Optimizing Copper Extraction: Integrated Pyrometallurgical Modelling with ChemApp for Python - Part I
Process modelling is a key approach for optimizing industrial operations, delivering tangible gains in cost reduction, process efficiency, and environmental performance. In copper extraction, pyrometallurgical routes consist of multiple interconnected unit operations that must be considered together to understand overall behavior. Using its stream functionality, ChemApp for Python provides rigorous thermochemical calculations that allow engineers to link these unit operations into an integrated copper process flowsheet. This post presents a step-by-step guide for metallurgists and engineers on building such Cu flowsheets and computing copper output and purity under defined operating conditions for each process step. During copper extraction, the two main performance targets are the total coppe