Norddeutsche Affinerie

Anton Schummer

Gerhard Berndt

Uwe-Jens Hansen

Jens U Hansen

Michael Kopke

Gerhard Kapell

In the processing of sulfur-containing metallurgical intermediates, sulfide ores or ore concentrates at a flame temperature of at least 1500.degree. C. in which sulfur dioxide and a melt are formed, acid sludge from the acid treatment of petroleum and mineral oils is substituted for at least a portion of the fuel. The acid sludge contains at most 85% by weight of inorganic components and is preferably introduced through a lance together with the combustion-sustaining gas and any additional fuel, usually in the form of oil.

Method of treating sulfur-containing metallurgical materials

A furnace for the melting and refining of raw copper and/or blister copper comprises a shaft furnace having a lock-chamber feeder for the material at the top of the shaft furnace and an opening into a hearth furnace in which the copper is refined. The shaft furnace and the hearth furnace are constructed unitarily with one another with the shaft furnace surmounting the hearth furnace in such manner that, when the apparatus has been charged, a pile of copper is formed which is supported on the bottom of the hearth furnace and slopes toward a portion of the length of the hearth furnace.

Growing community of inventors

Hamburg, Germany

Anton Schummer