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Pilot plants cannot usually be designed to resemble large-scale operations in every respect. Excessive heat loss in comparison with industrial installations is the major problem in scaling pyrometallurgical operations.
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This paper presented at the AIME Annual Meeting, New Orleans, February 1957.
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Buehl, R.C. Design of pyrometallurgical pilot plants. JOM 9, 1359–1362 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03398315
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