METSIM - Applications

METSIM

Applications

METSIM can be used to model many industrial applications:

Industrial Minerals and Chemicals

Comminution, Mineral Beneficiation

Heap Leaching, Hydrometallurgy

Pyrometallurgy, Coal Preparation

Power Generation, Pulp and Paper

Industrial Minerals, Waste Treatment

METSIM is currently being used worldwide by hundreds of engineers to model a wide range of chemical and metallurgical processes:

Copper, gold and silver heap leaches

Incinerators for military wastes

Processes at a superfund site

Electric furnace for EAF dust

Selenium decontamination process

Chloride process for titanium dioxide

HCl process for high purity alumina

Rare earth solvent extraction processes

Large-scale potash solar ponds

100,000 ton per day grinding circuit

Potash, soda ash and phosphate plants

Dynamic model of lead refining

Sulfuric acid plants

Aggregate and gravel plants

Copper, moly, lead, zinc concentrators

HCl leach and magnesium electrolysis

Zinc and gold pressure leach plants

FeCl3 leach plants for molybdenum

NH3 leach process for brass scrap

Placer and CIP gold cyanidation plants

Uranium acid/carbonate leach mills

Outokumpu and INCO flash smelters

Copper, lead, zinc, nickel smelters

Precious metal and copper refineries

Dense media coal preparation plants

Nickel hydromet and smelting processes

Magnesium and aluminum processes

Direct iron ore reduction processes

Beryllium and indium processes

METSIM can model these unit operations:

Bins, Conveyors, FIFO LIFO Stockpiles

Breakers, Crushers, Impactors

Autogenous, SAG, Rod and Ball Mills

Hydrocyclones, Screens, Classifiers

CCDs, Clarifiers, Filters, Thickeners

Ponds, Pumps, Sumps, Tanks

Mixers, Splitters, Distributors

Equilibrium Stage Reactors

Stoichiometric, Free Energy Reactors

Evaporators, Crystallizers

CIP, CIL, Solvent Extraction

Carbon and Ion Exchange Columns

Flotation and Electrochemical Cells

Heap, Vat and Agitation Leaching

Autoclaves, Boilers, Solar Ponds

Pierce Smith and CMT Converters

Blast, Reverb, Flash, Isasmelt Furnaces

Roasters, Dryers, Kilns, Incinerators

Heat Exchangers, Flash Separators

Absorbers, Strippers, Cooling Towers

ESPs, Baghouses, Scrubbers

Dense Media Baths, Drums and Vessels

Dense Media Cyclones and Screens

Gravity Jigs, Spirals and Tables

Air Cyclones, Magnetic Separators