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Mechanical Technology — May 2013
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Materials handling and logistics
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M
BE Coal and Minerals
Technology’s BATAC
®
jig
technology is gaining in-
creasing recognition for
delivering higher efficiencies, huge
economic benefits, better product
quality, better machine availability and
higher throughput rates than other tech-
nologies. The system also has excellent
separation accuracy, is relatively small
in footprint and has a comparatively low
capital cost. Every benefit the technol-
ogy offers has been field proven through
extensive and diverse test work.
Stratification by means of jigging is
one of the oldest separation methods in
the history of mineral and coal benefi-
ciation and today this environmentally-
friendly and cost efficient water-only
technology is still considered among
the most important sorting approach
for beneficiation plants.
Since the first unit was introduced
in 1964, more than 300 BATAC Jig-
ging systems have been commissioned
worldwide for coal preparation, process-
ing of iron, tin and manganese ores
and recovery of metal losses from alloy
Equipment developments in the iron ore industry
BATAC
®
jig technology is gaining increasing recognition for
delivering higher efficiencies, economic benefits, product
quality, machine availability and throughput rates than other
technologies.
MBE’s robust Jones
®
Wet High Intensity Magnetic
Separator (WHIMS) offers a high throughput
capability.
MBE Coal and Minerals Technology has introduced significant
technological developments to its iron ore offering, positioning the
company as one of the leading machine suppliers in the industry.
slags, 15 of them in southern
Africa.
BATAC jigs not only excel in
their high separation efficien-
cies but also in terms of ease
of operation, robust designs
and minimised maintenance
costs, making them the pre-
ferred technology for numerous
beneficiation plants worldwide.
Jones
®
WHIMS
MBE’s robust Jones
®
Wet High Intensity
Magnetic Separator (WHIMS) offers
a high throughput capability coupled
with simple maintenance and lower
energy consumption and can operate
at up to 13 000 gauss. The Jones is
ideally suited to treating feebly mag-
netic minerals with a particle range
from 20 microns up to 1,0 mm, while
its compact design allows the system
to be used in operations that call for a
small footprint.
In actual operation the Jones WHIMS
upgrades iron ores and other mineral
raw materials. More than 180 Jones
separators of different sizes have been
supplied throughout the world,
primarily separators of the type
DP 317 designed for nominal
capacity of 120 tph. Five differ-
ent models for throughput rates
from 200 tph to 400 kg/h (for
laboratory and pilot tests) are
available.
PERMOS MIMS
MBE’s PERMOS Medium-Inten-
sity Magnetic Separator (MIMS)
for dry and wet separation of
ferromagnetic and paramag-
netic ores and minerals, has
a broad working range outside
the drum that allows for dry
and wet magnetic separation of
coarse and fine ores and miner-
als, particularly high grade ores
of medium and high susceptibil-
ity at high throughput rates.
The PERMOS operates at
field intensities of 5 000 gauss
on the drum surface and meets
the demand for cost effective solutions
for many applications which are outside
the scope of traditional low-intensity
permanent magnetic separators, that
reach only a magnetic intensity of up
to 2 000 gauss on the drum surface.
Pneuflot
®
The company’s Pneuflot
®
technology
is attracting worldwide attention as a
flotation technology of the future. The
flotation cell improves product quality
and recovery, delivering lower capex
and opex as well as significantly lower
wear costs and higher efficiencies.
The biggest advantages of Pneuflot
are its reduction in required footprint
and ancillary equipment. The dimin-
ished process complexity also makes
Pneuflot much easier to manage than
conventional agitator cell circuits, while
offering a genuinely economic solution
not only for new plants, but also for
existing plants and expansions.
Screens
MBE’s vibrating screens have been
operating in the African mining industry
for the past 40 years. With products
for sizing, scalping, dewatering and
media recovery, these screens feature
an innovative side plate mounted drive,
making them lighter than those utilis-
ing vibrator motors. The company also
supplies screens with vibrator motors
where required, while its resonance
screens offer the benefit of low power
consumption. Each screen is designed
with sound mechanical features includ-
ing vibration damping, side plates, cross
members and the appropriate feed and
discharge chutes. All types of screening
