Anode Furnace Burner

The anode furnace refining and casting process, as the final step of pyrometallurgical smelting, is responsible for further oxidizing and reducing the output from the previous converter stage—blister copper containing 98.5% Cu at a temperature of 1130°C—to remove excess impurities, producing anode copper with Cu > 99.3% at a copper temperature of 1200°C. After refining is completed, the anode plate temperature is rapidly reduced from 1100°C to near ambient temperature by forced cooling with cooling water, and the ambient-temperature anode plates are sent for electrolytic hydrometallurgical refining. Therefore, in the pyrometallurgical refining process, energy must first be supplemented, which requires a burner. The burner produced by our company for this furnace can burn oil, coal gas, and natural gas. It can operate in normal or oxygen-enriched combustion modes; oxygen-enriched combustion, in particular, can save more than 30% compared with normal combustion.