Innovative Metallurgical Solutions Limited A “Clean-Tech” Pyro-Process Solution for the Mineral & Mining Industry “Dust to Dollar$”
Innovative Metallurgical Solutions Limited
Innovative Metallurgical Solutions Limited is an operating company utilising in-house developed processes. With proprietary technology for treating the waste streams from mining and smelting operations whereby the valuable metal content is recovered while the potentially hazardous waste is converted to an environmentally-inert slag.
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Innovative Metallurgical Solutions Limited
The technology is broadly applicable: virtually all mining & smelting works creates waste in the form of dust, fines or slag. IMS utilising this technology provides a very highefficiency and high yield process ideal for smelting primary ore, fines and waste streams on a small to medium scale. It is ideally suited for environmental and sustainable development initiatives. It is a “clean tech� process which can beneficiate smaller resources at source.
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Innovative Metallurgical Solutions Limited
Process methodology – Proven and independently audited for verification. Can smelt primary ores, waste streams and fines (without the need for pelletization or agglomeration). Environmental clean-up in situ. Robust hardware, small AC electric arc furnaces ranging from 1 – 5 MVA. Static and or mobile. Batch processing, better efficiencies and control. Flexible and adaptable, can process a host of minerals with very short change-over times including ferro-alloys & base metals.
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Red Mud Clean Up - EU funded programme. Utilising IMS processes for the clean up of the Alumina waste material – Red Mud. A 4 year programme i.e. ENEXAL has been successfully campaigned converting the waste into saleable pig iron and rock wool. Currently there is a furnace at ALSA in Greece running production on Red Mud clean up. Collaboration consortium includes:Aluminium de Greece (Greece). Sirmium Steel (Serbia). D'Appolonia SPA (Italy). Pegaso Systems SRL (Italy). National Technical University of Athens, School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, Laboratory of Metallurgy (Athens, Greece). Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule, IME Process Metallurgy and Metal Recycling (Aachen, Germany). Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Institute of Energy Technology of the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, (Zürich, Switzerland) Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel). 5
Innovative Metallurgical Solutions Limited Furnace Schematic
Furnace Bowl
Grid Power
Step-Down Transformer
PLC & Regulator 3 Electrode AC Reduction EAF
Slag Ladle
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Innovative Metallurgical Solutions Limited Furnace process schematic
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The Team
Dimitrios Sykokis, Chairman. Conley Cooke, CEO. DR. Kevin Perry, Co-Inventor, Pyro. Theuns Vermeulen, Co- Inventor, Electrical. George J. Chatzistavris. Administrator’ Leonidas Koudoumogiannakis – Metallurgist. CV’s available on request and on our website
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