Project Details
Client – BCL Mine, Botswana
Estimated Project Cost – BWP 900,000.00
Designs start date – March 16, 2015
Design Completion – June 27, 2015
Project Outline
The project was to rebuild and modernise the Flash Furnace to be able to treat ‘toll concentrates’ from different parts of the globe which require higher operating temperatures to smelt.
G4 Consulting Engineers Mechanical Division was engaged to carry out the Design & Detailing of a new Internal Cooling Water (ICW) Pump Station for the Flash Smelter Furnace.
Project Description
The scope of work for ICW Pump Station for BCL Flash Smelter Furnace included the following
- Sizing of the cooling water supply pumps
- Sizing of hot water return submersible pumps
- Sizing of all pipelines
- Sizing of pump house including designs for pump bases and all associated civil and structural work
- Design of bases for the two 200m3 hot water tanks in the pump house
- Sizing and selection of lifting equipment required for pumps and motors
- Coordination with cooling Tower suppliers
- Coordination with water treatment specialist
- Design and detail of the entire cooling system including layout of equipment in the pump house, layout of all piping, sizing of orifice plate required to achieve specific flows to the smelter cooling water headers and arrangement of submersible pumps in the hot water sump.
- Production of detailed installation drawings, and equipment specifications.