20.

Calculation of unknown parameters of flows 20 (Re-cleaner concentrate)

- Known parameters:

o Copper grade.
o Water specific gravity.

To close the water balance into the re-cleaner cells, the pulp specific gravity of the re-cleaner
concentrate will be calculated.

- In the excel cell “L32” (copper grade), type number “23.78”.

- In the excel cell “L37” (water specific gravity), type number “1000”.
- In the excel cell “L29” (solid mass flowrate), type “=(I32-H32)/(L32-H32)*I29” ( equation 16).
- In the excel cell “L31” (solid specific gravity), type “=(0.0005*L32^2+0.0259*L32+2.6728)*1000”
(equation 32).
- In the excel cell “L30” (solid volume flowrate), type “=L29/L31*1000”.
- In the excel cell “L33” (copper mass flowrate), type “=L29*L32*10”.
- In the excel cell “L35” (water mass flowrate), type “=I35+J35-H35”.
- In the excel cell “L36” (water volume flowrate), type “=L35/L37*1000”.
- In the excel cell “L39” (pulp mass flowrate), type “=L29+L35”.
- In the excel cell “L40” (pulp volume flowrate), type “=L30+L36”.
- In the excel cell “L41” (pulp specific gravity), type “=L39/L40*1000”.
- In the excel cell “K42” (solid percent), type “=100*L31*(L41-L37)/(L41*(L31-L37))” (equation 8).

21. Calculation of solver constraints

- In the excel cell “E46” (constraint 1), type “=E39-E40*E41/1000”.

- In the excel cell “E47” (constraint 2), type “=K29-L7-D7”.
- In the excel cell “E48” (constraint 3), type “=L7-(K32-D10)/(L10-D10)*K29”.
- In the excel cell “E49” (constraint 4), type “=I29-L29-H29”.

At this level, the non-optimized results are given in Table 5 as it appears on Excel spreadsheet.

22. Excel solver program

Excel solver program execution is as follows:

1) On the ‘Data’, in the ‘Analysis group’ click solver (if the solver command is not available, you must
activate the solver add-in).
2) In the ‘Set objective’ box, enter the cell reference “E46” of simulation constraint table.
3) Click “Value of” and then type the number “0” in the box.

Joseph Kafumbila
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