Recovery of Zinc and Iron from Zinc Ash Paperback – Import, 8 October 2010

There are times in life when there is great disappointment. However, in terms of book purchases this is usually limited to either a bad read or content with which one disagrees. This purchase ticked all these boxes and some. It appears to be a student project, on a bench scale, with a few typos and lots of padding. Having been an external examiner at universities for some time, I wasn’t sure what to make of it. The literature search is incomplete and has some spurious detail of no real relevance to the topic. A series of appendices take one through elementary chemistry even to a photograph of a photospectrometer which serves no other purpose than promoting a single branded product. So pages 22 to 34 inclusive cover the experimental work and results. Yes, there are some 12 pages of apparent substance for sale at £40.74 or £3.40 per page (thereabouts). I don’t live in the UK where I had this delivered to so imagine my frustration at receiving a poor 4-year student project write-up being offered under the misrepresentative title as shown. There is no coverage of the comminution process required prior to processing, the filtering systems employed, how to separate contaminants on an industrial scale, etc, etc. Were I resident in the UK, I would take the matter further. As a text to further knowledge (a possible reason behind a student project) this adds nothing. As a text on an industrial process, and the provision of additional knowledge, it has no content. All in all, a misrepresentation of note.