PT Smelting - Gresik

Acid Plant Database October 1, 2009

Owner	PT Smelting
Background	Ownership: 60.5% - Mitsubishi Materials 25% - PT. Freeport Indonesia 9.5% - Mitsubishi Corporation 5.0% - Nippon Mining and Metals Co. Ltd.
Location	30 kilometers north of the city of Surabaya, East Java Desa Roomo, Kecamatan Manyar PO. Box 555 Gresik 61151 Jawa Timur - Indonesia
Website	www.mmc.co.jp/sren/Gresik.htm
Plant	Gresik Copper Smelter and Refinery
Coordinates*	7° 8' 27" S, 112° 38' 12" E
Type of Plant	Metallurgical
Gas Source	Copper Mitsubishi Continuous Smelting Process
Gas Cleaning	Washing Tower - Venturi Scrubber - (3) Gas Coolers - 1st Stage WESP - 2nd Stage WESP
Plant Capacity	2300 MTPD
SA/DA	4 DA
Status	Operating
Year Built	1998
Technology	Outotec
Contractor	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Remarks	Acid Cooling - Sea water - Tube Material: Super-ferritic Cr-Mo-Ni stainless steel - Tubesheet Material: Duplex Cr-Mo-Ni stainless steel
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General	The smelter is adjacent to Petrokimia Gresik, a government owned fertilizer company, which utilizes all of the smelter sulfuric acid. - Smelter and refinery will treat copper concentrate produced by PT Freeport Indonesia in Irian Jaya (Papua) - Total Project cost: $626 million - Design capacity: 200,000 metric tons of copper metal
References	Goto, M., Konda, K., Muto, T., Yamashiro, A. and Matsutani, T.,"Gresik Copper Smelter and Refinery - Current Operation and Expansion Plan", Sulfide Smelting 2002, TMS, pp. 61-72.
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MTPD - Metric Tonne per Day STPD - Short Ton per Day
MTPA - Metric Tonne per Annum STPA - Short Ton per Annum
SA - Single Absorption
DA - Double Absorption

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