The course includes development, design and operation of processes and plant for the extraction, conversion and recovery of materials. Among the more familiar are petroleum refining, gas processing, petrochemical and polymer production, fertiliser manufacture, cement and lime production, minerals and metals extraction and refining, paper and board manufacture, sugar refining, food processing, production of industrial and fine chemicals. Metallurgical engineering and extractive metallurgy are specialist fields that deal with the extraction of metals and mineral products from their ores through the application of science and engineering principles.The double degree with Extractive Metallurgy gives Chemical Engineering students a sound knowledge and understanding of chemistry and the principles of metal extraction from ores.