Start trial operation of Processing Plant of Petrikov GOK was performed on 30th of December. During a test run under load in manual mode, the operation of the equipment of most of the units of the technological scheme was checked. NPO Passat specialists are putting into operation all the supplied processing equipment now. Equipment produced by NPO Passat was installed to carry out the following technological operations:
separate conditioning with reagents, separate flotation of coarse and fine ore fractions,
purification of rough concentrates of coarse-grained and fine-grained flotation in one stage in ejector flotation apparatus;
the first stage of conjoint dehydration of foam products of cleaning operations of rough concentrate of flotation of coarse and fine fractions on belt vacuum filters;
leaching of dehydrated concentrate on vacuum filters with process water;
halite waste filtering on belt vacuum filters,
reagent preparation.
Petrikov GOK is scheduled to achieve a design capacity of at least 1.5 million tons of potassium chloride per year in the year 2021.