Redoubling platinum group metal smelting intensity-operational challenges and solutions
The 2003 redoubling in power to 68MW on the Polokwane Smelter furnace represented a significant intensification in platinum group metal (PGM) smelting. Combined with onerous 'green' PGM concentrate smelting requirements, this yielded conditions unusually corrosive to copper coolers and ref...
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| Format: | Conference Paper |
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2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/53406 |