| 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 |
PGM-Ni-Cu Tapping: An Updated Industry Survey |
| Author(s) |
Isabelle Nolet, Lucy Rodd, Tyler Futterer, Spencer Straub, Jehane Du Toit, Wesley Taylor |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Isabelle Nolet |
| Abstract Scope |
An industry survey of PGM-Ni matte tapping practices was published in 2014 with the aim of providing high-level information on matte taphole design, operation and maintenance practices at different smelting operations. Since then, various innovation trends have been developing within the industry, with regards to safety and automation, environmental considerations and design and monitoring technological advances aiming at enhancing taphole campaign life, minimizing tapping risks, and generally bringing the industry towards safer tapping.
Hatch is proposing an updated industry survey, this time including PGM-Ni-Cu producers, with an extended view into those industry developments with specific objectives to encourage cross-pollination across industries and organizations, and provide a useful reference documenting best practices in matte and metal tapping operations in the base metals industry. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Pyrometallurgy, |