Engineering Dobersek in Germany and Severniy Mining and Processing (SevGOK) in Ukraine have chosen Metso Outotec’s mill discharge pumps for Severniy’s greenfield course of waste thickening plant, the OEM says.
ไดอะแฟรม shall be used to pump the iron ore focus plant’s waste sludge into the settling ponds from the thickeners. The 22 pumps to be delivered by Metso Outotec embrace 10 large high-capacity MDM700 pumps. Together, the pumps are capable of handling a complete volume of 117,500 cu.m/h of waste sludge.
“SevGOK’s advanced is the second of its type in Ukraine, and Engineering Dobersek in Germany has designed it,” Axel Stappen, Managing Director, Engineering Dobersek GmbH, says. “With this funding, SevGOK aims to decrease environmental impacts and costs by reducing power consumption and water utilization. They selected Metso Outotec pumps because of their reliability and effectivity, and the good support Metso Outotec has offered of their previous initiatives.”
Michael Nienhaus, Head of Sales, Slurry Pumps, Germany, Metso Outotec, says: “We are delighted to have been selected to produce our MD collection pumps to SevGOK’s challenge. To give an concept of the scale of an MDM700 pump, it can weigh as a lot as 31 t and be 2.8 m in diameter, and have a powerful pumping volume of as a lot as 9,650 cu.m/h. The MDM pumps operate in very demanding circumstances, and we’ve designed them to operate reliably and to withstand exceptional wear.”
Metso Outotec mill discharge pumps have been designed for mill circuit functions, corresponding to SAG/ball mill discharge pumps and hydrocyclone feed. Special emphasis has been placed on components which have to resist distinctive wear from coarse heavy solids and flow turbulence, the company says.
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