Metso Full portfolio Sustainable Flowsheet Explorer

Sustainable Flowsheet Explorer

The Sustainable Flowsheet Explorer (SFX) is a digital solution that enables the assessment, simulation, and comparison of technological alternatives on a flowsheet, providing valuable insights on energy consumption, water usage, GHG emissions, costs, metallurgical performance, and much more, within minutes.  
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Embedded Expertise
Technology trade-offs
Interactive Partnership
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A unique solution for flowsheet configuration

SFX streamlines the evaluation and comparison of technological alternatives, significantly reducing the time required for initial flowsheet assessments. Focusing on our Metso Plus portfolio, SFX centralizes key performance indicators (KPIs) on a single platform, providing clear visualizations that support informed decision-making from the outset of a project. This holistic approach enables a thorough evaluation and comparison of flowsheet configurations, facilitating seamless analysis. In collaboration with Metso experts, SFX enables sustainable flowsheet development.

Key features
Key features

Embedded expertise ​

  • Robust methodology embedding Metso know-how ​
  • Empowered by Metso’s proprietary process simulation software – HSC Chemistry® ​
  • Process modeling, equipment selection, and flowsheet development ​
  • Validated LCA methodology

Technology trade-offs ​

  • SFX reduces initial evaluation time from weeks to minutes, enabling rapid assessment of circuit and equipment alternatives​
  • Powerful modeling and simulation of process scenarios​
  • Comprehensive flowsheet evaluation of metallurgical performance, environmental footprint, and other relevant indicators to support informed decision-making

Collaborative interaction​

  • Designed for seamless collaboration with customers ​
  • Intuitive 3D visualizations for immersive and interactive process representation ​
  • Comprehensive visualization of key performance parameters at both circuit and full flowsheet levels

An interactive user experience

SFX’s web-based platform offers an intuitive and visually attractive 3D visualization of mineral processing flowsheets, from mine to metal. Build your process solution by entering the project site data, and selecting the technological options for different process sections, and within a few minutes you will be ready to assess the system’s key performance indicators. 

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Automation portfolio 

Explore the benefits of Metso’s automation portfolio. With SFX, users can assess the impact of various automation levels on performance across key process stages—grinding, flotation, regrinding, and dewatering. Furthermore, explores the impact of integrating different technologies across the concentrator, leveraging the Metso Plus portfolio to improve energy consumption, water use, and CO2 emissions.

Tailings Dewatering 

Evaluate Metso’s solutions for efficient water recovery from tailings, including various thickening technologies and advanced filtration systems. Tailored configurations allow customers to adapt these solutions to their feed properties and operational needs.  

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