Novasmelt

The underlying philosophy for the Novasmelt™ furnace is our belief that the equipment design should not compromise the process efficiency.  There are inherent issues with the current 30 year old TSL technology that does not permit the smelting and off-gas post-combustion processes to be optimised. The Novasmelt™ furnace design solves these issues providing a vessel that can effectively contain the smelting and off-gas reactions.

Tenova’s focus has been designing innovative solutions to issues with the TSL technology, which had stagnated under the status quo. Modernisation of the TSL technology began with a review of all preconceptions of design and methodology currently accepted by industry. A combination of physical modelling, small scale testing, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation, and full scale demonstrations resulted in the successful generation of a new lance, furnace and plant design.

Equipment from these endeavours has now been installed and successfully operated by existing TSL sites. Other developments are currently in the process of being demonstrated at the commercial scale. Critically, the Novasmelt™ also incorporates the industrially proven and patented technologies supplied by Tenova for furnace optimisation and control applied to the TSL lance, bath and operation control.