# US 8,771,396 B2 · Method for producing blister copper directly from copper concentrate

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- Number: US 8,771,396 B2
- Document ID: US8771396B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 13/676,853
- Filed: 2012-11-14
- Published: 2013-10-17
- Granted: 2014-07-08
- Earliest claimed: 2012-04-16
- Assignees: Xiangguang Copper Co., Ltd.
- Applicants: Xiangguang Copper Co., Ltd.
- Inventors: Songlin Zhou; Weidong Liu; Zheling Ge
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US8771396B2

## CPC

- C22B 4/04: Heavy metals {(C22B4/005 takes precedence)}
- C22B 7/04: Working-up slag
- C22B 15/0026: {Pyrometallurgy}
- C22B 15/0039: {in electric furnaces}
- C22B 15/0047: {flash smelting or converting}
- C22B 15/005: {in a succession of furnaces}
- C22B 15/0054: {Slag, slime, speiss, or dross treating}
- Y02P 10/20: Recycling
- C22B: PRODUCTION AND REFINING OF METALS (electrolytic C25); PRETREATMENT OF RAW MATERIALS
- Y02P: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS

## Abstract

A method for producing blister copper directly from copper concentrate is provided, comprising: a) adding copper concentrate, copper matte, slagging material, oxygen enriched air, endothermic material to an upper segment of the reaction furnace; b) adding reducing agent to the lower segment space of the reaction furnace; c) directing the produced hot coke and liquid slag into an electric furnace, and adding copper concentrate into the electric furnace to generate an electric furnace slag and copper matte; d) the copper matte being granulated and finely ground, then re-fed into the reaction furnace.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method for producing blister copper directly from copper concentrate, characterized in that it comprises the following steps:
a) feeding copper concentrate, copper matte, slagging material, oxygen enriched air, and endothermic material together into a reaction furnace at an upper segment of the reaction furnace;
b) feeding reducing agent into the reaction furnace at the lower segment of the reaction furnace, wherein furnace gas, a hot coke layer in solid state, a slag layer in liquid state, and a blister copper layer in liquid state are formed in a molten bath at the bottom of the reaction furnace;
c) directing the hot coke and the slag in liquid state into an electric furnace while feeding sulfidizing agent into the electric furnace, so as to produce an electric furnace slag and copper matte in the electric furnace;
d) granulating the copper matte and re-feeding it into the reaction furnace at the upper segment of the reaction furnace,
wherein the sulfidizing agent in step c) is sulfide copper concentrate with a moisture content of 4% by weight to 10% by weight, the mass ratio of said sulfide copper concentrate to said slag in liquid state is 4˜6:1.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method according to claim 1, characterized in that mass ratio of the copper concentrate to the copper matte, slagging material and endothermic material added in step a) is in the range from 7˜9:1 to 2:1, amount of oxygen-enriched air is 300 Nm3/t˜700 Nm3/t with respect to the copper concentrate and the copper matte, and concentration in volume of oxygen in the oxygen-enriched air is ≧45%.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1, 2)

The method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the reaction furnace is a space suspension reaction furnace.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1, 2)

The method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the endothermic material is smoke dust collected from furnace gas discharged from the reaction furnace.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1, 2)

The method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the reducing agent in the step b) is granular coke with a particle size of 2 mm˜25 mm.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1, 2)

The method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the blister copper obtained from the step b) is directed into an anode refining furnace to undergo a refining process.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1, 2)

The method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the electric furnace slag in the step c) is used as other industrial raw material after granulation.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1, 2)

The method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that oxygen-enriched air is directed into an uptake shaft of the reaction furnace to burn CO produced in said reaction furnace.