Coal process plants – Technology

BATEMAN’s products, services and new technology of interest to coal producers include:

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Jigging comeback in minerals dressing

There has been a big increase in the market for jigs producing clean saleable products by removing associated waste material. This is due to recent improvements making jigging a very effective means of separating particles of different densities in a homogeneous bed of granular material. Bateman Titaco owns the APIC Jig, one of the most efficient gravity separators. These jigs deal effectively and efficiently with both fine and coarse material, obtaining recoveries of better than 95 % for coarse materials and 90 % for fine materials. Their capacities range from 10 to 800 t/h and they are used to wash coals, upgrade non-metallics (diamond, garnet, etc.), recover ferroalloys from slags and upgrade a range of ores.

Enhancing jig performance

The APIC underbed air-pulsed jig effectively produces clean saleable products from raw materials by separaring particles of different densities. To further enhance performance APIC jigs can now be equipped with JIGSCAN.

Elbram train movers

At Richards Bay, BATEMAN has supplied three Elbrams – mobile train pushers – which move trains at exact and constant speeds through load out stations so that the train can be loaded accurately.

The APIC jig - leading jigging technology

The APIC jig is an air-pulsed gravity separator able to treat mineral and metal particles up to 80 mm in size, depending on density, and coal up to 150 mm. This significant advance in the capability of jigging methods to separate particles of different densities is the result of a joint development by TITACO (a BATEMAN company) and MINTEK. APIC jigs can be used for coal washing, recovery of ferroalloys from slag, upgrading metallic ores (e.g. Cr, Mn, Fe, Pt) and non-metallics (e.g. diamonds, garnet, corundum) and for washing of wastes.