The invention discloses a
solid copper material
processing method and an apparatus thereof. In the step of feeding and melting, a feeder is utilized to feed
solid copper material into a
shaft furnace which is at least 16 meters high, and the
solid copper material is molten into molten copper; and the molten copper automatically flows into a refining furnace via a connecting chute between the
shaft furnace and the refining furnace, and is refined. Refining includes the steps of oxidation and reduction. The method utilizes the height of the
shaft furnace to constantly heat the solid copper material in the process of emitting high-temperature
flue gas, the temperature of the finally emitted
flue gas is only 250DEG C, consequently, the residual heat of the
flue gas is sufficiently utilized, the heat efficiency is increased,
energy consumption is reduced, and the melting speed is increased. The invention also discloses a solid copper material
processing apparatus, which adopts the combination of the shaft furnace and the refining furnace and sufficiently utilizes the characteristics of the shaft furnace and the refining furnace, i.e. high melting speed, high
mechanization and
automation degree,
safe operation, flexible furnace
body size, good environment protection effect and low fabrication cost, and the apparatus is particularly applicable to the
processing of solid copper material in large and medium waste copper
recovery smelteries.