Hydrometallurgy & Pyrometallurgy
Maximizing recovery and grade with precision measurement and control solutions.
Maximizing recovery and grade with precision measurement and control solutions.
Heap leach pad have always experienced challenges with lower metal recovery. Leach pads have traditionally been manually monitored and loss of flow and control would only be detected by personnel during inspections. Improving overall performance of the leach pad would require more personnel which creates safety risks associated with prolonged exposure. The size and location of most leaching pads also poses challenges to obtain accurate data with manual controls, especially in hazardous conditions where optimizing solvent flow and stabilizing bacteria is paramount.
Emerson offers a wide range of wireless technologies to help automate your leaching operation. It provides full visibility into your heap leach pad and helps detect plugged lines and flooding, monitor and control for uniform acid distribution, prevent pad instabilities, and provide better insight into leaching efficiency.
Leach pad wireless measurement solutions
Optimize heap leaching performance with better insight into chemical distribution.
DeltaV for mining and minerals applications
Leach pad automation solutions for optimized metal recovery.
Keystone valves
Improve recovery from leach pads with trusted valve solutions.
Although solvent extraction and electrowinning (SX/EW) processes offer lower capital and operating costs for copper recovery, consistent copper recovery is still a challenge. In solvent extraction, maintaining process stability is difficult. In electrowinning, undetected short circuits between anode and cathode can waste significant energy, time and money.
With Emerson’s wireless temperature transmitters, plant operators can detect cathode voltage abnormalities and gain valuable insight into short circuits well in advance of daily operator rounds, thereby increasing overall process current efficiency and operational profitability.
Wireless SX/EW measurement solutions
Gain insight into your solvent extraction and electrowinning processes.
DeltaV for mining and minerals applications
Leverage automation solutions for solvent extraction and electrowinning.
In today’s do-more-with-less environment, maintaining asset availability is difficult with reduced staff, smaller budgets, and an inability to detect faults early, pinpoint root causes, and plan maintenance on your terms. Emerson’s easy-to-operate condition monitoring solution delivers the earliest detection of impending faults so you can make fast, accurate repair decisions before unplanned downtime occurs, thereby optimizing your maintenance labor costs and simplifying operator training.
Asset performance management solutions
Condition monitoring and improved asset performance management of your critical fixed and mobile mining assets.
Frequently Asked Questions About Metallurgical Processing
Miners can achieve higher and more consistent metal recovery by automating their heap leach monitoring.
Miners can improve safety of personnel by implementing wireless leach pad monitoring solutions.
Remote monitoring or remote asset monitoring is a critical tool for mining since mining assets are geographically dispersed. It involves the data collection from mobile mining assets that provides status and performance from a distance.
Condition monitoring is a tool that assesses machine health and integrity. It involves various measurement acquisition types and delivers the diagnostic details necessary to predict machine failure. Condition monitoring can be applied to stacker reclaimers, electric rope shovels, crushers, conveyors, and several other machine types.
