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Travelling In Cuba, Fathi Habashi Feb 2013

Travelling In Cuba, Fathi Habashi

Fathi Habashi

Contact with Cuban scientists was established in 1986 when two researchers from Centro de Investigaciones para Industria Minero Metalurgica in Havana visited Laval University to get acquainted with research activities in the area of extractive metallurgy. This was followed in early 1987 by two more researchers from the same centre. Invitations were then received in late 1987, 1989, and 2008 to visit the nickel refineries in Cuba and to hold seminars at the University of Havana. The present report outlines these activities.


One Hundred Years Bayer Process For Alumina Production [In Arabic], Fathi Habashi Feb 1988

One Hundred Years Bayer Process For Alumina Production [In Arabic], Fathi Habashi

Fathi Habashi

Karl Josef Bayer (1847-1904), an Austrian citizen, went to study for a short time under Remingius Fresenius in Wiesbaden, then under Robert Bunsen in Heidelberg from 1868 to 1871. After a short period of independent work in Brno in Moravia he left to Russia to work at the Tentelev Chemical Plant in Saint Petersburg then at Yelbuga. It was there that he invented his process for the production of pure alumina from bauxite. In 1894 he returned to Austria but died suddenly at the age of 57. An Arabic translation of a text first published in Bulletin Canadian Institute of …


Friedrich August Henglein, Fathi Habashi Aug 1968

Friedrich August Henglein, Fathi Habashi

Fathi Habashi

Friedrich August Henglein (1893-1968) while working in the chemical industry in Germany performed in 1926 the first experiments for pressure leaching of zinc sulfide to form zinc sulfate solution. This was in connection of removing hydrogen sulfide from coke oven gas by absorption in zinc sulfate solution. The ZnS precipitated can then be transformed into zinc sulfate for recycle.