Modern Copper Smelting: being lectures delivered at Birmingham University, greatly extended and adapted and with and introduction on the history, uses and properties of copper.Levy, Donald M.
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Modern Copper Smelting: being lectures delivered at Birmingham University, greatly extended and adapted and with and introduction on the history, uses and properties of copper.
Levy, Donald M.
Copper -- Metallurgy
Turnbull (and W. Brown), 17.
Tuyeres, 122, 123, 141, 142, 158, 185, 188.
" for converters, 192, 193, 195, 197, 198, 215.
Tuyere holes in water-jackets, 137, 140.
" -jackets of blast furnaces, 138, 140.
" -pieces, 140.
" -zone, 171, 174–185.
Tyee Smelter, B.C., Hot blast, 144.
" " roasting at, 68.
Typical pyritic smelting charge-sheets, 206.
" reverberatory-furnace charge, 82.
U
Ulke, T., 229, 237, 243.
United States copper output, 15–17.
Uses of copper, 18.
" " alloys, 21.
Utah, copper mining, 8.
" " output, 17.
" costs of production, 14.
" smelting practice, 75.
Utilisation of heat in reverberatory work, 83, 87, 91.
V
Vail, R. H., 215.
Values in anode copper, 230.
" converter copper, 43, 215, 218.
" " slags, 211.
" copper ores, 46.
" electro-refining, 229–231, 233, 238.
Varieties of commercial copper, 39, 40.
Vats for electro-refining, 219, 227–230, 234, 237.
Vein deposits in Superior, 45.
Vertical converters, 195.
Virginia copper ores, 46.
Viscosity of slags, 148–150.
Volatile hydrocarbons in reverberatory smelting, 85, 86, 105.
Voltage for electro-refining, 227, 228, 232, 234, 238.
Vortex converter, 215, 216.
W
Walker, A. L., 34, 191, 224, 226.
Wallaroo sintering process, 58.
Walls of reverberatory furnaces, 99.
Wanjukoff, W., 132.
Washoe Smelter (see _Anaconda_).
Waste heat in reverberatory-furnace gases, 83, 87, 107, 144.
" Utilisation of, 83, 87, 107, 143.
Water and copper, 33.
" in blast roasting, 58.
" -cooling in roaster furnaces, 74–79.
" -jacketing of blast furnaces, 10, 113, 122–124,
134–139, 158, 185.
" -supply for jackets, 124, 137, 139, 140.
Watson, D., 34.
Webb, 34.
Welsh process, 9, 40, 214, 219, 222–224.
" smelting, 82.
Wethey roaster, 71.
Wet concentration of ores, 47, 50, 53–55, 61, 63.
" processes, 43.
White-Howell roaster, 73.
White-metal, 40, 205, 210, 212, 213, 215.
" stage, 209, 211–214.
White roaster, 73.
Width of blast furnaces, 125, 135, 184, 186.
" reverberatories, 89.
Wintle, F. H., 191.
Wire, Preparation of copper, 19, 238, 243.
" Strength of copper, 32.
" -bar copper, 40, 242.
Withdrawal of products from blast furnaces, 124, 130, 133,
135, 158–171.
" " reverberatories, 83, 86, 94.
Work, Effects of mechanical, 32.
Working of blast furnaces, 114, 146, 158, 178.
" converters, 178, 185, 186, 188.
" electro-refining plant, 227, 230, 236.
" large reverberatories, 84, 92, 97, 99.
" MacDougal roasters, 76–80.
" pyritic process, 178, 185, 186, 188.
Wraith, W., 243.
Wright, L. T., 132, 145, 191.
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