Hatch provides world-class design and operating experience for the execution of smelting and refining projects.
- Process Development & Design
- Process selection
- Pilot plants
- Process scale-up
- Integrated flowsheet development
- Process modeling
- Studies and Design Reviews
- Feasibility studies
- Basic and detailed engineering
- Technical audits
- Design reviews
- Due diligence
- Process Support Services
- Technical consulting
- On-site support services
- On-site troubleshooting
- Plant engineering
- Custom refractory lining systems
- Lining evaluations
- Quality assurance
- Safety Reviews and Commissioning
- HAZOP reviews
- Operating manuals
- Plant commissioning
- Start-up assistance
- Mechanical Design
- Drying and roasting
- Leaching and pressure leaching
- Primary smelting furnaces and custom designs – flash, electric arc, bath arc
- Slag cleaning furnaces
- Converters – Peirce-Smith, continuous flash, submerged lance
- Materials handling
- Anode furnaces and casting granulation systems
- Off-gas collection, cooling and cleaning systems
- Solvent extraction
- Electrowinning – electrorefining
- By-product recovery
- SO2 recovery systems
- Effluent treatment
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The study undertaken by Hatch for Xstrata Copper’s Kidd metallurgical site included a critical review of existing infrastructure and operations and maintenance practices with consideration given to the limited remaining operating window at the mine and the closure/post-closure periods.
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