Mining and Processing operations extract staggering amounts of mineral ores for eventual processing through different refining stages. The associated heavy duty and often continuous loads exert enormous strain on plant equipment surfaces at each processing stage.
Moreover, operations should also handle the increasingly problematic overburden, which as waste material has no value but represents a major factor in the wear of plant components.
DGC in alliance with Kalenborn provide protection for the environmental and heavy industries with wear-resistant linings which have excellent abrasion and impact resistance. The alliance provides custom design, manufacture, delivery, and installation services for its materials to meet customers’ specific abrasion, impact and corrosion problems. This applies in particular to industrial plants handling raw material processing as well as, transport, storage including the processing of ores, sand, slag, coal, or recycled materials.
Numerous mining companies around the world choose our wear protection solutions to help them reduce their operating costs. This article gives a brief overview of our Wear & Abrasion Resistant Linings for Mining and Processing Industries.
EXTRACTION AND MILLING OF RAW MATERIALS In open-cast and underground mining, wear protection linings for loading buckets, lorries and stationary and mobile conveyors represent an important investment in equipment reliability. Our Wear & Abrasion Resistant Linings also provide long-lasting wear protection with feeder chute and housing linings specifically designed for ore and raw materials.
PROCESSING PLANTS
Processes involved in the milling and grading of extracted ores or minerals cause wear in the machinery used for those mining operations, as does the subsequent process of separating the valuable material from the raw stone. Our Wear & Abrasion Resistant Linings protect mills, chutes, hydrocyclones and sorters from the particular stress conditions to which they are exposed in each production process. Wear resistant materials like fused cast basalt and ceramics serve as robust lining materials to protect hydraulic conveyor lines that are used to transport slurries in pumping circuits. Besides mining, our range of customized wear protection solutions are used in other production areas, including operations such as pelletizing and sintering.
WEAR PROTECTION FOR CYCLONES
Along with the hardness of the materials being sorted, flow rate is a major factor that affects wear. In cyclones, particles sometimes reach significant speeds, which cause tremendous wear. Our wear protection linings that are tailored for protecting cyclones are not only strong but also extremely lightweight, in order to add as little as possible to the overall weight of the equipment component.