A BENCH SCALE PRESSURE REACTOR UNIT WITH DATA ACQUISITION AND CONTROL SYSTEM FOR CHEMICAL LEACHING OF MINERALS

摘要

A bench-scale pressure reactor system for extracting minerals in a leaching process, comprising: a batch reactor (1 ) heaving means for heating and continuous mixing of metals and minerals, the reactor comprising a charging funnel (2), a gas pressure application means (3, V2), said means comprising perforations and having side arms (4), a pressure sensor (6), a temperature detector (16) mounted on the reactor (1 ) being connected to PID-controllers (17, 18), a chiller unit (5), a valve (V3) for discharging the products, a sensor (9) for the determination of the amount of heating supply, data acquisition means (11 ) connected to a host computer (10) for collecting, processing and out-putting the on-line data and analyzing means to analyze the slurry and filtrate during the process implementation.