Tankhouse Material Handling at Heding Copper 620,000 tpa Copper Electrorefinery
摘要
Heding CopperCopper (Zhejiang Jiangtong Fuye Heding CopperCopper Co., Ltd.) operates modern copper electrorefineryCopper electrorefinery in Fuyang province, China. The copperCopper electrorefinery started operationOperation in 2014, which was followed by two expansions in 2017 and 2022. Today the designDesign capacity of the electrorefinery is 620.000 tpa. Starting point of the designDesign has been that electrode harvesting must be completed in one working shift. This set high requirements for tankhouse material handlingTankhouse material handling system in terms of performancePerformance and reliabilityReliability. Inner lug anodeAnode designDesign is applied to ensure safe and fast simultaneous lifting of electrodes. Tankhouse material handlingTankhouse material handling is based modern high-capacity machines, which provides continuous throughputThroughput with minimum intervention by the operators. Highly integrated solution enables uninterrupted and balanced material flow in the tankhouseTankhouse, where more than 10 machines operate simultaneously. Experiences from TACO (“envelope”) cathodesCathode have shown that high strippingStripping capacity reaching over 600 cathodesCathode/h can be maintained. This paper describes the basic designDesign, working methods and tankhouse material handlingTankhouse material handling technologyTechnology enabling high production efficiencyEfficiency, which have been demonstrated over 10 years in Heding CopperCopper.