SYMPOSIUM
and ROUND TABLE TOPICS
SYMPOSIUM TOPICS
Symposium topics include but are not limited to:
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- Lower grade of concentrates trend: How do smelters handle these?
- Arsenic case:
- Trend of the Arsenic content in ores
- How do smelters handle the challenge?
- What technologies perform better?
- The very high-Arsenic bearing Copper ore challenge:
- Traditional Pyro approaches
- Mine -to- Metal Hydro approaches
- What technologies perform better?
- Sustainability and environmental challenges
- Final slag issues, granulation methods, slag cleaning options
- Advanced control on smelting/converting
- Gas Handling
- Copper technologies outlook
- Supply Chain
- Other topics proposed by participants
