TY - GEN
T1 - Effect of oxygen enrichment on the Teniente converter productivity at the Ilo Smelter, Perú
AU - Bengoa, Jose
AU - Palacios, Jose
AU - Sanchez, Mario
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - Low metal prices and environmental restrictions are always a challenge for copper smelters operation and its productivity. Thus, in order to reduce production costs and control gas emissions, improvements of the Teniente Converter (CT) operation were made at Ilo Smelter Plant of Southern Peru Copper Co., Ilo, Peru, and the main objective was to increase its capacity for smelting copper concentrates without affecting normal operation. The present work corresponds to a recent study conducted during the normal industrial operation of the Teniente Converter in this plant and, it shows the effect of increasing air oxygen enrichment from 28 to 34% on its productivity. The results show an increasing of concentrate smelting rate from 800 to 1370 tpd and hence a notorious improving in copper production, and practically no effect on the refractory consumption. The increment of the concentrate throughput, increases also the SO2 concentration and the sulfuric acid production, showing the effort done by this operation in order to accomplish the environmental Peruvian regulation.
AB - Low metal prices and environmental restrictions are always a challenge for copper smelters operation and its productivity. Thus, in order to reduce production costs and control gas emissions, improvements of the Teniente Converter (CT) operation were made at Ilo Smelter Plant of Southern Peru Copper Co., Ilo, Peru, and the main objective was to increase its capacity for smelting copper concentrates without affecting normal operation. The present work corresponds to a recent study conducted during the normal industrial operation of the Teniente Converter in this plant and, it shows the effect of increasing air oxygen enrichment from 28 to 34% on its productivity. The results show an increasing of concentrate smelting rate from 800 to 1370 tpd and hence a notorious improving in copper production, and practically no effect on the refractory consumption. The increment of the concentrate throughput, increases also the SO2 concentration and the sulfuric acid production, showing the effort done by this operation in order to accomplish the environmental Peruvian regulation.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/0141682649
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0141682649
SN - 0873395476
T3 - Yazawa International Symposium: Metallurgical and Materials Processing: Principles and Techologies; High-Temperature Metal Production
SP - 351
EP - 358
BT - Yazawa International Symposium
A2 - Kongoli, F.
A2 - Itagaki, K.
A2 - Yamauchi, C.
A2 - Sohn, H.Y.
A2 - Kongoli, F.
A2 - Itagaki, K.
A2 - Yamauchi, C.
A2 - Sohn, H.Y.
T2 - Yazawa International Symposium: Metallurgical and Materials Processing: Principles and Technologies; High-Temperature Metal Production
Y2 - 2 March 2003 through 6 March 2003
ER -