Patents Assigned to Instituto De Innovacion En Mineria Y Metalurgia S.A.
  • Patent number: 7371342
    Abstract: Method intended to unblock enriched air blow or reaction gases nozzles in reactors or fusion converters for mining industry pyrometallurgy CHARACTERIZED by the injection of discrete air impacts with time intervals regulated to high pressure and rate through the enriched air blow or reaction gases nozzles; thus, the air impacts penetrate into the melting bath of such reactors or converters, producing the breaking of blocking accretions that dug the flow of such a enriched air or gas through the nozzle and forming, because the cooling provoked by the penetration of them, a directed accretion with material of the melting bath which is solidified by the cooling effect, allowing that the production of directed accretion be a natural lengthening of the tube of nozzle from the inner wall of these reactors or converters, and by this way to allow that the O2-enriched air blowing through the nozzle enters deeper in the melting bath, to a distance where breaking waves of this flow are generated far of the wall that has
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignees: Corporation Nacional Del Cobre De Chile, Instituto De Innovacion En Mineria Y Metalurgia S.A.
    Inventors: Luis Cerda, Alex M Moyano, Domingo Montoya, José Parraguez, Ricardo Amigo, Justo Luna