15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
DIAGNOSIS AND MODIFICATIONS OF THE COPPER CONCENTRATE INJECTION CONTROL IN A TENIENTE CONVERTER
L.G. Bergh§, P. Chacana and P. Delgado
§ Chemical Engineering Department, Santa Maria University
Valparaiso, Chile, lbergh@pqui.utfsm.cl
Caletones Smelter, El Teniente Division, Codelco-Chile

A study to develop a fault diagnosis system in the pneumatic injection of copper concentrate into a Teniente Converter at Caletones Smelter, Chile, is presented.
Keywords: automation, process control, data processing, pneumatic injection
Session slot T-Th-A12: Control Applications in Blast Furnace and LD Converter Operations/Area code 7b : Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing