Editors: | Kongoli F, Kozlov P, Tsymbulov L, Fedorov A, Shumskiy V |
Publisher: | Flogen Star OUTREACH |
Publication Year: | 2015 |
Pages: | 310 pages |
ISBN: | 978-1-987820-28-7 |
ISSN: | 2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series) |
The creation of fundamentally new pyrometallurgical process (Vanyukov process) became the result of longstanding activity of Professor Andrey V. Vanyukov. The process is very prospective in heavy non-ferrous, noble and platinum metals' metallurgy, power-generating coal burning and recycling of factory and domestic wastes. The information about the stages of creation and development of Vanyukov process, its technological peculiarities and Vanyukov furnace design for processing of various raw material types have been shown. The basic advantages over another modern smelting processes have also been shown. For decades, industrial Vanyukov furnaces have been successfully used by the following largest copper-production enterprises: Norilsk Nikel MMC, Sredneuralsky Copper Smelter and Kazakhmys Corporation (Kazakhstan). Vanyukov furnace was industrially developed at Southern Urals Nickel Plant for the purpose of laterite ore matte smelting. Nowadays, designing of industrial Vanyukov furnace is carried out for Almalyk Mining-Metallurgical Complex (Uzbekistan), together with development of new ways of Vanyukov process application for processing of lead raw materials, laterite ores and copper-nickel concentrates.