SYMPOSIUM and ROUND TABLE TOPICS

SYMPOSIUM TOPICS

1. Principles:
   • Experimental techniques: existing and new developments
   • Reaction kinetics, thermodynamics, minor element behavior
   • Chemical and transport properties of slags, mattes, metals, fluxes, gases, etc.
   • Gas-Fluid-Solid Reactions
   • Thermo and Physicochemical Properties
   • Process modeling and simulation (computational fluid dynamic modeling, etc.)
   • Roasting, smelting, converting, refining, hydrometallurgical and electrochemical processes and equipment
   • Refractory materials, degradation, control and optimization
2. Technologies:
   • High and Low Temperature Extraction and Processing
   • Flash/Bath Sulfide and Laterite Smelting
   • Hydrometallurgical and electrochemical extraction and refining
   • Direct producing of metals
   • Chemical and metallurgical process reactors
   • Furnace designs and refractory
   • Control operations and new designs
   • New, Improved and Existing Technologies
   • Alternative ways of producing metals from sulfide and laterite concentrates
   • Control and optimization
   • Recycling, waste treatment, soil remediation and biotechnologies
3. Industrial Practice:
   • Plant and furnace operations
   • Process parameters in smelting, refining, hydrometallurgical and electrochemical furnaces
   • Electrical furnaces
   • Production of metals from sulfide or laterite concentrates
   • Feed preparation processes, equipment
   • Gas/dust handling and acid plants processes and equipment
   • Fugitive emissions and environmental issues and policies
   • New smelter and expansion/capital projects
   • Predicted future of smelting/refining/hydro/electrochemical extraction operations
   • Process control, optimization and automation
   • Sustainable Managing

ROUND TABLE TOPICS

1. Lower grade of concentrates trend: How do smelters handle these?
2. Arsenic case:
   • Trend of the Arsenic content in ores
   • How do smelters handle the challenge?
   • What technologies perform better?
3. The very high-Arsenic bearing Copper ore challenge:
   • Traditional Pyro approaches
   • Mine -to- Metal Hydro approaches
   • What technologies perform better?
4. Sustainability and environmental challenges
5. Final slag issues, granulation methods, slag cleaning options
6. Advanced control on smelting/converting
7. Gas Handling
8. Copper technologies outlook
9. Supply Chain
10. Other topics proposed by participants