Continuing process improvements by further optimization
A new integrated online process control model, Outotec#174; Process Advisor, started up in the Nickel smelter in Kalgoorlie, Australia back in 2014. Currently fully automated control (Laboratory Process Advisor PCS) is in use 98 % of the time for six main setpoints of the process (oxygen coefficient, oxygen enrichment, preheating temperature, fuel oil, silica flux and lime flux).