Project Profile: Acland CHPP 2 Upgrade
Project Start Date: 1st Quarter 2009 (Q3 FY 2009)
Project Finish Date: 4th Quarter 2009 (Q2 FY 2010)
Plant Description
- Currently at 350thp CHPP
- The CPP is a single stage DMC Spiral facility
- Coarse reject are conveyed to a reject bin located on the ROM pad
- Products are stockpiled on the ground or in a road train loud out bin.
Client Need
- A facility to process 550tph
- A facility that can process siderite (Iron Stone)
- A system to reduce the load on the thickener
- Raw water system modification to alleviate mine pump and fire pump starvation.
Solution
- Install new pumps or re-speed existing pumps
- Installation of new tertiary sizer with a larger diameter roll
- Install a larger maintenance hoist in the sizing station
- Install a spiral reject dewatering station to alleviate the loading on the thickener
- Installation of a raw water tank and submersible pump in the raw water system.
Outcome
- Contract awarded to Sedgman in January 2009.

