Creating wealth from new resources - High temperature extraction of metals from complex copper ores and recycled materials

世界上大部分铜都是使用高温化学加工(冶炼)生产的。原生矿石和回收原料都含有有价值的元素，也含有潜在的有害杂质元素。为了开发和利用现有的和新的资源，并将对环境的影响降至最低，该行业已经确定需要新的基础科学数据来描述这些系统中杂质元素的化学行为。该项目的目标是利用这些数据开发强大的基于计算机的热力学模型，这些模型可以预测复杂工业过程的产品。这些复杂的工具将用于改善现有工业操作的性能，并协助开发新的工艺设计。

Most of the world’s copper is produced using high temperature chemical processing (smelting). Both primary ores and recycled raw materials contain valuable elements and also potentially harmful impurity elements. To unlock and utilise current and new resources, and also minimise the environmental impacts the industry has identified the need for new fundamental scientific data that describe the chemical behaviour of impurity elements in these systems. The project aims to then use the data to develop powerful computer-based thermodynamic models that can predict the products of complex industrial processes. These sophisticated tools are intended to then be used to improve the performance of existing industrial operations and assist in the development of new process designs.