The Investigation of Settling Processes for Tailing Thickener in Oyu Tolgoi
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2020-06-08
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German Mongolian Institute for Resouce and Technology
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This bachelor thesis based on the research work of Oyu Tolgoi (OT) LLC that OT concentrator’s tailing thickener laundry for overflow water pipe scaling problem. OT concentrator plant is reused the overflow water from the tailings thickener and its recycling rate is at least 80 %. Tailing thickener plays the main role to produce clarified effluent and thickened sludge. The most considerable issue of performance tailing thickener is the sedimentation in which is the utilization of tailings; thus, it is very important to determine its settling process. This study
aimed to investigate the parameters that aspect the settling process of tailings solution. This thesis presents the results of a study conducted on settling processes of copper mineral tailings. Moreover, the following goals were expected to investigate the tailing solution characteristics, make assumptions about the scale formation causes on the case, and suggest scaling removal and preventing environmental way.