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SESSION: Non-ferrousMonAM-R1	Barrios International Symposium on Sustainable Non-ferrous Smelting and Hydro/Electrochemical Processing (5th Intl. Symp. on Sustainable Non-ferrous Smelting and Hydro/Electrochemical Processing)
Mon Oct, 23 2017	Room: Condesa II
Session Chairs: Guillermo Rios; Thomas Gonzales; Session Monitor: TBA

12:00: [Non-ferrousMonAM03] Plenary
Comparison of Smelting Technologies for the 21st Century
Thomas Gonzales¹ ; Ian Candy² ; John Bryant¹ ; ¹Hatch Associates, Scottsdale, United States; ²Hatch Associates, Mississauga, Canada;
Paper Id: 269 [Abstract]

The Copper Smelting Industry has transitioned into the new millennium compliant with environmental regulations, new smelter installations, and brown field expansions. The industry faces new challenges to achieve economies of scale for maximizing copper throughput as copper in concentrate grades have decreased while contained impurities have increased. This paper compares Double Flash, TSL, Mitsubishi, and Bottom Blown smelting technology flexibility to process current grades of concentrate in the custom market.