Abstract
Most copper production processes starting from sulphidic raw materials comprise two separate steps: matte smelting and converting. Copper mattes produced in a so-called primary smelting furnace are converted to blister copper in the Peirce-Smith converter which has been the standard method in the copper industry for over 75 years. Although smelting and converting are carried out in separate reactors, the processes are combined resulting in costly investments in molten matte with transfer equipment (ladles, cranes etc.) and each other converter aisles.
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Hanniala, P., Mäkinen, T., Kytö, M. (1991). Flash technology for converting. In: EMC ’91: Non-Ferrous Metallurgy—Present and Future. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3684-6_20
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