Research and application of the virtual simulation system teaching method in copper pyrometallurgy

Copper pyrometallurgy has been holding a special place in the copper smelting industry. However, it is hard to explore the effect of parameters on production effectively due to the inoperable practice in the factory. The physical and chemical changes during the metallurgical process of copper smelting are also too complex to be observed. Therefore, we designed and built a virtual factory for copper pyrometallurgy, copper pyrometallurgy virtual simulation system (CPVSS), to simulate the copper smelting plant. The entire technical routes, system function, the main productive principle, technological process, and conditional tests were fully simulated in the CPVSS. It also provided a solution for the observation of internal phenomena in this paper. Moreover, sample computations were provided in this paper to illustrate the parameter simulation of the smelting process. A novel interactive experimental model was also constructed with virtual simulation technology and network multimedia technology, which provides powerful support for copper pyrometallurgy learning.