Leveraging mining performance across the entire process chain – from simulation to installation and optimisation
For increasing throughput, preserving product quality or optimising process water recovery, efficient solid/liquid separation is a crucial competitive advantage. The ANDRITZ portfolio covers the full solid/liquid process for excellent throughput of high-quality products: From simulation to equipment selection to continuous process optimisation – to not only select the right machinery but keeping operating costs low and reliability high. With ANDRITZ, you are not just adopting technology, you are partnering with a leader who is dedicated to guiding you through every step of the process.
Simulation: Designing a process and making sure it works – before capital commitment
Envisioning the future of mining operations, ANDRITZ’s mission is to lead the transformation towards fully autonomous plants, where innovation in automation and digitalisation delivers unparalleled efficiency, safety and sustainability. The most important step of this process is the first: using simulation technology like IDEAS during the process design phase. This technology creates a “virtual process” environment where process designs, modifications and retrofits can be finetuned and verified faster than in real time, well before committing any capital costs. Modelling complex plants that include comminution, high pressure acid leaching, heat recovery circuits, neutralisation, countercurrent decantation (CCD), pressure oxidation, precipitation, filtration, solvent extraction, or electrowinning – the possibilities are seemingly endless.
Installation: The right solution from sedimentation, to dewatering, filtration and drying
ANDRITZ’s current portfolio covers the full solid/liquid separation process and ensures excellent throughput of high-quality products – all with low operating costs and maximum reliability. The wide range covering thickeners, decanter and pusher centrifuges, belt presses and filter presses, disc filters and a wide range of dryers, means that ANDRITZ is able to configure a processing line tailored to fit your specific needs.
The variety of different technologies combined with the opportunity to analyse your processing requirements and conduct tests in a state-of-the-art laboratory means that you get the right equipment or individualised line solution for your specific need. Filtration of iron ore, lithium, coal and the respective tailings, machine throughputs of 100 tonnes per hour or an ideally synchronised thickening and dewatering solution from a single source – none of these pose a problem for ANDRITZ.
Continuous optimisation: Transforming the future towards full autonomy
Recognising the need for seamless integration, robust cybersecurity and continuous monitoring and optimisation, ANDRITZ has combined the power of smart sensors, big data analytics, and virtual and augmented reality to develop a portfolio of digital industrial solutions – with cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions crafted to revolutionise your industrial facility into a fully autonomous powerhouse.
Within this portfolio, addIQ control systems offer cutting-edge machine and process control for solid/liquid separation equipment and systems. To ensure safe, trouble-free operations, ANDRITZ automation solutions range from upgrades to individual systems, including electrics, control equipment and instrumentation, to full automation of entire processes and plants.
For greenfield plants, ANDRITZ designs and tests using dynamic simulations to ensure error-free startup. For upgrades and optimisation projects, ANDRITZ customises a complete range of engineering, process simulation, control and training solutions depending on your individual requirements. Through the integration of AI algorithms and smart sensors, production processes are streamlined, predictive maintenance improved and robust condition monitoring established. ANDRITZ’s range is rounded off by local service and support of more than 2,700 separation specialists around the globe – with offerings including consulting, process optimisation, repairs, upgrades, and OEM spare and wear parts.
With ANDRITZ, you are not just adopting a technology; you are partnering with a mining expert dedicated to guiding you through every step of the process.