About Us
Clyde-WorleyParsons is a 50:50 joint venture, which combines the particulate solids conveying and injection technologies of Clyde Materials Handling, with the flash furnace process knowledge and expertise of WorleyParsons.
Clyde-WorleyParsons has developed an advanced flash furnace feed solution, which utilizes pulseless, dense phase, pneumatic transport of furnace feed materials to overcome the inherent poor performance and stability limitations of the conventional Loss-In-Weight feed systems currently on offer.
The amalgamation of these skills has resulted in the ability to offer burner feed and concentrate injection system solutions that can potentially provide copper producers with existing smelting facilities with a range of operational and economic benefits, which include:
- The ability to increase average furnace throughput;
- Improved system availability;
- Process stabilization and improved furnace performance;
- Reduced maintenance costs;
- Improved mixing of concentrate, flux and dust prior to injection;
- Greater accuracy and control of concentrate feed injection rate; and
- Control of concentrate combustion stoichiometry at the timescale of the flame and reaction shaft residence times.
The Clyde-WorleyParsons flash furnace feed solution will benefit not only those organizations seeking to deploy new smelting facilities but also those operations that are experiencing significant difficulties with existing mechanical screw, scraper-chain conveyor and airslide based systems.
Clyde Materials Handling is a leading, customer-driven provider of pneumatic conveying and injection solutions.
Clyde’s technology has powered a complex range of processes within the world’s leading organizations across the iron & steel, non-ferrous metals, gypsum, cement and consumer goods industries.
Clyde has created innovative applications that have the capability to pneumatically convey or inject substances used within modern manufacturing processes. For example, Clyde Materials Handling has been used for the injection of non-ferrous ore concentrates such as copper, nickel and platinum, directly into the molten metal in both bath and flash smelting pyrometallurgical processes.
Clyde has operations based in the UK, North America, South America, South Africa, India and China, complemented by an extensive global agency network. Visit www.clydematerials.com for more information.
WorleyParsons is a leading global provider of professional services to the energy, resources and complex process industries. Services include engineering, procurement, construction management, program management, asset support services and integrated / alliance services contracts. WorleyParsons has many years of experience and expertise in developing, implementing and optimizing complex process plants across the breadth of process industries encountered in the resources and energy sectors.
WorleyParsons has significant expertise in a range of technologies and processes utilized in the global pyrometallurgical industry. This includes a well developed understanding of the various burner feed technologies available to smelter operators and their potential impacts on burner and furnace performance. WorleyParsons is focused on delivering high added value and cost savings to the bottom line of customers’ businesses.
WorleyParsons has over 14,000 project services personnel operating out of 73 offices, based in 33 countries across the world. Visit www.worleyparsons.com for more information.