Sherritt Technologies’ testing facilities provide a complete array of equipment to perform pilot plant testing to develop, and demonstrate processes over a broad range of conditions. The facilities are staffed with skilled technical and professional personnel that draw upon the experience gained in well over 100 continuous pilot plant campaigns, as well as, from extensive commercial experience.
We support client projects with metallurgical testing of operations from feed preparation and comminution to finished metal production.
Sherritt Technologies has a wide range of equipment necessary to perform metallurgical pilot plant testing of many unit operations that are needed for hydrometallurgical flowsheets, including:
Feed Preparation
- Bulk crushing and screening equipment
- Batch and continuous ball/rod milling
- Batch vertical, stirred mill (attrition)
- Vibrating screens and hydrocyclones
- Thickeners
- Blending equipment
- Flotation cells
Pressure Hydrometallurgy
- Automated continuous multi-compartment pilot plant autoclaves with titanium or stainless steel construction with sufficient sampling options to generate wide range of commercial plant design data
- Batch autoclaves with automatic data logging, pressure control and temperature control
- Pressurized Letdown Systems
Atmospheric Circuits
- Atmospheric Leaching Circuits
- Neutralization Circuits
- Solution Purification and Precipitation Circuits
- Solid-Liquid separation equipment including pilot scale Thickeners and Filtration systems
- Solvent Extraction
- Flotation Cells
Metal Production
- Hydrogen Reduction Autoclaves for metal powder production
- Electrowinning equipment for production of metal cathodes