis of Pyrite: M. Dell'Amico, W.J. Rankin, and D.J. McCarthy, G.K. Williams Cooperative Research Centre for Extractive Metallurgy, CSIRO, Division of Minerals, PO Box 312, Clayton South, 3169 Australia