
Unformatted text preview: Pyrometallurgy SYMPOSIUM: 03 PYROMETALLURGY
PYROMETALLURGY CODE AUTHOR PY01 James Edwards PY02 Kim Fagerlund PY03 Dean Gregurek PY04 Dean Gregurek PY05 N. Brogden PY06
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PY14 TITLE ABSTRACT COMING OF AGE - 21 YEARS COMERCIAL
OPERATION OF COPPER ISASMELT IM AT MONT ISA
SMELTING - INTEGRATED, SUSTAINABLE PLANT
SOLUTION
WEAR PHENOMENA OF BASIC BRICK LININGS IN
COPPER INDUSTRY
CORROSION TESTING METHODS FOR NEWLY
DEVELOPED REFRACTORY PRODUCTS
ELECTROMAGNETIC LEVEL PROFILE
MEASUREMENT SYSTEM TESTED BY AGELLIS
GROUP AB ON KENNECOTT COPPER FLASH SMELTERS
IS DESIGNED
TO ENHANCE
PROCESS
CONTROL DECISION
MAKING
AND IMPROVE
OPERATOR SAFETY
Klaus Gamweger FIELD REPORTS OF THE NEW INNOVATIVE GAS
PURGING SYSTEM FOR STATIONARY AND TILTING
COPPER ANODE FURNACES
F. Alvear
SMELTING OF KAZAKHSTAN CONCENTRATES AT
UST-KAMENOGORSK USING A COPPER ISASMELT™
FURNACE
Angelika Ressler DESTRUCTIVE AND NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING
METHODS FOR THE CHARACTERIZATION OF
MGOCR2O3-BASED REFRACTORY BRICKS
Chiharu Tokoro SULFULIZATION AND SLOW-COOLING FOR
MOLYBDENUM RECOVERY FROM COPPER
SMELTING SLAG
Gavin Swayn
DESIGN AND COMMISSIONING OF THE OUTOTEC®
AUSMELT TSL COPPER SMELTER AT DNMC
Cristian
General Maintenance of Electric Furnace
Martinez
Grf Alvear
XSTRATA TECHNOLOGY`S APPROACH FOR THE
PROCESSING OF COPPER BEARING MATERIALS
G. Richter
CALETONES SMELTER; ENVIRONMENTAL AND
COMPETITIVENESS CHALLENGES
Maximo Leon
ON THE INTERACTION BETWEEN REVERTS MEAN
PARTICLE SIZE AND FLASH FURNACE REACTION
SHAFT HEIGHT: A SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS Pyrometallurgy PY15 Taufiq Hidayat A THERMODYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION OF THE
"CU2O"-CONTAINING SLAG SYSTEM AND ITS
APPLICATIONS IN HIGH-TEMPERATURE COPPER
MAKING PROCESSES PY16
PY17 Carl Justav Berg
Per G.
Brännström PY18
PY19 G. Richter
G. Richter PY20 G. Richter PY21 Boajun Zhao PY22 Baojun Zhao PY24 Alejandro
Molina
Alejandro
Molina
F. Jimenez OPTIMUM DRYING SOLUTION FOR COPPER
CONCENTRATE
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS FOR PS
CONVERTERS WITH OUTOTEC'S CONVERTER HOOD
TECHNOLOGY FOR PRIMARY AND SECONDARY GAS
CAPTURE
INCREASE AVAILABILITY SMELTER PLANT
INCREASE SULFUR CAPTURE - OPERATIONAL
MANAGEMENT
INSTALLATION OF DILUTED OPXYGEN
COMBUSTION TECHNOLOGY IN A COPPER ANODE
REFINING FURNACE AT CODELCO EL TENIENTE
PLANT
FEATURES OF THE BOTTOM BLOWN OXYGEN
COPPER SMELTING TECHNOLOGY
VISCOSITY MEASUREMENTS FOR COPPER
SMELTING SLAGS
AVA (ANÁLISIS VÍA VISIÓN ARTIFICIAL)} SYSTEM PY25
PY26
PY27 THE SYSTEM FOR OPERATIONAL CONTROL OF
EMISSIONS (SCOE+)
SPECIATION OF COPPER IN FLASH, CONVERTER AND
SLAG CLEANING FURNACE SLAGS
Milorad ?irkovi? SYNERGY OF ENERGY RESOURCES OF COPPER
PYROMETALLURGY IN RTB BOR-SERBIA PY28 S. Pietrzyk PY29 J. Font PY30 B. T. Chambers PY31 A. Warczok PY33 Peter Björklund PY34 S. B. Breyner VISCOSITY
OF COPPER
FROM
THE PROCESS
OF DECOPPERING
IN ANSLAGS
ELECTRIC
FURNACE
OPTIMAL CONFIGURATION OF VOLTAGE AND
CURRENT INTENSITY IN AN ELECTRIC FURNACE
FOR SLAG CLEANING
SULPHATION ROASTING OF ENARGITE
CONCENTRATE
COPPER RECOVERY FROM THE SMELTING SLAG IN
A ELECTRIC FURNACE
RECENT EXPRIENCES FROM IMPLEMENTING
DYNAMIC PROCESS CONTROL AND MONITORING IN
THE FLASH SMELTING PROCESS
THERMAL SHOCK
RESISTANT
REFRACTORY
MATERIALS
FORALUMINA-CHROMIA
THE COPPER Pyrometallurgy INDUSTRY
PY35 Zhi Sun LIQUIDUS TEMPERATURES, MAJOR AND MINOR
ELEMENTS EQUILIBRIUM PARTITIONING IN COPPER PY36 Zhi Sun PY37 Czernecki Jozef PY38 Zhou Jun PY39 Vaajamo Lina PY40
PY41 Ata FallahMehrjardi
Sergio Carrasco PY42 Evgueni Jak PY43 E. Jak PY44 Katsunori
Yamaguchi SMELTING SLAG / MATTE
/GASMODEL
SYSTEMS
QUASI-CHEMICAL
VISCOSITY
FOR COPPERCONTAINING MULTI-COMPONENT LIQUID SLAGS
MEANS OF REMOVING LEAD AND ARSENIC DURING
THE COPPER PRODUCTION CYCLE IN UPGRADED
TECHNOLOGY OF KGHM POLSKA MIED? SA
FLASH SMELTING AND FLASH CONVERTING
PROCESS AND COMMISSIONING AT JINGUAN
COPPER
AN EXTENSIVE SLAG DATABASE: LEAD-ING THE
WAY
INVESTIGATION OF THE BATH-DEPOSIT INTERFACE
OF FREEZE-LININGS IN COPPER SLAGS
ADVANCED PILOT PLANT ROASTING TESTS GIVE NECESSARY KNOWLEDGE FOR DESIGN OF A LARGE
ROASTER PLANT AT MMH
INTEGRATED EXPERIMENTAL AND MODELLING
RESEARCH ON COPPER SLAGS PHYSICO-CHEMICAL
PROPERTIES IN SUPPORT OF OPTIMISATION OF
COPPER MAKING PROCESSES
CALCIUM FERRITE SLAG PHASE CHEMISTRY
CONTROL USED IN CONTINUOUS FLASH
CONVERTING
DISTRIBUTION RATIOS OF PLATINUM AND
PALLADIUM BETWEEN IRON OXIDE SLAGS AND PY45 Hiromichi Inada PY46 S. Sasai PY47 Jun-Ichi PY50 Masanori
Yoshida PY51 R. König MOLTEN COPPER AT 1573 K
IMPROVEMENT OF CIRCULATED WATER COOLING
SYSTEM FOR COPPER SLAG GRANULATION AND
EFFECTIVE USE OF BLEEDING-OFF WATER
DEVELOPMENT OF SIDE-BLOWING OXY-FUEL
CONCENTRATE BURNER IN FLASH SMELTING
PROCESS AT SUMITOMO TOYO SMELTER
STUDY ON LIQUIDUS TEMPERATURE AND
VISCOSITY OF COPPER SMELTING SLAG
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN OPTIMUM OPERATION
OP ERATION
AFTER THE INTRODUCTION OF THE O-SR PROCESS
AT ONAHAMA SMELTER & REFINERY
HIGH EFFICIENT SLAG CLEANING - LATEST RESULTS
FROM PILOT SCALE OPERATION Pyrometallurgy PY52 N. Cardona PY53 Javad Khosravi PY54
PY55 Baojun Zhao
Ata FallahMehrjardi PY56
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PY59
PY60
PY61
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PY63
PY64
PY65
PY66
PY67
PY68
PY69
PY70 OPTIMIZING CONVERTER AISLE OPERATION AT
ATLANTIC COPPER SMELTER, HUELVA, SPAIN
APPLICATION OF EXERGY ANALYSIS IN COPPER
SMELTING PRODUCTION PHASE EQUILIBRIA
STUDIES
FOR COPPER
SMELTIMG/
CONVERTING
SLAGS
INVESTIGATION OF FREEZE-LINING FORMED IN AN
INDUSTRIAL COPPER CONVERTING CALCIUM
FERRITE SLAGS
V.R. ParraCHEMICAL COMPOSITION AND DUST GENERATION
OF COPPER CONCENTRATE PARTICLES OXIDIZED
Sanchez
UNDER SUSPENSION-SMELTING CONDITIONS
V.R. ParraEVOLUTION OF SIZE DISTRIBUTION OF COPPER
Sanchez
CONCENTRATE PARTICLES OXIDIZED UNDER
SUSPENSION-SMELTING CONDITIONS
I. Wilkomirsky
CONTINUOUS CONVERTING OF COPPER MATTE IN A
MOLETEN - LAYER REACTOR
I. Wilkomirsky
PHYSICO - CHEMISTRY OF NEUTRAL ROASTING OF
HIGH ARSENIC COPPER CONCENTRATES
I. Wilkomirsky
RECOVERY OF COPPER, MOLYBDENUM, ZINC AND
IRON (HEMATITE) FROM COPPER SMELTER SLAGS
Claudio Queirolo NEW SLAG FLOTATION PLANT POTRERILLOS
SMELTER
Mark Coleman
REFINEMENT OF FLASH FURNACE AND CODELCO
TENIENTE REACTOR MATERIAL FEED SYSTEMS TO
UTILISE CALCINED CONCENTRATES
Xiaohong Hao
DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF OXYGEN
BOTTOM-BLOWING CU SMELTING TECHNOLOGY
Bing Li
DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONTINUOUS BOTTOMBLOWING MATTE CONVERTING PROCESS
Mike Santaluce
AN INTEGRATED LIFECYCLE APPROACH TO
FURNACE REBUILDS
P.J. Mackey
COPPER SMELTING TECHNOLOGIES IN 2013 AND
BEYOND
Alfredo Martinez USE OF WASTE HEAT BOILERS TO SAVE RESOURCES
Antoine Allanore DIRECT SULFIDES ELECTROLYSIS: A SUSTAINABLE
PROCESS FOR COPPER RECOVERY?
L. Scheunis
THE EFFECT OF IN SITU PHASE FORMATION ON THE
INFILTRATION BEHAVIOR AND CHEMICAL
DEGRADATION OF MAGNESIA-CHROMITE BRICKS IN
CONTACT WITH A SYNTHETIC NON-FERROUS SLAG Pyrometallurgy PY71 Marcin
Kacperski PY73 Patricio PY74 Hernandez N.
Alberto
Fernandez PY75 Matt Russell PY76 A.J.Rigby PY77 L. Voisin PY78 L. Voisin - J.
Diaz PY79
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PY86 PY87
PY88 OPTIMIZATION OF TECHNOLOGY FOR
CONCENTRATE SMELTING IN FLASH FURNACE
WITH CHARGE CHANGES
MECHANICAL SYSTEM FOR REVERTS CHARGING
INTO PEIRCE-SMITH
CONVERTERS
EMISSIONS
REDUCTION
AND PROCESS
IMPROVEMENTS ACHIEVED WITH THE NEW ANODE
FURNACE OFF-GAS SYSTEM AT ASARCO HAYDEN
TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENTS FOR SMELTER OFFGAS HEAT RECOVERY
THE USE OF CHROME-ALUMINA REFRACTORIES IN
THE HIGH WEAR AREAS OF ANODE REFINING
VESSLS
IMPURITY BEHAVIOUR DURING THE CONTINUOUS
CONVERTING OF COPPER MATTE IN A PACKED
P ACKED BED
REACTOR
OXIDATION KINETIC OF COPPER MATTE DURING THE CONTINUOUS CONVERTING PROCESS IN A
PACKED BED REACTOR
L. Voisin - F.
KINETIC AND MODELING OF CONTINUOUS COPPER
Mansilla
REFINING IN A PACKED BED REACTOR DURING THE
REDUCTION STAGE
L. Voisin - G.
PHASE RELATIONS AND MINOR ELEMENT
Damm
DISTRIBUTION IN CU-FE-PB-AS SYSTEM SATURATED
WITH CARBON AT 1473 K
L. Voisin - K.
PHASE RELATIONS AND MINOR ELEMENT
Mühlenbrock
DISTRIBUTION IN CU-FE-PB-SB SYSTEM SATURATED
WITH CARBON AT 1473 K
L. Voisin - E.
THERMO-FLUID-DYNAMICS MODELING FOR
CONTINUOUS CONVERTING PROCESS OF COPPER
Marambio
MATTE IN PACKED BED REACTOR
L. Voisin
CHARACTERIZATION AND FROTH FLOTATION OF
SMELTING FURNACE COPPER SLAG
Chang-Buhm
MAXIMIZATION OF HEAT RECOVERY BY
Kim
PRODUCING LOW PRESSURE STEAM
Jonkion Font
COPPER DISSOLUTION IN THE FEOX-SIO2 BASE SLAG
OF THE FLASH SMELTING FURNACE AND THE
TENIENTE CONVERTER AT THE CHUQUICAMATA
SMELTER
Kozhakhmetov S IMPROVEMENTS IN THE VANYUKOV SMELTING
TECHNOLOGY
J. Font - J.
CHUQUICAMATA SMELTER: PRESENT AND FUTURE
Ahumada Pyrometallurgy PY89 Yan Jie PY90 Li Feng PY91 Zhixiang Cui PY92 Zhixiang Cui PY93
PY95 Eduardo
Balladares
L. A. Campos PY96 L.B. Tsymbulov PY97 L.B. Tsymbulov PY98 P.Coursol PY99 M. Rosales PY101 G. Wastavino
PY103 Enrique Herrera
PY104 Stefan
Konetschnik
PY105 Arsenio (Jun)
Enriquez
PY106 Alessandro Navarra
PY134 Gert Erasmus LATEST DEVELOPMENT OF OXYGEN BOTTOMBLOWING COPPER SMELTING TECHNOLOGY
DEVELOPMENT OF COPPER/GOLD SULFIDE
CONCENTRATES PYROMETALLURGICAL PROCESS
INDUSTRIAL TEST DEVELOPMENT OF CONTINUOUS
BOTTOM BLOWN OXYGEN COPPER SMELTING
PROCESS
NEW DEVELOPMENT OF BOTTOM BLOWN OXYGEN
SMELTING TECHNOLOGY IN DONGYING FANGYUAN NONFERROUS METALS CO. LTD
COPPER SMELTING FLUE DUST CHARACTERIZATION
AS A KEY ISSUE IN THEIR TREATMENT
DESIGN OF A HEAT RECOVERY COOLING CHAMBER
SYSTEM FOR COPPER SMELTERS
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF
PYROMETALLURGICAL METHODS FOR PROCESSING
OF
SULFIDE
COPPER CONCENTRATION FROM
UDOCAN
DEPOSIT
OPTIMAL SLAG COMPOSITION FOR PROCESSING OF
COPPER NICKEL MATTES AND CONCENTRATES IN A
VANIUKOV TWO-ZONE CONVERTER THAT
PRODUCES BLISTER COPPER
ARSENIC REMOVAL FROM BLISTER COPPER USING
MOLTEN SODIUM AND CALCIUM SULPHATES
ON THE POSSIBILITY OF USING HIGH OXYGEN
ENRICHMENT IN TENIENTE CONVERTERS
COPPER CONTENT IN FLASH FURNACE SLAG
CHUQUICAMATA SMELTER, USING OLIVINE-TYPE
SLAG
CONTROLLING SO3 FORMATION IN THE OFF-GASES
PROCESS FROM THE ISASMELTTM FURNACE AT
SOUTHERN PERU ILO SMELTER
SERVICE LIVE INCREASE OF TSL LANCES USING
IONIC LIQUID COOLING TECHNOLOGY
AN UPDATE ON KENNECOTT UTAH COPPER'S USE OF
PRAXAIR'S COHERENT JET TECHNOLOGY IN ANODE
REFINING - DEVELOPMENTS SINCE 2010
AUTOMATIC SCHEDULING OF ALTONORTE
OPERATIONS USING GREEDY ALGORITHMS
A NOVEL METHOD FOR QUANTIFYING SMELTER SO2
FUGITIVE EMISSIONS USING AN OPEN PATH
FOURIER TRANSFORMS INFRARED (FTIR) ANALYSER Pyrometallurgy PY135 Thomas Zabev Pascal Coursol
PY136 Y. Prevost OBSERVATIONS ON THE REDUCTIVE PYRO DEARSENIFICATION OF ENARGITE
FORTY YEARS OF OPERATION OF THE NORANDA
REACTOR PROCESS PY137 A.Warczok
PY138 L. Diaz
PY139
PY140
PY141
PY142
PY143
PY144
PY145
PY146
PY147 PHENOMENOLOGY
OF COPPER
CONVERTING IN A PACKED
BEDMATTE CONTINUOUS
A MASS TRANSFER MODEL FOR MOLTEN COPPER
DEOXIDATION
M. Gous
DUST EXPLOSIONS AT THE CHAGRES SMELTER DUE
TO SPONTANEOUS SELF-HEATING OF DRIED COPPER
CONCENTRATES
Chunlin Chen
THERMODYNAMICS DATABASE OF SULPHIDE
SMELTING SYSTEM AND ITS APPLICATIONS TO
RECYCLING CU-PB-FE-S MATERIALS
Evelien De
CHARACTERIZATION METHODOLOGY FOR CUWilde
DROPLET LOSSES IN SLAGS
G. Wastavino
COPPER LOSSES CONTROL IN FLASH SMELTING
SLAG AT CHUQUICAMATA SMELTER
Bhavin Desai
CONTROL STRATEGY FOR REDUCING COPPER LOSS
FROM MITSUBISHI PROCESS
M. U. Jastrzebski IN PURSUIT OF IMPROVED FLASH-SMELTING
BURNER PERFORMANCE
Songlin Zhou
APPLICATION OF ROTATION-SUSPENSION
SMELTING PROCESS AND PULSE CYCLONE BURNER
IN XIANGGUANG COPPER
Afshin Sadri
APPLICATION OF SPECIALIZED NON-DESTRUCTIVE
TESTING (NDT) FOR OPERATING COPPER PROCESS
VESSELS
G. Richter
DEVELOPMENT PLAN CALETONES SMELTER PY148 Joel Kapusta
PY149 Michael Reed THE
SAVARD-LEE
SHROUDED
INJECTOR:
A REVIEW
OF ITS
ADOPTION AND
ADAPTATION
FROM
FERROUS TO NON-FERROUS PYROMETALLURGY
DEBOTTLENECKING AND OPTIMISATION OF COPPER
SMELTERS LEVERAGING SIMULATION Pyrometallurgy PY01
COMING OF AGE - 21 YEARS COMMERCIAL OPERATION OF COPPER
ISASMELT™ AT MOUNT ISA ISA JS Edwards Principal Metallurgist, Xstrata
Xstrata Technology, Level 10, 160 Ann St, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 4000
P Telford
General Manager, Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia, 4825
L Yunus
Senior Metallurgist, Mount Isa Mines, Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia, 4825 ABSTRACT Development of a new smelting technology, such as ISASMELT™, requires a
significant investment of time as well as resources and capital. In the case of the copper
ISASMELT™ process developed in Mount Isa the commissioning of the commercial
furnace in 1992 was the culmination of 14 years of bench, pilot and demonstration scale
testwork. The demonstration plant was operated from 1987 to 1992, initially at a feed rate
of 12 t/h of concentrate increasing to a maximum of 50 t/h during trials performed to reduce
the scale-up factor between demonstration plant and commercial plant.
The commercial
commercial scale copper ISASMELT™ furnace in Mount Isa was
commissioned in August 1992 with a capacity rated at 180 000 tonnes per year of copper
anode. In 2013 the copper ISASMELT™ has been operating for 21 years which is a
Coming of Age birthday in Australia. After two major smelter upgrades in 21 years the
original furnace is still in service and routinely treats in excess of 1 000 000 tonnes per
annum of copper containing feed and has a demonstrated campaign life, using uncooled
refractory, approaching 4 years. Pyrometallurgy PY02 OUTOTEC® SMELTING – INTEGRATED, INTEGRATED, SUSTAINABLE PLANT SOLUTIONS Fagerlund, K ABSTRACT Outotec has a very unique and exceptional combination of different types of
smelting process technologies together with the state-of-art products and continuous
development in our research laboratories and pilot- plants. World’s leading smelting
technologies are all now within the Outotec family: Outotec ® Flash Smelting, KennecottOutotec Flash Converting, Direct Blister Flash Smelting, Ausmelt TSL, Kaldo, Troff,
Electric Furnace, Fire-refining and Anode Casting. Outotec is not only able to evaluate the
available various complex raw materials but also to provide the best available solution for
the specific project. This paper will provide examples how to cross-utilize and apply knowhow, expertise from different technologies and products in an innovative way to provide
sustainable solutions for copper industry.
In addition, social responsibility and increasing governmental regulatory
requirements brings new demands to the copper producers, thus environmental approvals
for the new and existing smelting plants have become increasingly more difficult to
acquire.
This paper will provide an examples how to combine overall process knowledge
together with modern tools to enable reliable and effective data for decision making,
especially while discussing with different authorities, stake-holders and investors. Selection
of best-available-technologies with proven references can ensure the long operational lifetime of the smelters. Also, modernization and upgrade investments of the operational plants
can be better justified by taking into consideration not only the economical but also
environmental aspects. Examples will be provided where
where safety, campaign life, furnace
integrity all contribute into the plant life-cycle, where Outotec new cooling solutions can provide considerable improvements and can be flexibly applied in the operating plants and
also in wide variety of different applications. Pyrometallurgy PY03 WEAR PHENOMENA OF BASIC BRICK LININGS IN THE COPPER INDUSTRY D. Gregurek, C. Majcenovic RHI AG; TC Leoben; Magnesitstrasse 2; Leoben, A-8700, Austria
A. Spanring, M. Kirschen RHI AG; Wienerbergerstrasse 9, Vienna, A-1100, Austria ABSTRACT In the non ferrous metals industry particulary in the copper smelting furnaces the
refractory lining made of magnesia-chromite bricks is exposed to several stresses rather
complex in their interaction. These can be classified as chemical, thermal and mechanical
stresses occurring as a single wear factor or in combination.
The chemical factors include corrosion caused by acidic slag and gaseous SO 2 diffusion, redox effects and in particular cases hydration. In most of the non-ferrous
metallurgical processes the chemo-thermal load by Fe-silicatic slags of fayalithic type is a
common wear mechanism of the magnesia-chromite bricks. Nevertheless the extraordinary
massive SiO2-supply caused by changes in the processing and the uncontrolled addition of
silica sand results in a severe formation of forsterite respectively in a volume expansion due
to “forsterite bursting”. Increased
bursting”. Increased temperature level respectively changes in the temperature
during the furnace operation as well as the copper metal infiltration into the brick
microstructure are further wear factors on thermal side. The hot erosion is the dominant
mechanical factor. Therefore understanding of wear mechanisms through “post mortem
investigation” and praxis field trials are highly important to ensure product
investigation”
recommendation for industrial application. Pyrometallurgy PY04
CORROSION TESTING METHODS FOR NEWLY DEVELOPED REFRACTORY
PRODUCTS D. Gregurek, A. Ressler, V. Reiter, RHI AG, TC Leoben, Magnesitstrasse 2, Leoben, A-8700, Austria A. Franzkowiak, A. Spanring RHI AG, Wienerbergerstrasse 9, Vienna, A-1100, Austria ABSTRACT The processing routes in the base metals industry, especially copper smelting,
converting and fire-refining, have recently undergone significant changes in terms of slag
chemistry, temperatures, redox and more frequently deviating raw material compositions
(blended low-grade fractions) in the primary smelter feed. All these parameters
significantly influence the performance of already well-approved refractory linings.
Decreased brick lifetimes associated with process changes - also confirmed by the results of post mortem studies - were a clear signal for RHI
RH I AG to focus on the development of high
grade refractory bricks for chemically stressed areas. In order to determine the most
suitable refractory grades and to improve the performance in specific furnace areas, special
test methods were selected. The practical test facilities, including an induction furnace, rotary kiln and cup test,
at RHI’s Technology Center use use process slags, for example of a fayalithic and Ca-ferritic
type, and enable the best possible understanding of brick wear on a pilot scale. A complete
mineralogical investigation including thermo-chemical calculations with FactSage were performed to determine the highest influencing wear parameters. Optimized and engineered Pyrometallurgy lining solutions for the copper industry can be provided based on the acquired knowledge
from test results in combination with praxis trials. Pyrometallurgy PY05 ELECTROMAGNETIC LEVEL PROFILE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM TESTED
BY AGELLIS GROUP AB ON KENNECOTT COPPER FLASH SMELTERS IS
DESIGNED TO ENHANCE PROCESS CONTROL DECISION MAKING AND
IMPROVE OPERATOR SAFETY. N. Brogden, JP. Nilsson, P. Bloemer, A. Lyons AGELLIS Group AB, Tellusgatan 15, 224 57 Lund, Sweden
R. Kaur, David Krippner, KUC, Magna Plant, Salt lake City, Utah, USA ABSTRACT Reliable and accurate furnace level information for blister, matte and slag during
smelting processes is invaluable for decision making and process optimization, while
obtaining such information safely is a necessity.
Agellis Group AB had previously identified inherent problems with gauging levels
accurately in furnaces. We had successfully installed our EMLI ELP systems on
Submerged Arc and other electric furnaces in order to solve measurement problems.
In Flash Furnaces the problems appeared to be the same, with sounding bars operated from
the furnace roof area being used to take measurements. As a result operators can be at risk
and the results are often inaccurate. It was therefore decided to test the ELP system on a
flash smelter.
This paper shows how the Agellis EMLI-ELP system was successfully trialled at
Kennecott Utah Copper (KUC) on both their Flash Smelting (FSF) and Flash Converting
(FCF) furnaces. The results were used to compare the accuracy and reliability of
o f the Agellis syste...
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