工业矿产

Smelter Complex

400,000 tpa ilmenite smelting complex for treating beach sands at Richards Bay, South Africa.  The end products are Sorelmetal (high purity pig iron) and a high titanium dioxide content slag.  Facilities include: a roaster plant, a coal charring plant, a smelter with two, 6 electrode-in-line furnaces of 105 MVA rating each and a slag processing plant.

Scope of Services:

• Engineering, construction supervision, commissioning and start-up for the smelter complex.
• Assistance to Owner’s team for project and construction management.

Project Highlights:

• Design (conceptual through to detail engineering), construction and start-up of a greenfield plant.
• Highest powered smelting furnaces of their type in the world.

Project Cost: R 250 million (1975) for the total project, including the mine and mineral separation plants for extraction of rutile, zircon and ilmenite concentrate, which was done by others.2 stack flues

Client: Qit-Fer et Titane Inc.

Location: Richards Bay, South Africa

Start: Preliminary Engineering: 1974

Completion: Furnace Start-up: 1978