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Thickeners Improve Production at Cerro Pasco
Imagine doubling plant throughput from 1,150 metric tons per day (mt/d) to almost 2,500 mt/d, and perhaps as much as 3,000 mt/d within a reasonable timeframe and at an acceptable cost, all the time working hand in hand with a trustworthy contractor. That would be a plant manager's dream. It happened recently in Peru. A local firm, Bisa (Buenaventura Ingenieros S.A.) carried out the full design and engineering of the original Cerro Pasco oxide plant. Bisa and Volcan launched a tender for the supply of four drum filters, which was awarded to FLSmidth. However, after an initial commissioning and startup phase, the design turned out to be far from optimal as the filters were creating bottlenecks because they were undersized and the design criteria were incorrect. FLSmidth proposed a redesign and replaced the filters with two thickeners instead of the filters. The detail engineering confirmed the outstanding accuracy of the calculations during the proposal stage, allowing FLSmidth to maintain the original specifications for the main and ancillary equipment prior to procurement.
Thickeners Improve Production at Cerro Pasco
Imagine doubling plant throughput from 1,150 metric tons per day (mt/d) to almost 2,500 mt/d, and perhaps as much as 3,000 mt/d within a reasonable timeframe and at an acceptable cost, all the time working hand in hand with a trustworthy contractor. That would be a plant manager's dream. It happened recently in Peru. A local firm, Bisa (Buenaventura Ingenieros S.A.) carried out the full design and engineering of the original Cerro Pasco oxide plant. Bisa and Volcan launched a tender for the supply of four drum filters, which was awarded to FLSmidth. However, after an initial commissioning and startup phase, the design turned out to be far from optimal as the filters were creating bottlenecks because they were undersized and the design criteria were incorrect. FLSmidth proposed a redesign and replaced the filters with two thickeners instead of the filters. The detail engineering confirmed the outstanding accuracy of the calculations during the proposal stage, allowing FLSmidth to maintain the original specifications for the main and ancillary equipment prior to procurement.
Thickeners Improve Production at Cerro Pasco
Oscar Martinez (Autor:in)
2017
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
Cerro de pasco twenty-eight years ago
| Engineering Index Backfile | 1929
Tema Archiv | 1977