Experiment and numerical simulation of two-phase flow in oxygen enriched side-blown furnace

Y Liu, T Yang, C Zhuo, Z Zhu, L Zhang… - … of Nonferrous Metals …, 2020 - Elsevier
Taking an oxygen enriched side-blown furnace as the prototype, a hydraulic model was
established according to the similarity principle. The influence of three factors on the gas …

Matte converting in copper smelting

P Taskinen, G Akdogan, I Kojo… - Mineral Processing …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Copper matte converting is the key step to ensure high primary copper recovery in the
smelting chain. Its development and the fundamental research carried out over the past …

Gas-liquid mass transfer and flow phenomena in a peirce-smith converter: a numerical model study

H Zhao, X Zhao, L Mu, L Zhang, L Yang - International Journal of Minerals …, 2019 - Springer
A numerical model was established to simulate the flow field in a Peirce-Smith converter
bath, which is extensively adopted in copper making. The mean phase and velocity …

CFD modeling of gas− liquid flow phenomenon in lead smelting oxygen-enriched side-blown furnace

Z ZHU, Z Ping, X WAN, C Zhuo, L ZHANG… - … of Nonferrous Metals …, 2024 - Elsevier
A validated numerical model was established to simulate gas− liquid flow behaviors in the
oxygen-enriched side-blown bath furnace. This model included the slip velocity between …

Gas–liquid mass transfer and flow phenomena in the Peirce–Smith converter: a water model study

X Zhao, H Zhao, L Zhang, L Yang - International Journal of Minerals …, 2018 - Springer
A water model with a geometric similarity ratio of 1: 5 was developed to investigate the gas-
liquid mass transfer and flow characteristics in a Peirce–Smith converter. A gas mixture of …

Experimental Study on Bubble Distribution and Splashing in a Peirce–Smith Copper Converter

H Zhao, J Wang, F Liu, HY Sohn - Metallurgical and Materials Transactions …, 2021 - Springer
More than 80 pct of copper matte in the world is refined by a Peirce–Smith converter (PSC),
but there still exist a number of problems restricting the productivity of PSC. A novel view for …

[PDF][PDF] Toward computational models of metallurgical converting processes

QG Reynolds, MW Erwee, SP Tsebe - pyrometallurgy.co.za
In many flowsheets used for high-temperature metallurgical processing, alloy converting is
required as a secondary treatment stage in order to refine products from primary smelting …