Media handling systems

Standalone solutions to cost-effectively facilitate the fast and safe handling of media

Metso Media handling systems (MHS) are designed to cost-effectively facilitate the fast and safe handling of stirred mill media during a shutdown process for the mill maintenance activities. Our pre-engineered solutions deliver rapid, safe and scalable/optimized solutions for handling your media applications. The range of solutions for MHS includes Media pumping, Media charging and Media lifting systems.

Reduces shutdown time and improves efficiency

Reduces media handling activity and resources during a shutdown

Significantly improves safety

Removes 80% of hazards associated with the manual handling activities

Highly scalable

Serving single, twin or multiple mills, with a fixed system or mobile range (for either MPS and MCS)

Cost-effective

Provides the most optimum use of footprint, ease of house keeping, reduced OPEX with less labours, increase up time with reduced shut down periods and eliminates major project risk to the CAPEX investment.

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Media pumping system (MPS)

The Metso media pumping system (MPS) is used in ceramic media attrition mills (HIGmill™ and SMD). MPS eases the media handling and storage tasks before and after a mill shutdown for inspection or maintenance. A typical MPS is equipped with:

a media transferring device to move media
a screen to remove slurry particle and undersize media
a hopper/bin for storage

Media charging system (MCS)

The Metso Media charging system (MCS) handles steel media for Vertimills® before and after a mill shutdown for inspection or maintenance.

The first step in accessing a Vertimill for internal inspection and maintenance work is to drain the media into a floor sump. To refill media into a Vertimill®, a loader is used to reclaim media from the floor sump and load the used media onto the load-out pocket conveyor. The pocket conveyor moves media into the Vertimill® via a loading chute. The load-out pocket conveyor is mounted on a mobile base that can be relocated to suit the drain or refill function and position.

To load new media into multiple Vertimils®, the same pocket conveyor is used to elevate media with one transfer conveyor per mill with a diverter chute to direct media into the mill or onto the next conveyor to other mills. This combination for new media addition is called the Media distribution system.

Media lifting system (MLS)

The Metso Media lifting system (MLS) fulfills steel media handling objectives using conventional lifting in a dedicated path cost-efficiently without compromising safety.

MLS is an improved version to numerous existing methods of handling steel media. MLS consists of a kibble loading chute, dedicated kibble, load-out bin and optional a support structure with monorail and hoist.

The key difference between MLS and MCS is the throughput and scalability to handle multiple mills. MLS is a fixed system that can be used to serve one mill or two adjacent mills. With the automation system, MLS can handle both new and used media with the function of mass loading used media and regulating the dosing process of new media.