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2018 - Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit & Exhibition
4-7 November 2018, Rio Othon Palace, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Seven Nobel Laureates have already confirmed their attendance: Prof. Dan Shechtman, Prof. Sir Fraser Stoddart, Prof. Andre Geim, Prof. Thomas Steitz, Prof. Ada Yonath, Prof. Kurt Wüthrich and Prof. Ferid Murad. More than 400 Abstracts Submitted from about 60 Countries.
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SYMPOSIA

    6th Intl. Symp. on Sustainable Non-ferrous Smelting and Hydro/Electrochemical Processing

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    SYMPOSIUM and ROUND TABLE TOPICS

    SYMPOSIUM TOPICS

    Symposium topics include but are not limited to:
    1. Principles:
      • Experimental techniques: existing and new developments
      • Reaction kinetics, thermodynamics, minor element behavior
      • Chemical and transport properties of slags, mattes, metals, fluxes, gases, etc.
      • Gas-Fluid-Solid Reactions
      • Thermo and Physicochemical Properties
      • Process modeling and simulation (computational fluid dynamic modeling, etc.)
      • Roasting, smelting, converting, refining, hydrometallurgical and electrochemical processes and equipment
      • Refractory materials, degradation, control and optimization
    2. Technologies:
      • High and Low Temperature Extraction and Processing
      • Flash/Bath Sulfide and Laterite Smelting
      • Hydrometallurgical and electrochemical extraction and refining
      • Direct producing of metals
      • Chemical and metallurgical process reactors
      • Furnace designs and refractory
      • Control operations and new designs
      • New, Improved and Existing Technologies
      • Alternative ways of producing metals from sulfide and laterite concentrates
      • Control and optimization
      • Recycling, waste treatment, soil remediation and biotechnologies
    3. Industrial Practice:
      • Plant and furnace operations
      • Process parameters in smelting, refining, hydrometallurgical and electrochemical furnaces
      • Electrical furnaces
      • Production of metals from sulfide or laterite concentrates
      • Feed preparation processes, equipment
      • Gas/dust handling and acid plants processes and equipment
      • Fugitive emissions and environmental issues and policies
      • New smelter and expansion/capital projects
      • Predicted future of smelting/refining/hydro/electrochemical extraction operations
      • Process control, optimization and automation
      • Sustainable Managing

    ROUND TABLE TOPICS

    Round Table topics include the symposium topics above as well as some specific topics described below: (Participants are free to add topics as per their interest)
    1. Lower grade of concentrates trend: How do smelters handle these?
    2. Arsenic case:
      • Trend of the Arsenic content in ores
      • How do smelters handle the challenge?
      • What technologies perform better?
    3. The very high-Arsenic bearing Copper ore challenge:
      • Traditional Pyro approaches
      • Mine -to- Metal Hydro approaches
      • What technologies perform better?
    4. Sustainability and environmental challenges
    5. Final slag issues, granulation methods, slag cleaning options
    6. Advanced control on smelting/converting
    7. Gas Handling
    8. Copper technologies outlook
    9. Supply Chain
    10. Other topics proposed by participants
    A final Round Table Flyer and Agenda with topics, chairs and participants will be prepared and distributed soon
    Download the Flyer png Pdf

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Zhi Wang
Dongying Fangyuan
China, [Bio]
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Takahiko Okura
Ehime U.
Japan