AUSTRALIA

Company Overview
AUSTRALIA

DORR-OLIVER
Global Operations
 Process Equipment in Australia

Sedimentation Filtration Flotation

Test Services,
Pilot Plants
 TYPES OF FLOTATION CELLS
PYRAMID COLLUMNS
WEMCO SMARTCELLS

AGITAIR CELLS
WEMCO 1+1
 MAJOR FLOTATION APPLICATIONS
BASE METALS
•COPPER
•LEAD
•ZINC

INDUSTRIAL MINERALS
•POTASH
•PHOSPHATE
•CLAYS

PRECIOUS METALS
•GOLD
•PLATINUM AND PALLADIUM
•SILVER

COAL
IRON ORE
WEMCO SmartCell ®

New Design Features

Tahmoor
Tahmoor 60m3 SmartCell™
 Reasons for SmartCell Selection

• No blower or associated pipework required

• Simple control philosophy
• Competitively priced
 Cell Design Parameters

Feed rate 1300m3/hr

Feed solids 7.5% w/w

Target Yield Not specified

Target Ash Content Not specified

 Cell Design Parameters

Cell Residence Time 2.35mins

Froth Carrying Capacity 5.6tph/m2

Lip loading 2.9tph/m lip length

Froth surface area/volume ratio 0.19

 Cell Design Features

Level Measurement Ultrasonic Ball on Stick

Level Control Single 300NB Actuated Butterfly

Valve
Air Control Manual Butterfly Valve – Wemco
self compensates for variation in
feed density
 Cell Current Performance

No metallurgical performance data yet available

Air flow 1400Am3/hr

Power draw 40kw; 0.8kw/m3

Froth Depth 100mm

Froth Depth Variance +/-25mm

 Cell Current Performance

• Cell performance has to-date been very steady

• Continuous, high mass pull to concentrate
• Steady level control
• Air valve running fully open all the time
Tahmoor 60m3 SmartCell™
INSTALLATIONS
 COAL FLOTATION
• Over 700 Wemco Flotation Cells (150 separate
installations) installed Worldwide on coal
flotation
• 4 SmartCell installations on coal
Bailey Plant, USA – 4 x 20m3 SmartCells
 LARGE LOCAL WEMCO
SMARTCELLS IN NON-COAL
DUTIES
Mt Isa Mines (6) - 100 cubic meter cells
Copper Scavengers/ Cleaner Scavengers
Mt Gordon Copper (4) - 100 cubic meter cells
Copper Roughers
Batue Hijau (50) - 130 cubic meter cells