Customer
JSC Almalyk MMC, Almalyk, Republic of Uzbekistan
Commissioning
December 2016
Services
Basic and detail engineering, construction documents, programming, supply of equipment, on-site construction and installation works, installation supervision and commissioning, training of personnel.
Scope of supply
- Feed preparation and dosing system
- Smelting furnace as main part of ContiSmelt®System
- Matte mixer and slag mixer
- Systems for cleaning and cooling of process gases
- Aspiration system
- Water treatment and cooling system
- System for supply of technological and instrument air
- Main lifting equipment
- Electrical equipment and instrumentation
- Automated controll system
Technical data
- Sectional area at tuyere level: 24 m²
- Furnace width at tuyere level: 2.5 m
- Discharge of slag and matte: via siphons
- Furnace lining: Chrom-magnesite bricks
- Walls and vaults: water-cooled caissons
- Number of tuyeres: 28 pcs.
- Daily average specific melting rate at the level of blowing tuyeres: 65 t/m2
- Waste heat boiler (calibrated pipes) for cooling of process gases with a temperature of: 1,350 °C to 380 °C
- Mixer matte/slag: each 200 t
Customer benefits
- Production of 73,800 t blister copper/ year
- Ensuring of a continuous smelting process with a bath smelting technology
- Recovery of copper matte: till 97%
