Design Manual for the Smelting of Heavy Non-ferrous Metals: Copper-Nickel Volume

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Publish Date: 1996-10-01
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Introduction
The "Heavy Non-ferrous Metal Smelting Design Handbook" is a comprehensive reference book that summarizes China's decades of experience in the design, construction, and production of heavy non-ferrous metal smelting. The book is divided into four volumes and twelve sections, organized as follows:
- Copper-Nickel (including cobalt recovery) Volume
- Lead-Zinc-Bismuth Volume
- Tin-Stibium-Hg Precious Metals Volume
- Smelting Flue Gas Collection and Common Engineering Data Volume
Each section details the extraction processes and technologies for various heavy metals and their associated elements. The content is structured around raw materials, selection of technical operating conditions, products, technical economic indicators, main equipment selection, reference configurations, and necessary metallurgical calculations. It compiles a wealth of technical data and case studies for readers to refer to and adopt.
In the copper, lead, and zinc sections, besides traditional processes, the copper smelting section includes China's own flash smelting furnace for copper and modern large-scale copper electrowinning technology. The lead smelting section incorporates the oxygen bottom-blown process and pyrometallurgical refining techniques. The zinc smelting section covers large vertical retorts, blast furnace zinc smelting, and hydromagnesite technology.
The nickel smelting section focuses on large electric furnaces and modern flash smelting furnaces for nickel, while also compiling China's independently researched and designed technologies for ammonia leaching and hydrogen reduction of nickel powder from nickel oxide ores. The tin smelting section includes reverberatory furnace melting, electric furnace melting, pyrometallurgical and electrolytic refining, flue gas volatilization, and chlorination volatilization techniques.
The antimony smelting section primarily covers blast furnace volatilization smelting, reverberatory furnace reduction smelting, and refining, with additional inclusion of shaft furnace technology and some antimony product production techniques. The mercury smelting section includes electric heating rotary distillation furnaces, fluidized bed roasting, traditional blast furnace mercury smelting, crude mercury refining, and high-purity mercury purification techniques.
The precious metals smelting section covers conventional cyanidation, carbon-in-leach (CIL), resin-in-leach (RIL), heap leaching, gold extraction from gold-bearing sulfide ores, gold recovery from antimony concentrate, treatment of anode slime in heavy metal electrolysis, and platinum group metal extraction from nickel concentrate. It also provides data on recovering gold and silver from waste materials.
The flue gas collection section details the properties of flue gases from various smelting furnaces, collection processes, and equipment, systematically summarizing China's flue gas collection facilities for heavy non-ferrous metal smelting. The general engineering section primarily includes plant-wide common engineering such as coal preparation, workshop oil supply facilities, waste heat utilization, high-pressure blower rooms, air compressor stations, and plant analysis laboratories.
The common data section compiles physical and chemical data, codes, and standards commonly used in heavy non-ferrous metal smelting process design calculations. Additionally, the handbook includes environmental protection technologies closely related to process design, such as cyanide wastewater treatment, mercury toxicity prevention, and noise protection.