Iron Ore Beneficiation Services: Process and Plant Development

Constant development is essential to staying competitive in ironmaking and steelmaking. With extensive experience in mineral processing and beyond, Primetals Technologies has a thorough understanding of the entire process route, product quality, and technical issues. Primetals Technologies focuses on providing a wide range of process design and engineering services to optimize the beneficiation process. Tailor-made solutions for beneficiation processes enable plant operators to produce the highest levels of concentrate, with particular emphasis on requirements for the direct reduction route for direct reduced iron (DRI).

Primetals Technologies offers industry-leading expertise and services for raw materials and products, including:

• Raw material assessment: Independent evaluation of the beneficiation potential of raw materials in combination with metallurgical process expertise. Identify the most suitable beneficiation routes and recommend enhancements to existing processes.
• Laboratory and pilot testing: Beneficiation testing on a small or large scale in close collaboration with world-renowned laboratories, institutes, and universities.
• Process and plant audits: Experts in metallurgy, engineering, operation, and automation carry out onsite audits of current production processes at the plant to identify potential for improvements.
• Process simulation: Mass balancing and simulation of current and future operational scenarios can be extended to the entire steel production route. Primetals Technologies developed the simulation tool m.simtop, which includes simulation models for each step of steel production, starting with raw materials.
• Engineering: Basic and detailed engineering services are provided at all stages of plant design.
• CAPEX and OPEX studies: Our evaluations are based on the objective selection of mineral processing equipment currently available on the market that best meets our customers' technical and economic requirements.

Benefits of Iron Ore Beneficiation Services by Primetals Technologies

• Optimization of the entire value chain in terms of CAPEX, OPEX, and product quality
• Identification of the best options for beneficiation routes, and recommendations for improvements to existing processes
• Extensive simulations, such as m.simtop—the proprietary simulation software solution from Primetals Technologies—, to test scenarios along the entire steel production route