Scott Doig

FloCEP® is commercialising the PROmotion® technology platform which is a step change in dealing with multiphase flows within a pipe or device. The patented technologies have been developed in a rigorous R&D program extending over five years, has been proven over more than four year’s continuous operational use in two mineral processing plants in Western Australia. The operational installation in hydro-cyclone clusters has demonstrated outstanding benefits in increased availability, reduced operating costs and improved downstream performance. Installations in pipe bends demonstrate outstanding increases in the life of bends that have been otherwise subject to severe erosive wear. The base technology platform known as PROmotion® is applied to re-blend the phases in a multiphase flow, just before a point where having uniform (pseudo-homogeneous) flow is critical to optimal operation. That is, typically before a bend, distribution manifold, sample point or chemical injection point in the process stream. There are no moving parts and there is no additional pressure drop in the line. The suite of applications by FloCEP: FLOdistributor – efficient flow stream splitting to ensure balanced solids distribution FLOprep – prepares a flow stream by pre-conditioning the dense phase FLOdose – enables dosing directly into a stream in a low shear zone MAXbend – addresses the cause of pipe erosion utilising the kinetic energy of the pipe flow

Maxbend has developed an alternative to the dependence on pipe bend wear linings for process on line cycles. The task undertaken was to address the cause of the problem and not the symptoms; without transferring wear to another point and no negative pressure impact on the pipe system. Maxbend can be made from any product and to any pipe work specification; this has in turn given Maxbend options in flow conditioning across many areas of process plants. This product can be applied to existing circuits without the need to change pumps etc.