A Water Model Study on Mixing Behavior of the Two-Layered Bath in Bottom Blown Copper Smelting Furnace

Lang SHUI; Zhixiang CUI; Xiaodong MA; Xu JIANG; Mao CHEN; Yong XIANG; Baojun ZHAO

doi:10.1007/s11837-018-2879-z

A Water Model Study on Mixing Behavior of the Two-Layered Bath in Bottom Blown Copper Smelting Furnace

Lang SHUI^*, Zhixiang CUI, Xiaodong MA, Xu JIANG, Mao CHEN, Yong XIANG, Baojun ZHAO

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Abstract

The bottom-blown copper smelting furnace is a novel copper smelter developed in recent years. Many advantages of this furnace have been found, related to bath mixing behavior under its specific gas injection scheme. This study aims to use an oil–water double-phased laboratory-scale model to investigate the impact of industry-adjustable variables on bath mixing time, including lower layer thickness, gas flow rate, upper layer thickness and upper layer viscosity. Based on experimental results, an overall empirical relationship of mixing time in terms of these variables has been correlated, which provides the methodology for industry to optimize mass transfer in the furnace.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2065-2070
Number of pages	6
Journal	JOM
Volume	70
Issue number	10
Early online date	2 May 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-018-2879-z
Publication status	Published - Oct 2018
Externally published	Yes

Bibliographical note

The authors would like to thank Dongying Fangyuan Nonferrous Metals Co. Ltd., China, and The University of Queensland, Australia, for providing financial support for this study through the ‘‘Fangyuan Fellowship’’.

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