Copper Overview: From the Ore to the Applications – A Case Study of the Application of Concentrated Solar Energy to the Treatment of Copper Metallurgy Slags

فصل «Copper Overview: From the Ore to the Applications – A Case Study of the Application of Concentrated Solar Energy…» از کتاب «Copper - From the Mineral to the Final Application» موضوع را در حوزه «متالورژی مس» بررسی می‌کند. محتوا مبانی علمی، روش‌های فنی و پیامدهای عملی موضوع را به‌صورت منسجم توضیح می‌دهد. برای انتخاب فرایند، طراحی واحد، تحلیل بهره‌برداری و رفع عیب در استخراج و پالایش مس مفید است.

This chapter intends to be a summary of the copper metallurgy: from the historical aspects and mineral deposits or statistics to the different technologies used to produce metallic copper together with the distinct applications (of copper and copper alloys). Therefore, this document concludes with a research work carried out with the aim of treating copper slags with concentrated solar energy to recover valuable elements from these slags, as iron and copper. Results from this investigation suggest that solar energy could have an enormous potential in the copper metallurgy.