Sustainable copper metallurgy and recycling – saving energy and resources

该项目旨在开发新的，强大的和复杂的，基于计算机的模型，可以可靠地预测复杂的高温金属生产过程中的化学反应的结果。该项目预计将使用这些最初应用于铜冶炼系统的模型，以改善其他有价值金属的回收利用。这些模型应该能够应用于冶金工业中使用的各种技术，因为世界上大多数金属都是通过这些火法冶金工艺生产的。这将带来显著的好处，如生产率和工艺效率的大幅提高，同时节省能源和改善宝贵金属资源的使用。

This project aims to develop new, powerful and sophisticated, computer-based models that can reliably predict the results of chemical reactions in complex, high temperature metal production processes. This project expects to use these models, initially applied to copper smelting systems, to enable the improved recycling of other valuable metals. These models should be able to be applied to a wide range of technologies used in the metallurgical industry as most of the world’s metals are produced by these pyrometallurgical processes. This should provide significant benefits such as substantial improvements in productivity and process efficiencies, whilst at the same time delivering energy savings and improved use of valuable metal resources.