Water and Wastewater Treatment Equipment and …

With a half century of engineering and process expertise, coupled with dedication to customers, we provide process solutions for a wide variety of water-treatment applications in municipal, …

Thickeners and clarifiers – water recovery – FLS

The deep tank design maximises pulp concentration, and produces uniform, non-segregating underflow slurry with a paste consistency. Spiral Rake Blade for thickeners: the optimal design E-® Ultra High-Rate Clarifiers and Thickeners

Replacing Filters with Paste Thickeners | Case Study

A 15 m diameter WesTech Deep Bed™ paste thickener was installed above the disposal site (about one half mile from the plant) at an elevation to be above the highest potential raisings of the dam. The existing two high-rate thickeners received the process refuse stream and thickened to about 30 wt% solids, which was then pumped to the paste ...

Dry Stack Tailings: Air-Dried as an Alternative

In 2015, SBPIL replaced their high rate tailings thickener with a 14 meter (46 foot) WesTech Deep Bed™ paste thickener. Deposition is in an existing 3.6 hectare (9 acre) tailings pond, accomplished by pumping paste to three towers located in …

OCP Concentrate Pipeline Dewatering

WesTech is supplying the Deep Bed™ paste thickeners required to produce the target feed density for four of the acid plants. WesTech is also supplying the pumps, instrumentation, and surge holding tanks. WesTech/Paste Thick™ recommended and designed process control to insure a tight underflow density for the acid plant.

Deep Bed™ Paste Thickener

The WesTech Deep Bed Paste Thickener can thicken a tailings stream to non-settling paste at solids concentrations approaching that of a filter cake. Design characteristics of the Deep Bed result in maximum water recovery, maximum …

Mineral Processing Wastewater Solutions

In underground mining, the WesTech Deep Bed™ paste thickener is an emerging option to the conventional solution of high-rate thickener/vacuum filter for paste backfill applications. There can be a number of factors that make paste thickening an attractive alternative. ... and copper. It is mined mostly in Canada, the former USSR, Australia ...

Replacing Filters with Paste Thickeners

Replacing Filters with Paste Thickeners Deep Bed™ Paste Thickeners CASE STUDY Feed Underflow Overflow Stream flow, gpm 1300 494 806 Stream Specific Gravity 1.13 1.34 1.0 Wt% solids 23% 51% Dry solids, stph 84.5 84.5 WesTech 15m diameter Deep Bed™ paste thickener located above the deposition site.

Hydraulic Fracturing Wastewater Treatment Solutions

WesTech's Hydraulic Fracturing (fracking) wastewater treatment solutions employ a variety of possibilities depending on the need. ... In many states the frack water is injected into regulated deep wells – usually old drained gas or oil wells. The only water treatment usually necessary is filtration. ... Deep Bed™ Paste Thickener. Product ...

OCP Concentrate Pipeline Dewatering | Case Study

WesTech/Paste Thick Associates recommended and designed process control to insure a tight underflow density for the acid plant. The thickener underflow system has instrumentation and methods of monitoring and trimming the density to a narrow range. WesTech 20 m Deep Bed paste thickener and 10 m surge tanks feeding the acid plant.

Mine Backfill

In underground mining, the WesTech Deep Bed™ Paste Thickener is an emerging option to the conventional solution of high-rate thickener/vacuum filter for paste backfill applications. There can be a number of factors which make paste thickening an attractive alternative. There are some backfill operations with shallow mines and long distance ...

HiFlo High Rate Paste Thickeners

Pilot or laboratory size equipment is available for testing or purchase. WesTech's design provides for deaeration of the thickener feed prior to flow into the feedwell. Proper level of the flocculation can be carefully controlled. Feedwell design enhances the separation and pulp bed interface sensors are utilized for optimum performance.

Efficient Liquid-Solids Separation Is Critical to …

WesTech Deep Bed paste thickener at phosphoric acid plant. Clarification. Clarifiers remove fine gypsum from the phosphoric acid product to ensure a pure liquid for later production steps. The primary goal of the clarifier is to evenly …

Deep Bed Thickener in High Rainfall Area | Case Study

The slurry pond was near capacity when the WesTech Deep Bed paste thickener was installed. A dam raise was needed at the end of year one after the surface stack was begun. Over five years of operation, the dam elevation increased over 20 meters. Comparing photos 8 and 9, the white control room building can be used as an elevation reference.

WesTech Engineering

WesTech Engineering is your independent source for mining and mineral processing equipment. Paste Thickeners, Deep Bed thickeners, Horizontal Belt Filters, Filtration Systems, Hi-Rate and UltraSep Thickeners, Carbon Retention Screens, Linear Screens, Thickener Lift Drives, and more.

Coal Mining & Preparation Mineral Industry Solutions

WesTech's coal preparation technologies clean and separate coal-rich matter from mineral-rich particles by size. This preparation increases the quality and commercial value of saleable coal by reducing 75-80 percent of the ash and reducing 15-80 percent of the trace elements. ... Deep Bed™ Paste Thickener. Product. HiFlo™ High-Rate ...

Flocculation, dewatering and sedimentation behaviour of …

The world's largest thickener suppliers and their equipment include Outotec Paste Thickener, FL Deep Cone® Thickener, WesTech Deep Bed™ Paste Thickener, ANDRITZ Delkor Thickener, etc., and some newly developed thickening equipment such as Feiyi NGT-16 Thickener, and BGRIMM Deep Core Paste Thickener.

Paste Thickeners

percentage points higher than underflow from a high-rate thickener. The WesTech Deep BedTM paste thickener is the latest advancement in the evolution of this style of thickener. To be able to consistently dewater the tailings slurry to a non-settling and non-segregating suspension, WesTech Deep BedTM paste thickener design includes:

Paste thickeners in India's iron and steel industry

Paste thickener technology entered the Indian iron market in 2015 when the Shri Bajrang Power and Ispat Ltd (SBP&IL) plant installed a 14 m diameter WesTech Deep Bed TM thickener. This site provides a good study for paste thickener use to address some of the iron slimes and TSF issues. This site has a small TSF footprint.

Paste Thickeners | McLanahan

A compromise option of using a rakeless (ULT) design can be considered. In this case, the cost and complexity of a mechanical drive is traded off for a deep mud bed and steeper 60 degree floor slope picture. The ULT design will not achieve the same underflow density as the paste thickener with rake and pickets, but it can be more economical.

MudMax™ Bed-Level Monitoring System

Patented Bed-Level Instrument That Brings Thickener Control Within Reach. MudMax™ uses advanced technology to deliver a first-of-its-kind bed-level monitoring system that provides 360-degree bed-level measurement inside thickeners and clarifiers. Multiple sensors located in the active bed-level area directly detect and accurately measure bed ...

Design of a WesTech HiDensity Paste Thickener for …

A 45 m diameter WesTech HiDensityTM paste thickener was designed and built to produce thickened tailings from 362 tph of bauxite tails for surface stacking at the CVRD Paragominas …

Conventional Gravity Thickener

Conventional Gravity Thickener Overview. WesTech's complete line of high rate, heavy duty thickeners offers the most advanced designs for use in the industry. WesTech equipment is engineered and manufactured to the highest standard in quality. It offers the precision and durability required to keep your process going.

Flocculation, dewatering and sedimentation behaviour of …

Typical tailing backfill scheme using thickener (a) and internal structure of the WesTech HiFlo™ thickener (b), Deep Bed™ paste thickener (c) [16], [17], [18]. By further comparing thickeners in Figs. 1 b and 1 c, there are obvious structural differences, which mainly includes gentle floor angles (HiFlo tailing thickener)/steep floor ...

Tailings Management With Paste Thickening

Water Recovery and Tailings Disposal Improved With Paste Thickening. Traditionally, waste disposal has been an environmental challenge for mining. But now the industry has begun to embrace paste, or thickened tailings, as a way to address the challenge. Paste thickening is different than conventional thickening.

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Design of a WesTech HiDensity Paste Thickener for …

WesTech DeepBedTM paste thickeners (sometimes referred to generically as deep cone type thickeners) are characterised by a height to diameter ratio between one and two, a bottom cone angle of 15-45o, and a bridge mounted drive. Diameters are limited to about 24 m for this type of paste thickener. The mud bed height is

Espessador de esteira

Consulte todas as informações sobre o produto espessador de esteira Deep Bed™ da empresa Westech. Contacte diretamente o fabricante ou um revendedor para saber o preço de um produto, pedir um orçamento ou para conhecer os pontos de venda mais próximos de si.

Espessadores de Pasta

A equipe WesTech pode ser consultada no decorrer de todas as fases de um projeto; desde a viabilidade, detalhamento, fornecimento, startup, até a otimização e auditorias de sistemas. Incorpore a experiência da WesTech em processos minerais e sistema de pasta na sua equipe de projeto. Wash Feed Paste Thickener Paste Thickener Paste Thickener ...

Belt thickener

HiDensity™ Paste Thickener Overview: WesTech's HiDensity™ Paste Thickener produces non-settling thickened tailings with lower viscosities and underflow concentrations than what is produced in the Deep Bed™ Paste Thickener. The HiDensity Thickener also has a lower height-to-diameter ratio, which allows for on-the-ground construction and ...