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12th Intl. Symp. on Sustainable Non-ferrous Smelting & Hydro/Electrochemical Processing


Nonferrous


SYMPOSIUM and ROUND TABLE TOPICS
SYMPOSIUM TOPICS
Symposium topics include but are not limited to:
  1. Principles:
    • Experimental techniques: existing and new developments
    • Reaction kinetics, thermodynamics, minor element behavior
    • Chemical and transport properties of slags, mattes, metals, fluxes, gases, etc.
    • Gas-Fluid-Solid Reactions
    • Thermo and Physicochemical Properties
    • Process modeling and simulation (computational fluid dynamic modeling, etc.)
    • Roasting, smelting, converting, refining, hydrometallurgical and electrochemical processes and equipment
    • Refractory materials, degradation, control and optimization
  2. Technologies:
    • High and Low Temperature Extraction and Processing
    • Flash/Bath Sulfide and Laterite Smelting
    • Hydrometallurgical and electrochemical extraction and refining
    • Direct producing of metals
    • Chemical and metallurgical process reactors
    • Furnace designs and refractory
    • Control operations and new designs
    • New, Improved and Existing Technologies
    • Alternative ways of producing metals from sulfide and laterite concentrates
    • Control and optimization
    • Recycling, waste treatment, soil remediation and biotechnologies
  3. Industrial Practice:
    • Plant and furnace operations
    • Process parameters in smelting, refining, hydrometallurgical and electrochemical furnaces
    • Electrical furnaces
    • Production of metals from sulfide or laterite concentrates
    • Feed preparation processes, equipment
    • Gas/dust handling and acid plants processes and equipment
    • Fugitive emissions and environmental issues and policies
    • New smelter and expansion/capital projects
    • Predicted future of smelting/refining/hydro/electrochemical extraction operations
    • Process control, optimization and automation
    • Sustainable Managing
ROUND TABLE TOPICS
Round Table topics include the symposium topics above as well as some specific topics described below: (Participants are free to add topics as per their interest)
  1. Lower grade of concentrates trend: How do smelters handle these?
  2. Arsenic case:
    • Trend of the Arsenic content in ores
    • How do smelters handle the challenge?
    • What technologies perform better?
  3. The very high-Arsenic bearing Copper ore challenge:
    • Traditional Pyro approaches
    • Mine -to- Metal Hydro approaches
    • What technologies perform better?
  4. Sustainability and environmental challenges
  5. Final slag issues, granulation methods, slag cleaning options
  6. Advanced control on smelting/converting
  7. Gas Handling
  8. Copper technologies outlook
  9. Supply Chain
  10. Other topics proposed by participants

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CHAIRS

Juergen Antrekowitsch
Dr. Juergen Antrekowitsch
Professor
Chair of Nonferrous Metallurgy, U. of Leoben
Austria, [Bio]
Zhi Wang
Dr. Zhi Wang
Vice General Manager
Dongying Fangyuan
China, [Bio]