Modelling of an ilmenite-smelting DC arc furnace process

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 3 SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages 262-279

  Zietsman, Johan H ^a,b   Pistorius, P Chris ^b  

^a Ex Mente   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Modelling; Pyrometallurgy; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ILMENITE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REFRACTORY MATERIALS; SIMULATION; SMELTING; SOLIDIFICATION;

MODELING; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; SIMULATION-TYPE MODELS; SLAG COMPOSITION;

PYROMETALLURGY;

EID: 31744449982     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2005.06.016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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