Plant performance evaluations

EVALUATION AND OPTIMISATION
(PLANT AUDITS)

SGS provides complete prep plant performance audits. We have the expertise to design the program, perform the in-plant sampling washability work and the lab analysis required to measure the efficiency of your preparation equipment. We will prepare distribution curves for all the plant process equipment, generate a report detailing the performance and provide specific, workable recommendations to help you resolve any issues.

Optimising the performance of a coal prep plant can increase profits with only a small financial expense. Any improvements made to increase plant performance result in increased profits. Payback time is usually measured in weeks for such improvements, not years.

The following installations benefit from plant evaluations and optimisation:

• Newly-commissioned plants
• Plants that have experienced gradual changes in coal feed, have modified their coal processing equipment and/or have undergone recent personnel changes
• Existing operations that do not have a formal and systematic optimisation program

While we prefer to do such evaluation work in association with your plant personnel; when necessary, SGS can provide all the manpower and equipment required to complete the sampling, processing, sizing and assaying.