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WhatsApp: +86 18221755073Return to Menu . PROCESS DESCRIPTION. The figure shown below schematically describes the Mitsubishi Process, illustrating its sequence of continuous and controlled smelting of copper concentrates, coal, and flux; the separation of copper matte and discard slag; the continuous conversion of copper matte to blister copper; and finally, the continuous delivery of blister …
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WhatsApp: +86 18221755073Figure 1: Overview of copper production Benefication process Figure 2: Overview of a typical beneficiation process at a concentrator ... Figure 3: Typical flow sheet for pyrometallurgical copper production from ore concentrates ... 80 000 t/a converter copper in Legnica, and 200 000 t/a in Glogow I Smelter [214]. 5.4.2. Reverberatory Furnace ...
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WhatsApp: +86 18221755073The smelting process can be divided into three stages, namely decomposition of high-valence sulphide, oxidation of sulphide, and matte smelting and slagging reaction (Fig. 1).The efficiency of matte smelting and matte-slag separation, as well as the extent of copper losses to slag are mainly affected by the oxidation/reduction potential, matte grade, smelting temperature, slag …
WhatsApp: +86 182217550731.4 Process Description 15 1.5 Site Analysis 16 1.6 Raw Material & Source 17 1.7 Utilities Requirements 17 ... Material Flow Sheet for Integrated Copper Smelter Plant 161 Annexure XI Water Balance for Integrated Copper Smelter Plant 162 List of Abbreviation 163 .
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WhatsApp: +86 18221755073Copper smelting basics In early stages of the technology development, several pilot-scale flash smelting furnaces of different feed rates, typically between 0.1 and 1 mt/h, were built for detailed process chemistry and fluid flow purposes [2, 10-13], see Fig. 1.
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WhatsApp: +86 18221755073A generic flow diagram of the copper smelting process is shown in Fig. 2. In this process, ... Dynamic modeling of copper flash smelting process at a smelter in China. Appl Math Model, 38 (7) (2014), pp. 2206-2213, 10.1016/j.apm.2013.10.035. View PDF View article View in Scopus Google Scholar.
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