Developing technological processes for nonstandard copper concentrates processing with the aim to decrease pollutants emission

Heavy metals and sulfur oxides (SOx) emissions are the basic pollutants which are produced during copper smelting process. These materials are emitted in the smelter plant surroundings mostly carried by industrial exhaust gases. In the case of heavy metals, sedimentation on the surface layers in the ground is resulting with water and soil pollution. Basic step in the quantitative assessment of the environmental risks, connected with the presence of toxic materials in the smelter plant surroundings, is determination of the mechanism of their distribution and their concentration in the environment. This would enable development of potential methods that will assist preventing the further pollution of the environment. Most of the already existing mathematical models, in the field of ecological engineering, are varying in dependence of numerous factors. Approaches to this methodology are mostly based on analysis of influence and dependences among pollution sources, distribution of the pollutants and their effects on the environment. On the other hand eco-financial optimization of the material flow, as the basic precondition for solving accumulated ecological problems, is still below required attention. This way, development of the models which establishes correlations between all inputs and outputs of the industrial system, is mostly important from the aspect of production efficacy as well as from the ecological management point of view.