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Engineering company to commission Mozambique equipment installation

31st May 2013

  

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Global engineering company FLSmidth is currently expediting new orders for materials handling and minerals processing equipment for a long-term coal client in the Tete region of Mozambique. The minerals processing equipment will see Africa’s largest horizontal filters installation being commissioned in 2014.

Together with six horizontal belt filters supplied by FLSmidth during the first phase of this operation in 2009, the additional six units, each 4.2 m wide and 29.5 m long, will create a total filter area of 1 488 m2. Delivery will take place from November 2013 and FLSmidth will provide the design, detailing, fabrication, delivery to site, erection assistance, commissioning, performance testing and training operations.

The minerals processing package includes the supply of four RC3000 reflux classifiers (RCs) and 28 centrifuges. The RCs, with diameters of 3 m and capacities of between 200 t/h and 250 t/h, are the largest in the range and the first being manufactured. This is also the largest order for RCs that FLSmidth has received to date for an installation in Africa.

Each RC will have a built-in protection screen to prevent oversize material entering the system. Further, to ensure a successful handover to the client and favourable operation, the FLSmidth team will provide operational assistance for six months after commissioning.

The centrifuges on order comprise 16 coarse coal VM1500 centrifuges and 12 fine coal FC1200 centrifuges, which will be supplied in a staggered delivery from early 2014.

The materials handling package involves a conveyor system comprising 33 conveyors, four silos and six feeders, as well as a repeat order for a run-of-mine (RoM) tip.

The conveyors have different belt widths of between 1 200 mm and 2 100 mm, with capacities of between 1 200 t/h and 6 000 t/h. This order also entails design, detailing, fabrication, supply, delivery to site, erection supervision, commissioning and assisted operation. The order also includes all mechanical and structural components, such as transfer towers, silo chutes, magnets, belt scales, lubrication system, skirts and supports.

The 4 800 t/h RoM tip comprises a bin; two flight bar feeders; two primary, two secondary and two tertiary sizers; and two sizing screens, including supporting steel structures/stations and ancillaries. The capacity of the sizers is between about 2 000 t/h and 4 000 t/h and there are two sizing stations – one for tip and primary sizing and the other for secondary and tertiary sizing and screening.

All mechanical, structural and electrical work on the conveyor and RoM tip orders will be conducted in-house by FLSmidth Roymec, with FLSmidth providing assistance on the electrical scope of work.


On the RoM tip package, FLSmidth will supply the relevant equipment, including its reliable Abon sizers and Buffalo feeder breakers. In line with FLSmidth’s one-source strategy, full life-cycle support for all equipment supplied will be provided from the FLSmidth service centre in the Tete province of Mozambique.

“The coal industry is one of FLSmidth’s six focus industries and, with the recent acquisition of manufacturing company Ludowici, FLSmidth offers a complete range of equipment for this industry – a decisive factor for this order,” says FLSmidth Group CEO Jørgen Huno Rasmussen.

“Further, this contract demonstrates the continued good relationship between a major global coal and iron-ore producer and FLSmidth, and it is an important step for FLSmidth towards the planned global market leadership in coal.”

Edited by Megan van Wyngaardt
Creamer Media Contributing Editor Online

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