Smelter technology lowering costs, energy consumption

摘要

Mining giant Xstrata's proprietary smelter technology, Premus, will be installed at its ongoing Lion ferrochrome complex Phase 2 expansion project, owing to its success at the company's Lion Phase 1 and Lydenberg ferrochrome smelters.The company claims that Premus reduces its overall ferrochrome production cost by about 6%, and consumes about a third less electricity than other available smelting technologies, at an average of between 2.2 MW/t and 2.4 MW/t.