Optimized solids flocculation is critical to ensure process efficiency and product purity. By optimizing the solids’ flocculation process, impurity settling and filtration is accelerated which, in turn, improves recovery rates and product quality. Successful water recycling requires flocculation and the capture of fine particles into larger sized structures that improve tailing settling rates. Ideally, this is achieved by optimizing expensive flocculent dosage. Tracking the particle size and population of fine particles and particle aggregates is critical in order to optimize thickener efficiency and enable fast and complete water recycling. Attempts at measuring these delicate particle structures with offline techniques often lead to compromised results. Inline measurements, such as METTLER TOLEDO’s FBRM® and PVM®, are critical for optimizing tailings settling and water recycling whilst quickly and efficiently reducing the quantity, and therefore costs, of flocculent dosage.
METTLER TOLEDO has extensive industrial experience maximizing solid flocculation efficiency inline with FBRM® and PVM® real time particle characterization tools.
- FBRM® for in-process particle and flocculation measurement tracking the rate and degree of change in the number, dimension, and shape of particles and particle structures
- PVM® for real-time particle and droplet imaging and understanding