Process Engineering

Paterson & Cooke has process engineering expertise covering a wide range of mineral processing technologies including comminution, classification, beneficiation and solid/liquid separation. This, coupled with our in-depth knowledge of rheology, clay chemistry and slurry flow behaviour, provides our clients with unique process skills and experience.

Our process design and engineering capability is supported by a number of in-house laboratories where we offer a range of services including material, slurry and rheological characterisation, clay behaviour mapping, bench and pilot scale thickening and filtration, bench scale flotation, pilot scale hydro-cyclone processing and filtered tailings conveyability investigations. Our laboratory capability is complemented with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and scaled model validation capabilities.