2025 Fall/Winter Sulfuric Acid Today Issue

Copper producer Rio Tinto replaces hot gas exchanger

Prominent copper producer Rio Tinto Kennecott (RTK) recently replaced its sulfuric acid plant’s hot gas exchanger for a new design capable of withstanding the very high gas temperatures from the company’s smelter in Magna, UT. Variable gas strength originating from the smelter had been exposing the company’s old exchanger to gas temperatures above its design threshold causing tube failures.



Sulfuric Acid Today Fall Winter 2025 Issue

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Features & Guest Columns

  • Market Outlook: What lies ahead?
  • Precision and performance: valves for sulfuric acid applications
  • Online asynchronous education for sulfuric acid plant operators
  • Hidden stresses of startup & shutdown in acid plants
  • Rethinking adiabatic gas coolers: using ceramic to solve the nozzle corrosion problem
  • Bad data, bad dosing: how sulfur quality variability leads to costly equipment failures
  • Why engineering firms and plant managers worldwide choose Beltran wet electrostatic precipitators
  • CFD applications for problem solving in sulfuric acid industry
  • Update in dew point measurement technology: potential for improved acid plant operation

Also included in this issue…

  • Elessent Clean Technologies acquires Sulphurnet
  • Paradeep Phosphates commissions 1500 MTPD sulfuric acid plant
  • Röhm commissions new sulfuric acid plant in Worms, Germany
  • Vedanta to restart Skorpion Zinc acid plant within next 6 months
  • Marimaca Copper to acquire sulfuric acid plant, aiming for cost reduction
  • Largest modernization in 30 years at Bulgarian site successfully completed