Matte Smelting Furnace
July 14, 2020
Matte is a semi-finished frit made of silica, limestone and other fluxes after smelting. The copper content varies with different melting furnace types, and the fluctuation range is generally 30%-45%.
There are blast furnace, reflector furnace and flash furnace as matte smelting furnace. After the 1970s, flash smelting to produce copper dominated, followed by reflector furnace, essa furnace, Silver method, Noranda reactor and so on.
The manufacture of matte from copper concentrate airtight blast furnace is widely used in many copper factories in China, especially in small and medium sized copper factories. Copper blast furnace by the furnace top, furnace body, the bed (also known as throat), hearth, tuyere device and other parts.