Recipients: Gabriel Riveros, Andrzej Warczok, Daniel Smith, Ariel Balocchi

Paper: "Advantages of Continuous Copper Fire Refining in a Packed Bed”
Metall. Mater. Trans. B, 39B, 179–217 (2008)

Gabriel Riveros

Quote:
"The new process of continuous copper fire refining in a packed bed reactors has been developed by Universidad de Chile and ENAMI Corporation in a laboratory scale, mathematical modeling, supported by fundamental research, and pilot-industrial scale. The PAIPOTE continuous fire refining process showed during the industrial tests in Hernan Videla Lira Smelter of ENAMI feasibility and very high intensity in relatively small reactors."

Biography:
Gabriel Riveros is an assistant professor at the University of Chile in Santiago, Chile.

Andrzej Warczok

Biography:
Andrzej Warczok is a an assistant professor in the Department of Mining Engineering at the Universided de Chile.

Daniel Smith

Quote:
"This award is a huge recognition of our work in developing a revolutionary methodology of cooper refining. Regarding that the base of our investigation was to find a way of making continuous and more efficient the above process, this award ratifies that we are in the right way. I think that the future of metallurgy is in simplifying the processes and making them more eco-friendly."

Biography:
Daniel Smith is employed by ENAMI, the Chilean National Mining Corporation.

Ariel Balocchi

Biography:
Ariel Balocchi is a smelter manager with ENAMI, the Chilean National Mining Corporation.