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Latrobe Magnesium and the Fast Cycle Retort

A FAST Cycle Retort furnace for extracting magnesium from coal-fired power station fly ash built by Latrobe Magnesium at a CSIRO facility in Melbourne has started commissioning.

 Aerial view of Latrobe Magnesium's Latrobe Valley site.

Aerial view of Latrobe Magnesium's Latrobe Valley site.

Latrobe Magnesium designed a vertical retort and furnace system to improve the capital and operating cost of the magnesium reduction step. At this stage hot commissioning is close to being completed...

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