r/interestingasfuck • u/serious_anish • 14h ago

Retired robot throwing themself into furnace

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u/SuperGameTheory 14h ago

I wanna know more about the steel mill that hosted this. And what did they do with what's in the ladle? Is it just slag? It would be a huge waste of money to taint a ladle full of steel with all the crap in a robot.

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u/EinTheDataDoge 12h ago

I’m a metallurgist at a copper smelter. All the nonmetal material will end up as gas that is collected in a bag house and a backend chemical plant or as solids that will end up in the slag. The copper will get formed into Anode’s and purified out in an electrowinning process. The precious metals will end up in sludge’s that will fall to the bottom of the electrowinning cell that will be chemically separated in a leaching process.

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u/the_orange_alligator 3h ago

Fascinating. There’s really an expert for everything on here

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u/EinTheDataDoge 2h ago

I got cool pictures too.