Solvent Extraction, Mineral Processing and Alumina Processing

Crud Processing Improvements Using ACORGA® CB 1000 Crud Busting Reagent

Operations that practice clay treatment of recovered organic aqueous remaining with the organic. As shown in Figure 5,
typically only utilize 0.1 – 0.3 wt% clay due to plugging an excess of 2% clay is required to restore the organic IFT
concerns. This is rarely sufficient to remove all surfactants (of this specific plant organic) to its maximum value.
from the organic, and the clay is often deactivated by

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Recovery Organic Clay Treatment Curve

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Interfacial Tension Time (dynes/cm)

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FIGURE 5:
27 Clay Treatment vs.
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Interfacial Tension
Clay Concentration (wt%)

The use of ACORGA CB 1000 efficiently separates the organic to be treated with the appropriate clay dosage
organic from the solids/aqueous emulsion, enabling the without deactivation of the clay.

Benefits of Higher Organic Quality

Pilot plant testing was completed to compare organic typical mechanical crud processing means. This work was
recovered by crud buster to organic recovered by completed using a 2E + 1S configuration at 6 lpm feed flow
and results are shown in Table 1.
Table 1. Pilot Plant Comparison

CB™ Processed Organic Typical Processed Organic

IFT (dynes/cm) 33.5.9 29.2
Extract PDT – Org Cont. (seconds) 51 229
Extract PDT – Aq Cont. (seconds) 63 66
Strip PDT – Org Cont. (seconds) 50 191
Dispersion Band – Org Cont. (% of org depth) 0% 61.2%
Organic Entertainment 34% decrease –
Aqueous Entertainment 18% decrease –
Cu:Fe Transfer Ration 1032 645

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IN PROCESS SEPARATION