An overview of process options and behavioral aspects of the copper values recovered from the copper bleed stream of a copper smelter developed at the national metallurgical laboratory

Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 136-162

  Agrawal, Archana ^a   Bagchi, D ^a   Kumari, S ^a   Pandey, B D ^a  

^a NATIONAL METALLURGICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Copper powder; Crystallization; Electrolysis; Hydrogen reduction; Powder properties

Indexed keywords

ANNEALED POWDERS; APPARENT DENSITY; BLEED STREAM; COPPER ANODE; ELECTROLYTIC PROCESS; ELECTROWINNING; GREEN DENSITIES; HYDROGEN LOSS; HYDROGEN REDUCTION; HYDROGEN REDUCTION PROCESS; LARGE SCALE EXPERIMENTS; MIXED CRYSTALS; MODEL SOLUTION; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; POWDER PROPERTIES; POWDER RECOVERY; PURE COPPER; SALT-CONTAINING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE;

ANNEALING; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; COPPER; COPPER POWDER; COPPER POWDER METALLURGY; CRYSTALLIZATION; DENDRIMERS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROLYSIS; EVAPORATION; FLOW RATE; HYDROGEN; METALLURGY; NICKEL POWDER METALLURGY; POWDERS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SMELTING; VAPORS;

COPPER SMELTING;

EID: 67749131033     PISSN: 08827508     EISSN: 15477401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08827500802397243     Document Type: Article

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