Recent Improvements at Hosokura Lead Smelter and Refinery
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Pretreatment
plant
Spent lead
battery
Grid & paste
Polypropylene
Blast furnace
Cokes
Flux
Lead residues
Bag house
Desulfurising
plant
Water granulated slag
Crude lead
kettle
Crude lead
Anode
Tank house
Electric lead
Lead alloy
Slime
By-product
plant
Antimony trioxide
Bismuth
Crude silver
Dross
Short rotary
furnace
Crude lead
Copper matte
to air
to damp
to copper smelter
to copper smelter
to sale
to sale
to sale
to sale
Fig. 1
Process flow of Hosokura smelter