Automated High Capacity Processing of Clay Slurries and Other Industrial Operations
Quantum Design’s innovative SHGMS system offers high processing capacity in a compact, modular design with fully cryogen-free operation. The self-contained, automated system integrates into your processing stream and can operate continuously requiring only electrical power, compressed air, raw material and water. Multiple systems can be operated in parallel for increased processing capacity and minimal loss in throughput during maintenance.
The Quantum Design SHGMS system provides:
Easy-to-Use, Fully Automated Operation
Touch Screen Interface
Average Magnetic Field of 5 Tesla over Processing Volume
Fully Cryogen-Free Operation – No Helium Transfers Needed
Compact, Self-Contained System With High Processing Capacity
10 Million kg/Year Clay Processing Throughput*
Easy Integration Into Your Processing Stream
Instantly Changeable Processing Parameters
Modular Design Allows for:
Processing Capacity to Grow as Your Needs Evolve
Maintenance of Single Unit While Other Units Continue Processing
Ease of use
Magnetic separation can be a complicated process. Quantum Design has simplified this process through an intuitive operator interface that guides the operator through setup of all the parameters required for magnetic separation. It monitors the magnet cool down sequence, and, once processing has started, provides feedback to the operator on the status, timing and overall state of the system.
The Quantum Design SHGMS system features two independent processing canisters which are switched in and out of the magnetic field. One canister processes material inside the magnetic field until it is fully loaded with magnetic components while the other is cleaned simultaneously outside the magnet. The canisters are then exchanged automatically so that the clean canister moves inside the magnet and begins to processes material while the loaded canister is cleaned outside the field. This sequence repeats and results in continuous processing. As shown in these examples, the graphic user interface depicts the processing sequence through color changes to inform the operator which canister is being processed inside the magnet, and which one is being cleaned.
Modularity
Traditionally, large capacity separation was achieved with single, large capacity separators. A single Quantum Design SHGMS system can process 10-15 million kg of clay each year. This allows mining facilities to incorporate multiple machines to specifically finely tune each system for their needs. This allows for either the ability to increase the amount of clay processed at a mine incrementally, or allow for a single mine to process two different types of clay.
Furthermore, a mine that has multiple machines installed can perform maintenance on one machine while the remaining machines continue to process clay. This keeps the decrease in throughput at a minimum.
Application
SHGMS can be applied to a myriad of processes in many different industries.
Some examples include:
- Purification of kaolin (also known as China Clay) to increase its brightness, and thereby significantly increase its value
- Concentration of valuable minerals such as rare earths and precious metals
- SHGMS is capable of extracting and concentrating very small particles of weakly magnetic materials and is therefore applicable where low-gradient machines are not effective
- Extraction of valuable minerals from mine tailings
- Mine waste dumps (tailings) often contain valuable materials that the mine’s original extraction processes were unable to fully utilize
- SHGMS can be applied to the extraction and concentration of these materials
- This is particularly applicable to uranium, gold, platinum, titanium and rare earth minerals
- The removal and recycling of machining products from coolant streams
- Steel and aluminum swarf in heavy machining industries
- Rare earth minerals in permanent magnet production plants
- Industrial effluent control
- Interception and recycling of fine particles in steel production plant exit streams
- Recovery of catalysts lost in the exit streams of many industrial chemical processes
- Environmental remediation – In conjunction with biological and chemical processes SHGMS has been applied to the removal of:
- Radioactives
- Metals
- Organohalogens such as Dioxin
- The above contaminants have been removed from:
- River, lake and harbor sediments
- Soil and groundwater
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