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The tilting rotary copper refining furnace is a key piece of equipment in modern copper refining, offering significant advantages over traditional fixed-hearth refining furnaces in terms of smelting efficiency and operational flexibility.

1. Improved Smelting Efficiency and Quality: The furnace body can rotate 360°, ensuring thorough and uniform mixing of molten copper and additives, enhancing heat and mass transfer. This results in a more even temperature distribution, accelerated chemical reactions, more thorough impurity removal, precise composition control, shortened refining cycles, increased production capacity, and stable product quality.
2. Increased Metal Recovery and Reduced Labor Intensity: The tilting mechanism allows for mechanized and precise control of copper and slag discharge. Smooth copper discharge reduces splashing and oxidation, ensuring almost complete emptying of the molten copper and increasing direct recovery rates; slag discharge facilitates slag-copper separation, reducing cleaning difficulty and labor intensity, and minimizing safety hazards.
3. Excellent Sealing and Environmental Benefits: The dynamic sealing structure ensures a tight seal between the furnace mouth and the fume hood during rotation and tilting, allowing for efficient collection and processing of flue gas. While fixed-hearth furnaces are prone to "smoke leakage" during operation due to the open furnace door, the rotary furnace boasts extremely high flue gas collection efficiency, reducing harmful gas and dust emissions, and offering significant environmental advantages.
4. Flexible and Adaptable Operation: The rotation and tilting functions can be flexibly adapted to different process stages, such as accelerating contact between molten copper and air during the oxidation stage, controlling the mixing speed of reducing agents during the reduction stage, and is also suitable for processing solid cold materials.
In summary, the tilting rotary copper refining furnace, with its movable design, strengthens, purifies, and simplifies the production process. Its comprehensive advantages in improving efficiency and recovery rates, reducing costs, and achieving clean production make it the mainstream choice for modern, large-scale copper refining plants.