The multipurpose smelting  unit  MAGMA can  be  efficiently used  in non-ferrous  metallurgy instead  of  conventional  units:  Shaft  furnace, Vanyukov furnace, Ausmelt unit, unit for fuming in the production of ni, cu, pb, sn, etc.

Thanks to design peculiarities and high cumulative thermal efficiency, MAGMA provides better technical and economic performance.

Continuous smelting of ferro-nickel with the use of MAGMA envisages preliminary heating of nickel ore and flux by process gases from the smelting chamber of the unit.

Fed materials are smelted in a liquid bath of ore-flux molten mass. For liquid-phase reduction of nickel, cobalt and some part of iron, carbon reducer is used that is fed to the surface of the molten mass.

The smelting chamber of MAGMA is heated by fuel-oxygen burners / oxygen burners located on the perimeter of the body of the smelting chamber.

The dust  captured by the  gas  treatment system  is injected  in the flow of  heated nitrogen into  the  ore-flux molten  mass,  where  nickel and cobalt are additionally reduced from the dust.

The produced ferro-nickel is also released from the smelting chamber non-continuously.

The depleted reduced slag not containing oxides of nickel and cobalt is continuously released from the smelting unit.

Further, after settlement and sedimentation of ferro-nickel prills, the slag is used for production of cast-slag products or slag crushed stones.

Production capacity of MAGMA for smelted charge material is 300,000 tons per year.

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