Introduction

Process plants represent large capital assets and the operating efficiency is critical to ongoing profitability and survival. The plants have common equipment but the training and skills of the personnel determine if the continuous improvement culture and process optimisation results in positive outcomes of higher throughput and lower unit costs.

The Process Plant Optimisation course provides the basic knowledge, tools and techniques needed to drive an optimisation culture, explores the different optimisation processes currently conducted in the industry, provides information to assess benchmarking process plants. It provides strategies and methods that can be employed to start the process. A number of case studies will be used to provide practical examples where this has been achieved.

Course Benefits

Participants will learn how to:

• Understand the need for process improvement and ways to maximise production and minimise costs
• Benchmark plant performance with best practice and set standards
• Provide strategies and methods to develop  a workable action plant to optimise a mineral processing plant
• Identify cost savings involved and increases in revenue
• Develop proposals with budgets, schedules and the resources required
• Convince  management of  the need to optimise the process
• Monitor and assess the changes

Participants are provided with lecture slides of the course. The course assumes no prior knowledge and will provide an excellent understanding of Mineral Processing  Plant Optimisation and its benefits.

Speaker

Damian Connelly - Director/Principal Consulting Engineer
Mineral Engineering Technical Services
Damian has over 40 years experience as a Consulting Metallurgist. He has extensive experience in the gold, copper, lead, zinc, uranium and iron ore industries. His field of expertise lies in plant operations, feasibility studies, detailed design, and commissioning. He has been involved in many projects including engineering, audit, due diligence, tenders and expert witness work.

METS' training courses have been run both in Australia and overseas, and are highly regarded.

Who Should Attend?

This course is designed to provide key knowledge of Mineral Processing Plant Optimisation to mining personnel, mine managers, accountants, design engineers, mechanical engineers, project managers, process operators, metallurgical engineers, process engineers and process supervisors involved in mineral processing plants. It will provide methods and procedures to undertake process plant optimisation and the critical steps in undertaking this.
It will particularly assist those involved in managing or maintaining process plants and personnel involved in continuous improvement.

Course Programme

• Introduction
• Auditing the Process Plant
• Benchmarking
• Continuous Improvement
• Recognizing Opportunities
• Optimisation in Crushing Plants
• Optimisation in Grinding Circuits
• Optimisation in Floatation Circuits
• Managing the Risk and Reliability of Process Plants
• Action Planning
• The Economics of Mineral Processing Plant optimisation
• Convincing Management
• Monitoring and Assessing the Changes

  Process Plant Optimisation Course Brochure 2009