QAL 3.8million tons/year worlds largest produces 7% of the worlds
alumina
220 million/tons year = 2ndin world for iron ore
production
Port Kembla steel blast furnaces in operation for 15
years
The Basic
Oxygen Steelmaking (BOS) plant uses molten iron from the Blast Furnaces, cold
scrap steel, and burnt fluxes (lime and dolomite) to produce steel.Molten iron, at around 1350°C, and cold
scrap are charged into the BOS Furnace. Fluxes are added and then oxygen is
blown into the Furnace for around 16 minutes. This raises the temperature of
the metal to around 1700°C and reduces the carbon content from around 4.5
percent to 0.05 percent, converting the iron to steel.
ISASMELT™
utilises a simple refractory lined furnace and operates with a single
submerged combustion lance to create a highly turbulent bath SO2 is captured
and turned into acid
Roasting step 1, Smelting step 2
MIM Townsville ISA Process - The use of permanent stainless
steel cathode plates eliminates
the use of starting sheets, thereby reducing the labour component above all
costs of refining operations