Integration, Optimisation & Design of Mineral Processing Circuits (IntegratedMinPro '21) is MEI's new conference, which was announced in December last year. It will deal with new approaches to mineral processing circuits, whether through design, modelling, optimisation or operation. This includes integration of unit operations (e.g. comminution and flotation), novel flowsheets that incorporate new equipment and new approaches to optimising circuit design.
We are pleased to announce our first sponsor, Promet 101, which was also the first company to sign up for sponsorship of Flotation '21.
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| Promet 101's Stuart Saich and MEI's Jon Wills shake hands on the Flotation '21 sponsorship agreement at Flotation '19, which the company also sponsored |
ProMet 101 is an international company, whose objectives are to provide sound solutions to client’s requirements and ensure that a well-documented path from ore definition, metallurgical testing programs through to process design criteria is provided for subsequent scrutiny by third parties such as engineering entities engaged to complete detail designs or peer reviews for project financing.
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| IntegratedMinPro '21 |
We look forward to welcoming Promet 101 to Cornwall next year. IntegratedMinPro '21 will run back to back with Physical Separation '21 at Falmouth's National Maritime Museum.
Updates at #IntegratedMinPro21 and #PhysicalSeparation21.
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Barry, I am extremely happy that you are planning and getting support for "integrated mineral processing"; that word "integrated" has been neglected in our profession for ages. Our Processing Plants are like a "human body"--size reduction works on some properties, screening is based on some other and when we come to classification it is settling characteristics in a fluid media(centrifugal forces also in some), then flotation is a surface phenomenon. Even a small change due to changes in feed characteristics/feed rate changes/wear and tear have cascading effects.Many times the final parameter in assay and recovery--any one of the above will change the performance of the preceding and next operation.
ReplyDeleteIn many of my talks I keep telling plant people that one should monitor all these separately and then integrate.To illustrate, if flotation circuit is not performing as per expectation, I tell them to check circulating loads of grinding circuit also.
I would like mineral engineer to keep track of blasting practices because it changes the characteristics of feed to our plant.
The planned Seminar, for me, is a leap forward and let me compliment ProMet 101 for the lead.
This conference is going to bring to light many aspects of how to analyse and control a processing plant.
I wish you all the best.