SEPTEMBER 2014

1. Packaged Solutions from Weir Minerals India

3. 140 Weir Minerals India valves exported to Zambia

In this issue:

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Weir Minerals is committed to delivering market-leading products and services. Our whole project, whole process solutions are designed to meet both technical and commercial challenges of customers operating within the global mining and minerals processing industry, sand & gravel, power and general industry.

Our comprehensive portfolio consists of delivering and supporting a wide range of slurry equipment solutions, including pumps, valves, hydrocyclones, wear-resistant linings, and de-watering products. These high performance products are designed and manufactured to meet the highest specifications – for robust and reliable use in the world’s most demanding environments.

Packaged Solutions from Weir Minerals IndiaThe slurry equipment solutions from Weir Minerals India are well established in the market, with their superiority reflecting in hydraulic designs, wear, corrosion and abrasion-resistant materials. Weir Minerals products lead the world in slurry handling with various applications across industrial processes, such as lining a grinding mill, pumping highly abrasive slurries, isolating slurry pipelines with heavy duty slurry valves, or using our cyclones to carry out a critical classification operation. Used in some of the most corrosive and abrasive environment across

the world, Weir Minerals products are proving their expertise where it counts – environments where a toxic combination of wear and corrosion demands only the toughest and technologically advanced products. From mineral processing units, thermal power plants, sand dredging, chemical & fertiliser to general industries, customers derive considerable value from Weir Minerals products in the form of longevity, capacity, efficiency of operations, and a low cost of ownership.

Weir Minerals India has now combined its product strengths with engineering expertise to offer

comprehensive engineering and product solutions to customers

in various applications, such as slurry handling and transportation, comminution, sizing, concentration, de-watering, or a combination of these processes. In addition, it also offers

upgrading plant processing capacity for optimal results.

Often, the project challenge of mineral classification or handling

high abrasive slurry is complex and requires engineering expertise, beyond just proven products.Packaged Solutions | Cycle

The expertise requires a combination of product design and engineering, process expertise, optimal selection of equipment, erection and commissioning, operating and maintenance of the products to deliver the right economics for a profitable operation. The benefits derived from such a package, as a solution, deliver considerable value to customers.

Working in collaboration with customers, engineering consultants, and within the realm of project constrains, Weir Minerals India’s engineering team are developing solutions fitted for the best results and optimal resource utillisation. To offer such solutions to customers, Weir Minerals India is backed by global expertise in mineral processing, an in-house engineering services team to develop the right solution, project management capabilities, apart from an extensive range of global products offering (crushers, high pressure grinding roll, mill liners, attrition cells, classifiers, sizing and de-watering screens, dense media and hydro cyclones, slurry pumps, heavy duty slurry valves, rubber lining for pipeline and tanks, and rubber hoses).

Some of the largest corporates in the country trust Weir Minerals India, proving the company’s packaged solution capability. A leading steel

producer and exporter entrusted Weir Minerals India to commission a slurry handling system within its prestigious 600 TPH iron ore beneficiation plant in Rajasthan. The project included design, engineering, supply, and supervision of erection and commissioning of several products, such as slurry pumps, valves, hydro cyclones, rubber-lined pump boxes, rubber-lined distributors for magnetic separator, interconnecting hoses, and rubber-lined pipeline. Weir Minerals India engineers successfully collaborated with the client and consultants to deliver the project.

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For a top minerals business house in Andhra Pradesh, Weir Minerals India provided the solution of slurry transportation covering a 2 km distance. The system transported 75 MTPH sand from their pre-concentration plant (PCP) to minerals separation plant (MSP), replacing the costly road transport method. The project was a turnkey solution and involved design, manufacture, and commissioning of a long-distance PCP-MSP sand transportation pipeline system. The solution included slurry preparation for pumping and subsequent dewatering. The solution had a combination of products, including series pumping with high pressure AHPP pumps, cyclone system for de-watering/stacking arrangement, Isogate® knife gate and pinch valves for controlling the slurry with fail close/fail open options and feedback signals, return water and gland seal water system, rubber lined pump boxes and pipeline with necessary motor control center (MCC), instrumentation system and remote transfer unit (RTU).

For a leading mining company in Rajasthan, Weir Minerals India provided a solution to upgrade plant processing capacity from 4000 TPD to 5072 TPD with cyclone feed pumps, hydro cyclones, rubber-lined pump boxes, along with hoses and spools. The project included design, engineering, and supervision of erection and commissioning.

Concept / Pre-Feed

Preliminary GA’sPreliminary P&ID’sPreliminary LayoutsEstimation & PFD Support

3D Modeling of Structural PlatformsLegacy Data into Intelligent P&ID’sAs-build DrawingsPlant Modification

Equipment Lists & Data SheetsSizing Calculations 3D Plant ModelingIntelligent P&ID’s from PFD’sPiping Design

Bill of Materials Material Take Off’sNozzle Orientation Diagrams Piping & Equipment GA’sPipe Spool DrawingsPiping AssembliesDetailed DrawingsPiping Layouts & 3D Piping Modeling Pipe Stress Analysis

Sustenance Engineering

Front End Engineering

& Design (FEED)

Detailed Design

Plant Engineering

Packaged Solution I Expertise

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Slurry transportation

Mill circuit optimisation

Beneficiation packages

Crushing and screening

Washing plant systems

140 Weir Minerals India valves exported to Zambia

Weir Minerals India has shipped a critical order of 140 valves to Zambia for an extensive project. This is the second order that Weir Minerals has undertaken for this reputed mining and metals company.

The valves order includes the Hydraulic Package of 7 valves of 24” WBP hydraulic valves and 133 of the Pneumatic package worth over INR 5 crore.

PneumaticValve model

Quantity Actuation One valve - One IP66 enclosure with instrumentation

Instrumentation details

SMC make IP66 SS enclosure

SMC make IP56 Junction box

SMC make solenoid valve - SY9240-5DZE-04

SMC make AFR - AW40-04BCGH

Turck make proximity switch - BI8U-M18-AP6X

SMC make speed controller

Parker SS fittings

Quick connects and Glands

SS TAG plates on Cabinet and Valve

20 meter (10 + 10) nylon tubing between actuator and enclosure fixture and other fittings

02” WS 1 Pneumatic

10” WS 9 Pneumatic

12” WHP 2 Pneumatic

12” WS 12 Pneumatic

14” WS 2 Pneumatic

16” WS 7 Pneumatic

20” WBP 8 Pneumatic

3” WS 13 Pneumatic

4” WHP 2 Pneumatic

4” WS 36 Pneumatic

6” WS 20 Pneumatic

8” WS 21 Pneumatic

Grand Total 133