| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2022 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Furnace Tapping 2022
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| Presentation Title |
Successful Development and Optimisation of Lead ISASMELT™ Furnace Slag Tapping System at Kazzinc Ltd. |
| Author(s) |
Benjamin Hogg, Mark Prince, Mark Letchford, Alistair Burrows, Timur Tokzhigitov, Turarbek Azekenov, Stanko Nikolic |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Stanko Nikolic |
| Abstract Scope |
The first application of the ISASMELT™ furnace targeted the treatment of MIM lead based feeds in a two furnace oxidation-reduction combination. The first furnace originally transferred molten slag to the second furnace via a water-cooled copper block tap-hole. The next installation of the primary lead ISASMELT™ furnace technology occurred in the 2000s, this time feeding molten slag to a casting machine for solidification. This design had a number of learnings that were incorporated into a recent primary lead ISASMELT™ furnace, built and commissioned in 2012 at the Kazzinc Ltd Metallurgical Complex in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan. This paper presents the patented tapping system developed by Glencore Technology as applied to the lead ISASMELT™ furnace at Kazzinc. It focuses on the development process of this simple and effective tapping system, the current application, and how it has been optimised during the past ten years of operational experience. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Pyrometallurgy, Extraction and Processing, Other |