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Two-Step Copper Smelting Process at Dongying Fangyuan

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8th International Symposium on High-Temperature Metallurgical Processing

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Two-step copper smelting process (hereinafter Fangyuan Process) has been recently developed and patented by Dongying Fangyuan Company. This is the first and only process of this kind to produce anode copper in the world. And it can be summarized as below. The raw materials including concentrates and flux are simply mixed without treatment and fed into Submerged Lance Smelting Furance (SLS ). High grade matte (>73% Cu) produced by SLS is sent to Submerged Lance Converting Refining Furnace (SLCR ) via matte conduit. Two SLCRs work in turn to maintain continuous operation. Anode copper from SLCR is sent to the casting wheel to get anode copper plates. The new technology started operation in October 2015 with a capacity to treat 1.5 Mt/a copper concentrate proved with various advantages. This paper will describe its development process at Dongying Fangyuan, with detailed discussion about the operation conditions and parameters.

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  1. Dongying Fangyuan Nonferrous Metals Co., Ltd, Dongying, Shandong, People’s Republic of China

    Zhi Wang, Zhixiang Cui, Chuanbing Wei & Haibin Wang

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  1. Michigan Technological University , Houghton, Michigan, USA

    Jiann-Yang Hwang

  2. Central South University , Changsha, Hunan, China

    Tao Jiang

  3. Proval Partners SA , Lausanne, Switzerland

    Mark William Kennedy

  4. Istanbul Technical University , Istanbul, Turkey

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  5. Dept of Materials Science and Eng, Carnegie Mellon Univ Dept of Materials Science and Eng, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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  6. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais , Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    Varadarajan Seshadri

  7. The University of Queensland , Brisbane, Australia

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  8. RHI AG , Leoben, Austria

    Dean Gregurek

  9. Atilim University , Ankara, Turkey

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Wang, Z., Cui, Z., Wei, C., Wang, H. (2017). Two-Step Copper Smelting Process at Dongying Fangyuan. In: Hwang, JY., et al. 8th International Symposium on High-Temperature Metallurgical Processing. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51340-9_62

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