{"id":4544,"date":"2023-09-04T09:28:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T09:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/?p=4544"},"modified":"2023-09-04T09:28:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T09:28:32","slug":"weir-minerals-africa-pumping-innovation-underpins-geho-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/?p=4544","title":{"rendered":"Weir Minerals Africa : Pumping innovation underpins GEHO success"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The technical development of Weir Minerals\u2019 GEHO\u00ae constructive displacement pumps has ensured they play a key position in decreasing mines\u2019 environmental footprint.<br\/>The GEHO\u00ae pump vary is well-known in various pumping purposes including tailings, backfill, ore transportation and dewatering. Weir Minerals Global Product Manager for GEHO\u00ae optimistic displacement (PD) pumps, Erik Vlot, highlights the pumps\u2019 capacity to pump highly viscous slurry, allowing mines to conserve water. The power effectivity of pipeline transportation also helps reduce energy prices and reduces mines\u2019 carbon footprint.<br\/>\u201cThe basis of GEHO pumps\u2019 success is our ongoing attention to technical innovation and enchancment,\u201d says Vlot. \u201cThis also allowed us to be pioneers in the pumping of very acidic materials at high temperatures, corresponding to nickel slurry at greater than 200\u00b0C at a mine in Madagascar.\u201d<br\/>With their high capacity, GEHO\u00ae pumps transport bauxite or iron ore over tons of of kilometres, offering some of the value effective and sustainable switch strategies obtainable to the mining trade. These pumps have additionally performed an integral function in the success of a Weir Minerals paste resolution at Finland\u2019s largest open pit mine. Yara\u2019s Siilinj\u00e4rvi mine makes use of GEHO\u00ae pumps to move tailings from the plant, reaching the required beach slope on its tailings facility to fulfill its life-of-mine technique.<br\/>Backfilling is a vital technique for mining to attain safety and environmental goals, and GEHO\u00ae pumps have been enabling this work. In a North American platinum operation, the tools pumps over a thousand litres a minute of this viscous backfill materials \u2013 measuring 70% solids by weight \u2013 again into the mine\u2019s worked out areas.<br\/>In the context of deep mines, GEHO\u00ae pumps provide an environment friendly and reliable way of dewatering from nice depths, instead of utilizing multiple smaller pumps to switch water to surface. The highly effective GEHO\u00ae pump range can do that by pumping from the underside of a mine to the floor in just one raise \u2013 even over kilometres.<br\/>\u201cApart from the fee effectiveness of this resolution, an essential advantage is that it reduces the chance of one pump in a pumping chain failing, and disrupting the whole dewatering function,\u201d he says. \u201cIt also reduces the cost and upkeep necessities of having multiple pumping stations at different levels within the mine.\u201d<br\/>The popularity of GEHO\u00ae pumps has also been built on their reliability, he explains. This has resulted from Weir Minerals\u2019 ongoing research and development into its pumps\u2019 wear elements. This course of is based on an in-depth understanding of the entire pumping system during which the pump operates.<br\/>\u201cTaking into account how our pumps interact with these techniques, we focus on key features of the pumps such as the diaphragm and propelling liquid system,\u201d he says. The propelling liquid offers the barrier between the piston and the diaphragm ensuring that every one the transferring elements move in oil and never slurry.<br\/>He emphasises the importance of diaphragm dynamics and the want to management the volume of propelling liquid within the chamber.  <a href=\"http:\/\/fitting304.com\">\u0e40\u0e04\u0e23\u0e37\u0e48\u0e2d\u0e07\u0e21\u0e37\u0e2d\u0e43\u0e0a\u0e49\u0e27\u0e31\u0e14\u0e04\u0e27\u0e32\u0e21\u0e14\u0e31\u0e19<\/a>  is completed by way of the PLC control, to make sure that the diaphragm runs in the proper position.<br\/>\u201cRubber is good at bending, but if it stretches it can tear,\u201d he says. \u201cOur aim is to increase the replacement intervals between diaphragm replacements, helping mines to scale back each their downtime and their whole value of ownership.\u201d<br\/>The monitoring of GEHO\u00ae pumps\u2019 operation is performed by way of digital technology so that operators can keep abreast \u2013 in real time \u2013 of the pump\u2019s performance and situation. Weir Minerals\u2019 digital layer for these pumps is being rolled out to customers, informing the maintenance schedules and enhancing pump availability.<br\/>Vlot notes that Weir Minerals continues to innovate with the GEHO\u00ae pump range, and is even exploring prospects for transferring coarse ore to the floor from deep in a mine \u2013 as a less expensive choice to conventional hoisting methods.<br\/>\u201cVital to all our GEHO pump solutions is the Weir Minerals\u2019 global service community, making certain that wherever our pumps are operating there might be an skilled native service crew to help them,\u201d he concludes.<br\/>Share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The technical development of Weir Minerals\u2019 GEHO\u00ae constructive displacement pumps has ensured they play a key position in decreasing mines\u2019 environmental footprint.The GEHO\u00ae pump vary is well-known in various pumping purposes including tailings, backfill, ore transportation and dewatering. Weir Minerals Global Product Manager for GEHO\u00ae optimistic displacement (PD) pumps, Erik Vlot, highlights the pumps\u2019 capacity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4545,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544\/revisions\/4545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}