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ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS OF SELECTED ENERGY CONSERVING MANUFACTURING PROCESS OPTIONS: VOLUME XIV. PRIMARY COPPER INDUSTRY REPORT

Citation:

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS OF SELECTED ENERGY CONSERVING MANUFACTURING PROCESS OPTIONS: VOLUME XIV. PRIMARY COPPER INDUSTRY REPORT. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/7-76/034n.

Description:

This study assesses the likelihood of new process technology and new practices being introduced by energy intensive industries and explores the environmental impacts of such changes. Volume 14 deals with the primary copper industry and examines six alternatives: (1) Outokumpu flash smelting, (2) Noranda process, (3) Mitsubishi process, (4) oxygen use in smelting, (5) metal recovery from slags (flotation or electric furnace), and (6) Arbiter process, all in terms of relative economics and environmental/energy consequences.

Record Details:

Record Type:DOCUMENT( REPORT )
Product Published Date:05/24/2002
Record Last Revised:04/16/2004
Record ID: 35835