POTENTIAL BENEFITS

The benefits of the proposed Service are presented in detail with the service scope sections, and are summarised below:

·                 Improved Yield

By optimally calculating process recipes it may be possible to minimise the amount of fluxes that need to be added to the process feed mix. This may result in lower slag volumes and potentially improved product yield.

·                 Improved Productivity

Reduced flux additions resulting from optimal process recipe calculations can reduce the amount of energy required to smelt the feed and produce a ton of product. This could potentially make more power available, which can eventually mean that the product production rate can be increased.

·                 Improved Efficiency

Optimising feed recipes can potentially result in lower flux consumption, lower reductant consumption and lower power consumption. By actively managing these consumables based on the best available data and knowledge, the efficiency of the process may be improved.

·                 Prolonged Refractory Lining Life

Compatibility between slag and refractory lining can be used as one of the constraints in optimising recipe calculations. This could ensure that the refractory lining is protected while striving for other benefits such as improved throughput, efficiency and yield.

·                 Reduced Risk

By automating process calculations and recipe calculations the risk of human error is reduced.

·                 Embedded Process Knowledge

Knowledge involved with preparing recipes to ensure successful operation and doing important process calculations can be captured and embedded into the proposed mass and energy balances and process calculation tools. This could potentially ensures that the knowledge is available and active continuously no mater the time of day, the time of the week, or whether specific personnel are unavailable.

·                 Ease of Use

Sophisticated process tools and calculations are built into user-friendly software components to ensure that process engineers and operational personnel can effectively use it to operate the plant and improve its performance.

·                 Improved Continuity

By using a computer system to embed knowledge into the plant, by providing easy access to related documentation and by providing regular user training for this System, it is possible to improve continuity on the plant. The effects of personnel moving to different positions in the organisation or of personnel leaving the organisation can therefore be reduced.

·                 Improved Consistency

By automating mass and energy balance calculations, recipe calculations and other process calculations, consistency may be improved. Consistency is one of the greatest assets on a pyrometallurgical plant, since it makes it possible to identify problems quicker and more reliably. This makes it possible to improve the process at a higher rate.

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