Preliminary communication

Vacuum refinning cooper blister to remove antimony

A. Smalcerz orcid.org/0000-0003-0957-1291 ; Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Materials Science, Katowice, Poland
L. Blacha ; Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Materials Science, Katowice, Poland

Abstract

A research on kinetics of antimony evaporation from molten copper blister was made in a vacuum induction melting (VIM) furnace at temperatures of 1 473 and 1 523 K, and operating pressures of 8 - 133 Pa. The evaporation rate of Sb was found to be first order with respect to your content in the melt. The overall mass transfer coefficient of antimony evaporation from cooper blister are from 1,82×10-5 ms-1 to 3,43×10-5 ms-1 at 1 473 K (8 Pa) - 1 523 K (133 Pa).

Keywords

vacuum refining; blister copper; antimony; evaporation of metals; induction vacuum furnace

Hrčak ID:

237040

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/237040

Publication date:

1.7.2020.

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