Solar thermal extraction of copper from sulfides

Yazawa International Symposium: Metallurgical and Materials Processing: Principles and Techologies; Materials Processing Fundamentals and New Technologies

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 603-612

  Winkel, Lenny ^a   Guesdon, Christine ^a   Sturzenegger, Marcel ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DECOMPOSITION; EVAPORATION; EXTRACTION; IMPURITIES; REACTION KINETICS; SLAGS; SMELTING; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM CALCULATIONS; OXIDIC SLAG; SOLAR THERMAL EXTRACTION; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC MEASUREMENT;

COPPER;

EID: 0141682783     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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