The invention discloses a
smelting process of low-grade
scrap copper. The process comprises the following steps: 1) generation of an initial
molten pool; 2) a melting process, namely continuously adding auxiliary materials into a top blowing furnace, inserting a spray gun into melt, spraying
oxygen-enriched air and fuel into the melt, carrying out submerged
combustion and top-blown
smelting, and stopping adding the auxiliary materials when the liquid level of the melt in a to-be-blown furnace is 0.3m to 0.5m higher than a bleed hole, repeatedly carrying out
smelting and slagging operations after opening the bleed hole for slagging, and stopping charging and melting when the black
copper melt surface inside the top blowing furnace ascends to the position which is 100mm to 200mm below the bleed hole; (3) a blowing process, namely exhausting
slag inside the top blowing furnace, inserting the spray gun into black
copper, and spraying the
oxygen-enriched air and fuel to carry out submerged
combustion and blowing, and respectively discharging the produced raw copper and blowing
slag from a copper
discharge hole and the bleed hole; and 4) repeating of the smelting and blowing processes. According to the technical scheme disclosed by the invention, the operation for smelting
scrap copper is flexible, and the
smelting process is strong in adaptability on raw materials, high in safety, and high in
recovery rate of copper and valuable
metal.