Mintek’s Advanced Optimisation Control Strategies in Milling, Flotation and Smelting
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Mintek, specialists in mineral and metallurgical technology, have developed advanced optimisation control strategies in milling, flotation and smelting. The strategies address process specific problems namely downstream flow disturbances in flotation circuits from open milling circuits, fluctuating grade and recovery of flotation circuits and furnace fault conditions including power trips and electrode breakages. PlantStar is Mintek’s plant-wide control platform used to implement the customised optimisation and control software modules to solve the aforementioned difficulties. These modules are the MillStarTM Mill Feed Controller, the FloatStarTM Grade-Recovery Optimiser and the MinstralTM Electrode Hoist Controller. The commercial results of implementations demonstrate the success thereof.
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