Heat input




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Heat output:

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Heat balance in blister copper stage.

Materials balance

Input:

Output:

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Data

Heat of reaction of Cu₂S + O₂ = 2Cu + SO₂



Heat input

Sensible heat in Cu₂S = 4.5×10⁶ kcal

Heat reaction = 8.2×10⁶ kcal


Heat out put

Sensible heat = 7×10⁶ kcal

Sensible heat in blister Cu = 3.55×10⁶ kcal

Regferences:

1) Rosenquist : Principles of extractive metallurgy

2) Butts, Allison: Metallurgical Problems, McGraw Hill Book Company, 1943