CRU Sulphur + Sulphuric Acid Conference & Exhibition 2023

During the conference the Metso will participate in the following aspects of the proceedings:

Marcus Runkel, Senior Product Manager - Fluid Bed Technology, will speak on the topic “More out of Acid and Ore: Acid and Metal Production, Circularity and the Energy Transition”

Collin Bartlett, Senior Sales Manager – Metals and Chemical Processing, will speak on the topic “The new normal in Project Implementation Learnings from Covid times”

More out of acid and ore: Acid and Metal Production, Circularity and the Energy Transition

Marcus Runkel | Hannes Storch | Collin Bartlett

Abstract

The need to “extract more from less’ is not a byword that sits well in the mining industry. Head grade degradation, basically processing ever more ore to produce ever less final product, is a fact of life. The energy transition is upon us and the demands for ever more non-ferrous and critical minerals requires us to rethink what we can do differently.

We intend to present our views on the renaissance of a technology value chain – the roaster-gas cleaning acid plant - widely used in the middle of the last century and its applicability to the current scenarios. This process chain is capable of utilising virgin pyrite ores as well as pyrite tailings, with a view to extracting valuable non-ferrous and critical minerals, as well as ‘regionalised’ sulphuric acid. When all of these commodity flows are considered as revenue streams, return on investment is, in many cases surprisingly positive – substantiating the claim that one can obtain ‘more out of ore’.

The new normal in Project Implementation Learnings from Covid times

Collin Bartlett | Hannes Storch | Andreas Klein

Abstract

The Covid pandemic may be looked back on as a watershed for what had been a traditionally stable business of project implementation for technology providers that support a wide range of process industries.

Today, the ability of a technology provider to obtain firm pricing with reasonable validity for third party equipment and fabrications is very limited indeed. Furthermore, obtaining firm logistics and construction pricing in overheated regions of the world is also further hampering technology companies offering firm pricing for based on EPS/EPC contract models.

This does not mean that the EPS/EPC contract model is dead, rather that the industry as a whole must acknowledge a need to evolve and that risk sharing in an uncertain world is critical to the survival of the model. The presentation includes some ideas and concepts solving the issue, ensuring that the industry has technology providers to rely on into the next century.