Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP150100758

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP150100758

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Enhancing Direct Cu Recovery through Increased Gas Processing Understanding. This project aims to investigate mechanisms of copper loss during smelting and find new ways to reduce the loss. Smelting, which produces copper matte product and slag tailings, is an important step of the copper-making process from copper sulphides. The loss of copper to slag can be as high as 12 per cent. The project aims to create new knowledge about copper loss by matte droplets floated with gas bubbles generated by chemical reactions to the slag phase. The outcomes are intended to enable copper smelters to maximise direct copper recovery, reduce copper production costs and increase the productivity of the smelting process.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 18-02-2016

End Date: 17-02-2019

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $380,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Mineral Processing/Beneficiation | Resources Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy | Pyrometallurgy |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Mining and Extraction of Copper Ores | Basic Copper Products

Other Keywords

Basic Copper Products | Mineral Processing/Beneficiation | Mining and Extraction of Copper Ores | Pyrometallurgy | Resources Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy

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