State-of-the-art process design

Mineral Salt Exploration

Mineral Salt Extraction

Mineral Salt Processing

Sustainability in Mineral Salt Extraction and Processing
Process Design
Process Engineering
Bulk Material Handling
Final Product Packing
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Equipment sizing, from engineering to field proven; thickener unit

 

Product Experiences in ERCOSPLAN Projects:

  • Potassium Chloride (MOP)

  • Potassium Sulphate (SOP)
  • Potassium Magnesium Sulphate
  • Nitrogen and Potassium Fertilizers (NK)
  • Salt (NaCl)
  • Magnesium Compounds
  • Synthetic Carnallite
  • Potassium Carbonate
  • Sodium Sulphate (Glauber’s Salt)
  • Calcium Chloride
  • Bromine, Bromine Salts
  • K - Nitrate
  • Iodine, Iodine Salts
  • Lithium, Lithium Salts

Round clarifier

Flotation plant
 
Process design is the starting point of every project for processing plants, no matter whether it is a new plant, a capacity increase or a modernisation project. The result of the process design is the guideline for the complete project development, thus special care has to be taken.

ERCOSPLAN GROUP OF COMPANIES

has more than half a century of experience in process design throughout the mineral salt industry. More than 500 projects treating more than 40 products have been handled by our engineers.

Continuous Monitoring of new developments and cooperation with reputable universities and equipment suppliers enable us to always offer our services based on most modern know-how. Our highly motivated team, further educating themselves on a regular basis, is our most valuable resource and the key to quality and customer satisfaction.

Our services comprise, among others

  • Process Design

  • Process Optimization

  • Mass and Heat Balances

  • Dimensioning of Equipment

  • Laboratory and Pilot Plant Tests

  • Supervision of Start Up

Using modern software tools and our know-how regarding dissolution equilibriums incorporated in complex calculation tools we design processes for the processing of ore, bittern and brine from solution mining and natural lakes using the process steps

  • mechanical treatment (dry and wet milling, screen settling, stream settling, flotation, mechanical debrining, compaction)

  • thermal treatment (hot and cold leaching, evaporation and crystallization, drying)

  • chemical treatment (decomposition reactions, precipitation reactions, bromine and iodine extraction, gas – liquid reactions for carbonisation, exchange of salts)

 

 

Process design, optimisation of water consumption