| As
well as processing metallurgical by-products from
the zinc and lead production industries, Ausmelt Technology
also treats a range of other industrial and municipal
wastes. Wastes are rendered environmentally safe and
metal or other valuable elements, where present, are
recovered.
Ausmelt Technology has been
successfully applied to the treatment and recycling
of spent potlining (SPL), a hazardous waste generated
by the electrolytic aluminium smelting process at
Alcoa's
Portland Aluminium Smelter in Australia, where
12,000 tonnes a year of SPL is treated using the Ausmelt-Alcoa
SPL Process.
A waste treatment plant
utilising Ausmelt Technology to treat municipal waste
incinerator ash (MWIA), the MAPO
Project, has been installed in Seoul, South Korea.
This plant will process 10,000 tonnes a year of MWIA
and produce a zinc fume and environmentally benign
slag. |
