Industrial flowsheeting and thermo-economic assessment


Industrial flowsheeting and thermo-economic assessment

Reuter, M. A.; Llamasa, A. A.

Session 2 was organised by the SOCRATES project. SOCRATES studies the development of near-zero waste processes for the recycling of low-grade metal containing industrial waste streams, such as bottom ashes, copper tailings and slags and sludges from the non-ferrous industry, commonly deposited in industrial landfills and tailing ponds. Markus Reuter and Alejandro Abadias (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany) illustrated how novel near-zero waste flowsheets for the treatment of these residues are assessed within the SOCRATES project. Focus of the session was on the primary copper production flowsheet (from rock to metal), in which two scenarios were compared, being production of copper without treatment of wastes and with additional metal recovery from wastes (slags and drosses). The analysis was performed through composing a mass and energy balance of the flowsheet and performing an exergy analysis and life cycle assessment.

Keywords: near-zero waste; recycling; SOCRATES

  • Lecture (others)
    Summer school 2018: “To mine or not to mine”, 10.-12.09.2018, Leuven, Belgien

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