Protecting Surfaces Against Severe

Sliding Abrasion

Extremely Hard Surfaces Provide the Best

Performance
Conventional Technology Benefits
- Rubber Lining - IMPACT
- Ceramic Tile Lining – High Velocity Sliding
- Hard Metal Welding – High Hardness
- Special Hard Metal Alloys – High Hardness

All Approaches Have Some Limitations:

- Cost
- Speed of Repair
- Limited Impact Resistance
- Not Repairable

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 Erosion

This is fluid flow enhanced wear with or without entrained

solids in the flow stream. The flow is typically of moderate
to high velocity or is turbulent. The stress is therefore due
to higher flow rates but with low applied loads (entrained
solids).
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 Grinding
Grinding // Gouging
Gouging

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 Impact
Impact

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 Design of Ceramic Reinforced
Composites for Severe Abrasion

Combines the Wear Resistance of Ceramics

With the Benefits of Composite Technology
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 Design of Ceramic Reinforced
Composites for Severe Abrasion

Maximum Physical Reinforcement

 Minimum Exposed Matrix to Abrasion
 Maximum Wear Resistance
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Visual comparison between ARC and
other traditional coatings for
abrasion

ARC MX1 Competitive System

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 Resulting Properties of the
Engineered Ceramic Composite

Ceramic Epoxy Resulting

Reinforcement + Matrix = Composite
 Abrasion Excellent  Good  Excellent
Abrasion
 Brittle / Cracking  Tough / Impact
 Energy
Resistant
Absorber
 Hard to Mold and  Easily Shaped
 Moldable
Shape and Molded
 Poor Adhesion  Excellent
 High Temperatures  Excellent  Moderate
 Moderate
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 Ventilation
Ventilation Fans
Fans for
for Mine
Mine Shafts
Shafts Protected
Protected
against
against Corrosion
Corrosion and
and imbalance
imbalance

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 Rotary
Rotary feeder
feeder unit
unit protected
protected by
by MX1
MX1
and
and ARC
ARC 855
855

Units lasting 1 year before

Being taken out of service for
touchup versus <12 weeks for
unprotected surfaces
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 Rotary
Rotary feeder
feeder unit
unit protected
protected by
by
MX1
MX1 and
and ARC
ARC 855
855

Molded internals

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 Rotary
Rotary feeder
feeder unit
unit protected
protected by
by MX1
MX1
and
and ARC
ARC 855
855

Drum after 1 year

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 Rotary
Rotary feeder
feeder unit
unit protected
protected by
by
MX1
MX1 and
and ARC
ARC 855
855

End caps and rotary unit

after 1 year in service

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 Acidic
Acidic slurry
slurry in
in tin
tin mining
mining damaged
damaged
rubber
rubber impellor
impellor inin 2-3
2-3 months
months

Damaged rubber lining

Impellor after removal

of rubber liner

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 Impellor
Impellor life
life extended
extended by
by 3
3 times
times to
to
6+
6+ months
months
Impellor repaired prior
to preparing and coating

ARC MX4 coated

surface with ARC 855
topcoat

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 Location of slurry pumps handling +6 mm, 75% solids
Niobium slurry

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 Niobec Mines – Slurry Pump

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12”x10” slurry pump rebuilt with MX1 replacing Linatex rubber lining
which was lasting 3-4 months now last 12-15 months

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 Niobec Mines – Slurry Pump

 Repair and maintenance costs reduced

from USD$ 25,400.00/year/pump to
USD$9,700.00/year/pump.
 $4,200.00 of MX1 consumed per pump
 Increased flow rate for pump from 5,000
liters/minute to 15,000 liters/minute.

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 Zambian
Zambian Consolidated
Consolidated Copper
Copper ––
Mufulira
Mufulira Mine
Mine
Dust extraction fan, fan casing
sala-pump feed box, ball mill
feed box, hydroseal pump,
cyclone (upper and lower) cone,
Flyght light pump lower diffuser

Rubber linings were lasting

<4 months and required
shipment to offsite locations
for repairs often taking 4-6
Weeks before parts were
returned
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 Cyclone
Cyclone parts
parts and
and flume
flume lines
lines
coated
coated with
with MX1
MX1

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