(MERAF) for the Base Metals Smelting Sector - CCME
(MERAF) for the Base Metals Smelting Sector - CCME
(MERAF) for the Base Metals Smelting Sector - CCME
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T.8 Summary of Emission Reduction Options (2008 and 2015)<br />
Site Option <strong>for</strong> Reduction By 2008 Option <strong>for</strong> Reduction By 2015<br />
Hudson Bay Mining<br />
and <strong>Smelting</strong><br />
Inco Thompson<br />
Falconbridge Kidd<br />
Falconbridge<br />
Sudbury<br />
Inco Copper Cliff<br />
Noranda Horne<br />
Incremental improvements to gas<br />
handling system<br />
Capital Cost: $30 to 60 million<br />
Operating Cost: $3 to 6 million/year<br />
Reduction: 10% to 50% of toxics and<br />
PM. (10% of 2000 estimate<br />
assumed). No effect on SO 2 .<br />
Improvements to gas handling<br />
system<br />
Capital Cost: $20 to 70 million<br />
Operating Cost: $ 2 to 7 million/year<br />
Reduction: 20% to 50% of toxics and<br />
PM. (20% assumed). No effect on<br />
SO 2,<br />
Wet scrubbing technology or<br />
High Temperature Particulate<br />
Removal<br />
Capital Cost: $6 to 20 million<br />
Operating Cost: $1 to2 million<br />
Reduction: Greater than 90% of<br />
toxics, PM and SO 2 in Feed Prep<br />
and Scrap Melting Stacks<br />
Wet scrubbing technology<br />
Capital Cost: $50 to 80 million<br />
Operating Cost: $5 to 8 million/year<br />
Reduction: Greater than 90% of<br />
toxics, PM and SO 2 . (90%<br />
assumed).<br />
Wet scrubbing of Fluid Bed<br />
Roaster off-gas<br />
Capital Cost: $60 to 80 million<br />
Operating Cost: $6 to 8 million/year<br />
Reduction: Greater than 97% of<br />
toxics, PM and SO 2 from Fluid Bed<br />
Roaster stream. (97% of Fluid Bed<br />
Roaster contribution assumed).<br />
Increasing percentage of matte<br />
processed through <strong>the</strong> Noranda<br />
continuous converter expansion<br />
of <strong>the</strong> acid plant and connection<br />
of Peirce-Smith converters to<br />
acid plant<br />
Capital Cost: $20 to 50 million<br />
Installation of hydrometallurgical<br />
process*<br />
Capital Cost: $500 to 800 million<br />
Operating Savings: $2 to 3 million/year<br />
Reduction: Greater than 90% of toxics,<br />
PM and SO 2 . (90% of 2000 estimate<br />
assumed <strong>for</strong> PM, 95% assumed <strong>for</strong><br />
SO 2 ).<br />
Smelter modernization and acid<br />
plant<br />
Capital Cost: $500 to 700 million<br />
Operating Cost: $35 to 45 million/year<br />
Reduction: Greater than 90% of toxics,<br />
PM and SO 2 . (90% assumed).<br />
No major changes beyond 2008<br />
No major changes beyond 2008<br />
Continuous converting technology*<br />
Capital Cost: $200 to 350 million<br />
Operating Savings: $2 million/year<br />
potential costs due to additional acid<br />
production<br />
Reduction: Greater than 90% of toxics,<br />
PM and SO 2 of smelter releases. (90%<br />
of copper stack releases assumed).<br />
No major changes beyond 2008<br />
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