Automation and Digitalization for Metals refining plants
Automation and digital solutions provide a vital building block for the development of state-of-the art metals refining plants. Our unique combination of technical and digital capabilities, expertise to deliver and support during operations enables for our customers a competitive advantage and peace of mind to operate over the life cycle of the plant.
Our digital portfolio ranges from simulation and modelling applications to automation and advanced process control tools, sensors and intelligent instruments designed specifically for the industry, digital services such as training and connected analytics.
Improve process performance, production capacity, and production quality
Reduce energy consumption, environmental impact, and operation and maintenance costs
Provide operator training with advanced simulation technology. Improve preventive maintenance planning and execution with equipment condition monitoring
Gain valuable process insights through our connected analytics services
The process advisor helps standardize operation between shifts, leading to more consistent operations and better process efficiency.
Alumina calcination process twin
The digital process twin allows integration of process models in the production process, benefiting in more efficient plant operation and resulting in lowest energy consumption.
BeltGuard (for steel belt sintering)
A visual and machine vision enhanced steel belt monitoring system that provides alerts of damages and enables predictive maintenance.
Calciner Optimizer
Ensures operational stability by continuously assessing process variables, automatically detecting and correcting detrimental process fluctuations, and calculating possible operational improvements.
It is in-situ measurement system that helps to minimize gold solution losses in carbon-in-pulp (CIP) and carbon-in-leach (CIL) circuits by enabling reliable and repeatable online monitoring of carbon concentration.
An advanced tankhouse monitoring system that automatically measures electrolyte temperature and voltage in individual cells. CellSense enables rapid response to process disturbances, improved temperature control, and provides an early warning of serious operating problems such as low flow levels or critical short counts.
The CIL Optimizer controls the gold CIL (Carbon-in-leach) circuit to achieve optimal processing conditions at all times in order to maximize the recovery of gold from the ore. The application monitors and controls carbon concentrations automatically in each of the reactors according to continuous measurement data from CarbonSense® probes.
CloudSense options for reactors
Instrument for measuring the level of suspended solids at the upper part of a reactor, allowing for optimization of the suspension homogeneity.
Courier HX
The Courier HX ensures consistent sampling and analysis for hydrometallurgy process management and monitoring. This results in savings in assaying and metallurgical sampling costs, while ensuring repeatability for accurate analysis.
DispersionSense is a continuous measurement of organic/dispersion and dispersion/aqueous inter-phases, replacing manual measurements and allowing for a view inside a settler and optimization of the process.
Dynamic training simulator for Roasting plants
Training simulator for iron ore pelletizing plants enables training and certification of operators in a risk-free virtual plant environment.
A quick and responsive burner monitoring solution that enables good control and increased on-line availability. Improves recovery, enables longer furnace campaigns, and decreases energy consumption.
An intelligent solution for monitoring furnace refractory linings to reduce unplanned shutdowns, improve maintenance planning, and extend the lifespan of the lining.
Essential software toolkit for process research, development, design, and digitalization, as well as for estimating process efficiencies, yields, and environmental footprints.
Using HSC-Sim, the process simulation module of the HSC Chemistry software, our processes can be modeled to simulate various operating conditions or changes in raw materials. For a commercial process, this is typically enriched with experimental data from our labs, testing the real raw material.
LanceMotion
LanceMotion provides the operator with live feedback on the Ausmelt lance behaviour, providing feedback allowing optimal process control and feedback on process performance.
LancePyro
The lance pyrometer is used for non-contact continuous temperature measurement of the molten bath within the Ausmelt TSL Furnace.
LugSense
LugSense is a digital automatic anode lug inspection system, which uses 3D machine vision with laser accuracy to determine if the lugs are up to your specification.
MeltGuard
An automated and intelligent system for monitoring furnace melt levels, temperature measurements and automatic sampling improving work hygiene and safety as well as increased feedback frequency to process control.
Metrics for Roasting-Acid plant
The Metrics for Roasting to Acid plants, provides live operational and maintenance performance dashboards, deviations vs. design, overall plant efficiency and preventive maintenance advice.
MixGuard
Automated mixture sampling and measurement of plasticity and moisture for reliable online prediction of green pellet properties.
MouldSense
Ensure anode quality and find faults in copper molds during casting with the on-line Metso MouldSense system.
Plant simulation-based process advisors for iron ore pelletizing plants. Tools monitor the plant operation in real time and provide operational assistance and guidance towards an optimized process operation.
PORS for acid plant operability, reliability and safety
Meet operational targets and improve the safety of your operations. The Metso PORS system incorporates our process know-how to improve plant operation, reliability, and safety. The system helps plant operators to identify and prevent potentially hazardous situations and ensures plant managers meet their productivity targets.
The pressure oxidation (POX) Optimizer controls the POX circuit based on instrument and analysis data from the process. The system predicts process behavior and automatically adjusts the operating parameters within strict safety tolerances for optimal efficiency and safe operation while achieving given performance targets.
ProfileScan for Steel Belt Sintering
Monitors the thickness of the pellet layer and ensures optimal and stable pellet bed thickness.
Achieve higher performance of your metallurgical plant with the Proscon process control system, as well as improve operational safety and working conditions.
The process advisor helps standardize operation between shifts, predict batch endpoints and scrap charging, thus leading to more consistent operations and better process efficiency.
Roaster Optimizer
Ensure operational stability and automatically detect and correct detrimental process fluctuations, keeping your plant running at optimum efficiency and increasing its capacity.
The digital process twin allows integration of process models in the production process, benefiting in more efficient plant operation under challenging process and feed conditions. It allows simulation of process adjustments before applying to the operation.
SandSense
Instrument for measuring the level of settled solids at the bottom of a reactor, allowing for optimization of the solids mixing inside a tank and indicating sanding/solids accumulation.
Sentinel for smelting furnaces
The monitors the cooling waters of a furnace and automatically warns operators of abnormal situations.
A short circuit detection system mounted on a moving crane that enables to increase the production efficiency in Tankhouse through early hot-spot detection, typically offered with CellSense.
Smelting Information Management System
Gives your process experts the information they need to make the right decisions to effectively plan your operations and prevent unwanted disturbances.
The process advisor helps standardize operation between shifts, leading to more consistent operations and better process efficiency.
Virtual Experience Training
Gain valuable experience of operating a process with continuously changing process conditions in a risk-free environment with the simulator-based advanced learning solution that is both time and cost-effective.
Maximizes removal efficiency during upset conditions, improves availability, and increases material protection and integrity during low load conditions in plastic units.
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