Mainland Machinery ships large xanthate mixing-feed system
Zeroday chemical systems partner Mainland Machinery has shipped a large PAX (potassium amyl xanthate) mixing-feed system to a Caribbean flotation mill. Based on Zeroday’s Vale Thompson Manitoba mill PAX mixing system design, this system additionally incorporates a day tank with transfer and dosing pumps.
Key system design criterion and elements include:
- 2600 gallon mix tank, 3100 gallon day tank
- Full stair and platform access to xanthate hopper, mix tank and day tank
- Capable mixing 10-30% solutions
- Mixer, pumps, piping and valves optimally designed for trouble free performance
- Vented as one unit to control CS2 emissions, CS2 is a known neurological hazard, generated by constant xanthate solution breakdown
- System captures fugitive xanthate dust when dumping
- Collected vent gases scrubbed with carbon for enhanced CS2 and organic safety
- All motors NEMA 4x rated
- Motorized supersack hoist for placement on bag breaker and dumping into hopper
- Mix tank recirculation-solution transfer to day tank pump
- Full tank level monitoring
- Tanks and system components are highly accessible
The Zeroday-Mainland Machinery partnership supplies optimum mixing and feeding system designs for explosive gas generating chemicals including xanthates, sodium sulfide (Na2S) and sodium metabisulfite (MBS – Na2S2O5). These are rigorously designed and built to maximize health and safety conditions and meet code requirements.
Mainland has engineering offices and fabrication shops in Abbottsford, BC Canada.
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