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Pyrometallurgical Pilot Plant Facilities
20 t/d DC pilot plant (5.6 MVA DC-arc)
- Feed system (0.1 to 3.0 t/h)
- DC-arc furnace (5.0 kA max) 'premelter'
- DC-arc furnace (10.0 kA max) 'smelter'
- Lead splash condenser (350 kg Zn/h max)
- Off-gas handling plant (25 000 Nm³/h)
- Power supply 2 x 2.8 MVA transformer/rectifiers
- Control, instrumentation and data logging systems
5 t/d DC pilot plant (3.2 MVA DC-arc)
- DC-arc furnace (3.3 kA max)
- Feed system (1 t/h max)
- Off-gas handling plant (6 500 Nm³/h)
- Power supply 2 x 1.6 MVA transformer/rectifiers
- Control, instrumentation and data logging systems
1 t/d DC pilot plant (200 kVA DC-arc)
- DC-arc furnace (1.5 kA max)
- Feed system (0.2 t/h max)
- Off-gas handling plant (6 500 Nm³/h)
- Power supply 1 x 1.6 MVA transformer/rectifier
- Control and instrumentation systems
100 kVA DC-arc furnace facility
- DC-arc furnace (1.0 kA max)
- Feed system (50 kg/h max)
- Power supply 1 x 104 kVA transformer/rectifier
- Control, instrumentation and data logging systems
1 ton / day pilot plant (300 kVA AC-arc)
- Three-phase arc furnace (250 kW max)
- Power supply 1 x 300 kVA transformer/tap changer
- Control and data logging systems
60 kVA AC arc furnace facility
- Single-phase arc furnace (40 kW max)
- Power supply 1 x 60 kVA transformer
- Control system
300 mm bubbling fluidized-bed facility
- 300 mm I.D., fluidized-bed (1100°C max)
- Bed depth 780 mm.
- Feed system (200 kg/h max)
- Control and instrumentation systems
150 mm bubbling fluidized-bed facility
- 150 mm I.D. fluidized-bed (1100°C max, internally fired)
- 150 mm I.D. fluidized-bed (1200°C max, externally fired)
- Bed depth 260 mm.
- Feed system (50 kg/h max)
- Control, instrumentation and data logging systems
Circulating fluidized-bed facility
Facilities under development (prototype stage)
Top-blown rotary converter
- 0.5 m O.D. tiltable rotating furnace (1500°C max)
- 120 kW oxygen-propane burner
- Control system
Rotary drying kiln
- 0.6 m I.D. x 3 m steel shell kiln (5 r/min max)
- 100 kW air-propane burner
- Feed system (1 t/h max)
Support facilities
General refractory preparation and installation facility
- Bogey hearth furnace 2 m³ capacity, 1200°C max
- Refractory mixer (100 litre capacity)
- Diamond brick-cutting saw
- Furnace pre-firing heater (600°C max, programmable heating rate)
Sample preparation facility
- Jaw crusher 75 mm max size
- Rotary crusher 20 mm max size
- Ball mill 0.2 m O.D.
- Zieb-technik swing mill 0.15 m dia.
- Drying oven
Laboratory equipment
- 3 x TGA facilities
- 2 x induction furnaces
- 1 x briquetting press
- 2 x muffle furnaces
The Pyrometallurgy Division's pilot plants are located in the two bays marked with red dots. Mintek's offices and laboratories are shown in the background.
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