A process for treating anode slimes originating from copper, lead or nickel electrorefining to recover the precious metals contained therein is disclosed. The process comprises the steps of charging the slimes into a tiltable and rotatable top blown rotary converter (TBRC), smelting the slimes in the TBRC while it is rotated on an axis inclined to the horizontal to form a slag phase and a ...
The TBRC is a high-speed, rotating vessel fired by an oxy-fuel lances. Both the lancing technique and the rotation of the vessel provide remarkable augmentation in mass transfer rates compared with reverberatory or rotary furnaces. TBRC's can be used for smelting and refining in the same vessel.
Originally applied to the refining of iron into steel, with most installations in the 1960s, the process is (2014) used primarily to refine non ferrous metals, typically copper. In that field, it is often named TBRC, or Top Blown Rotary Converter .
Metalcess provides high grade copper scrap directly producing hot-rolled electrical grade copper rod, and for low grade copper scrap providing TBRC smelting, copper electrorefining to produce LME-1 copper .
The MAERZ TBRC (Top Blown Rotary Converter) is a general purpose unit for the copper and precious metals production. A central feature of the Top Blown Rotary Converter (TBRC) is the constantly high melting and refining efficiency.
Copper, nickel, tin, lead and the precious metals contained in the raw materials are enriched in an alloy with a copper content of about 80 %. In a top blown rotary converter (TBRC) the copper content is further enriched to 95 % and tin and lead are separated into a slag.
the TBRC is its consistently high melting and refining efficiency. Typical input ma terials are copper scrap, WEEE scrap of different qualities, especially printed cir cuit boards, dust, slag, lead production al slime from copper electrolysis. Depend ing on the purpose, different water-cooled lances are used for melting, oxidation, re
At Vale we use them in the nickel refining process. Every few years, one of the TBRCs has to be removed from service so that the two riding rings - the parts that support and drive the shell - can be replaced. "On average a TBRC shell change takes seven days," said Brian e, senior engineer, maintenance, applied engineering, at Copper Cliff.
precious metal / copper smelting operations • 10+ years of experience in target industries such as: o Secondary copper smelters o Precious metal scrap recycling o Experience with furnace operations and maintenance (Ideally high temperature furnaces, e.g. plasma or electric arc furnaces) o Experience in copper shot operations a plus
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A copper converting process starting with white metal or a mixture of white metal and metallic copper in which oxidizing gas contacts the molten copper mass either at or near the top surface of the molten mass while the mass is sparged with an inert gas from at or near the bottom of the mass and sparging is continued after contact with the oxidizing gas ceases.
Smelting / refining. Complex raw materials do not follow the best way of recycling High technology treatment Loss of raw material for high tech multi material recycling missing environmental protection missing health and safety measures ... (TBRC) - Anode furnace plant - Copper tankhouse
The top-blown rotary converter (TBRC) is a general-purpose unit for copper and precious metals production. A central feature of the TBRC is the constantly high-melting and refining efficiency. For precious metals refining, input materials can include precious metal–containing ores and scrap alloys from other non-ferrous processes.
Head, V. A. Englesakis, B. C. Pearson, and D. H. Wilkinson, "Nickel Refining by the TBRC Smelting and Pressure Carbonyl Route," paper presented at the 105th AIME Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, 1976 H R. A. Daniele and L. H. Jaquay, "TBRC, a New Smelting Technique," paper presented at the 10 1st AIME Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 1972
The waste copper smelter dust (CSD) is a rich secondary resource for copper as shown by the chemical composition of the South African Palabora coppers smelter plant CSD that assayed 18.02, 13.36 ...
Several of the more recently built plants are using bath smelting with top-submerged lance Isasmelt/Ausmelt technology or top blown rotary converters (TBRC)/Kaldo or a combination of submerged lance and TBRC for smelting and refining Processing and recycling of copper is extensively described in a recent publication by Langner (Langner, 2011)
Copper Furnace Furnace Scrap MAERZ Direct-To-Wire® Technology comprises the following production steps: Charging and melting of copper scrap with a minimum copper content of 92%. Refining (oxidation – deslagging – reduction) of molten copper to FRHC (Fire Refined High Conductivity) copper .
All the copper anodes from Noranda's Horne and Gasp smelters are sent to CCR for refining. When Martin Guilbert, superintendent of engineering and central maintenance, showed CMJ around the refinery in mid-April, the plant was expecting its first shipment of anodes from the Altonorte smelter for testing.
Plants for copper winning from secondary raw material in their conventional structure are operating with the aggregates blast furnace, converter, refining furnace, and refining electrolysis. Between the single operation steps there are necessarily considerable material reverse runnings which cause a loss of metal and additional energy.
Mettop GmbH, founded in 2005, is an independent Austrian engineering company, specialised in design, optimisation, and engineering of technologies for metallurgical processes. It is active in the field of pyro- as well as hydrometallurgy of non-ferrous metals and recently also started with innovative cooling systems for the iron and steel industry.
TBRC − top blown rotary converterThe top blown rotary converter is a highly efficient multi-purpose melting andrefining unit for copper and non-ferrous metallurgy.TBRC capacities are offered for a TBRC, Aurubis AGworking volume of up to 25 m³Our top blown rotary converter (TBRC) is a Main featuresgeneral purpose unit for copper and non ...
Perspppppectives on European Copper Smelting and Refining International Copper Study GroupInternational Copper Study Group Lisbon, 26th April. Agenda 1. Introduction Aurubis 2. ... E-scrap TBRC Anode furnace Copper plant tankhouse sampling Rainwater retention Bleed treatment Cthd t Administration Cathode storage 7 Kupferstrasse
No. 1 copper scrap has a minimum of 99% copper and is often just remelted. No. 2 copper consists of unalloyed scrap, with a copper content of at least 94% with a nominal content of 96% Cu. Light copper scrap contains between 88% and 92% copper. These types of copper scrap usually have to be refined to obtain the quality required.
The Bottom-blown Oxygen Converter or BBOC is a smelting furnace developed by the staff at Britannia Refined Metals Limited ("BRM"), a British subsidiary of MIM Holdings Limited (which is now part of the Glencore group of companies). The furnace is currently marketed by Glencore Technology. It is a sealed, flat-bottomed furnace mounted on a tilting frame that is used in the recovery of ...