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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

12:30: [Non-ferrousMonAM04] Plenary
Optimization and Control of Hoboken Converter Operations With FLOGEN CONTOP Control Expert System
Lucas C. Vieira¹ ; Marcella F. Guzzo¹ ; Mauricio Bittencourt Marques² ; Marcos Henrique Carlos De Souza³ ; Redouane Merdjani⁴ ; Florian Kongoli⁵ ; ¹Paranapanema, Dias d'Avila, Brazil; ²Paranapanema S.A., Brazil, Dias d'Avila, Brazil; ³FLOGEN TECHNOLOGIES INC., Sao Paulo, Brazil; ⁴FLOGEN TECHNOLOGIES INC., Mont-Royal, Canada; ⁵Flogen Technologies Inc., Mont-Royal, Canada;
Paper Id: 360 [Abstract]

FLOGEN CONTOP offline and online control expert system was commissioned in Paranapanema smelter in Dias D'Avila to compare different scenarios and support for the optimization of the Hoboken Converters operation. The software results indicate the possibility to decrease the amount of silica used as a flux, minimize the slag and copper blowing time, maximize the use of reverts, minimize slag volume, and decrease copper losses in the slag. The main process parameters (such as bath temperature, Sulphur content in Blister and Copper in the slag) is calculated during the operation, providing a clearer overview of the process and supporting to determine the end of blowing based on technical evaluation. This presentation will describe some of these achievements.