Sustainable Mining and Metallurgy

Based on production practice, this paper expounded structural features of furnace profile, process technical indicators and process control of the continuous copper smelting practice using three furnaces in Yantai, China, and point out the difference between this process and the traditional copper smelting process. This process truly accomplishes continuous copper smelting, featuring more reasonable furnace profile and structure, optimized production indicators, lower one-off costs, higher degree of intelligence, greater safety and environmental protection.