Conversion of an Existing Industrial Facility of Pellet Feed Filtration to Tailings Filtration
Thamiris Dias Silva Mascarenhas,
Michelle Lacerda Sales Marques,
Marconi Bitencourt Silva
et al.
Abstract:Since 2019, a new Brazilian directive has prohibited in the country the use of dams constructed by the upstream method and limited the use of those by the downstream method. From that, some iron ore wet processing plants that used to dispose their tailings into upstream constructions had to be redesigned to filter their own tailings using their existing process and equipment. This was the situation for at least one plant in the Iron Quadrangle Region, which will be analysed in this article. First, laboratory t… Show more
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