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MATERIALS ENGINEERING

SEMINAR

“Energy Modeling for the Pyrometallurgical Production of Copper”

By

Paul Mather

Purdue MSE Ph.D. Preliminary Exam

Advisor: Professor Matthew J. M. Krane

ABSTRACT

80% of the world’s copper is extracted pyrometallurgically. The three high temperature steps important to this process are smelting, converting, and fire-refining. These steps use much energy and are thermodynamically complex. Their literature has focused on modelling the process thermodynamics, kinetics, and furnace operation, with a goal to optimization. Publications linking these latter models to gain system-wide understanding are lacking. There are also no models which analyze entropy generation. As such, the opportunity exists for exploring total system behavior, including the furnace product quantity and quality, and energy, exergy, and feed material requirements, by the creation and linking of transient exergy models of them.

Date: Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Time: 11:30 A.M.

Place: HAMP 2107