With its wide range of products, skills, experience and knowledge, Multotec will participate in the 11th World Conference on Sampling and Mixing, which will take place from May 21 to 23, 2024 in South Africa. The event will provide valuable input for academics, manufacturers, engineering companies and experts striving for representative sampling across various sectors.
Willem Slabbert, Product Specialist: Samplers and Magnetics at Multotec, comments, “Multotec’s key collaborators will present four technical papers at the conference and the company will be one of the main sponsors of the event. At the event, delegates will be able to gain practical and industry knowledge around global best practices, regulatory compliance and TOS sampling.”
“Not only will we participate in the conference, but we are also part of the organizing committee and the technical review panel,” says Slabbert.
Multotec will primarily focus on understanding sampling applications and improving compliance with sampling standards based on our deep knowledge of the industry and raw materials, but we will also introduce sampling product innovations such as our Turntable Divider. evolving. Thanks to the collaboration with Multotec customers, this device has been perfected.
“We believe that the combination of these improvements aligned with TOS recommendations, combined with our proven mechanical design, has resulted in a product prepared for the demands of the most challenging sampling applications,” says Slabbert.
“In addition, we will present a second paper that delves into the understanding of the practical design of mechanical equipment and its role in fulfilling downstream sampling systems and not simply a unitary operation that works in isolation from the sampling system it serves. Our paper explains how cutter apertures larger than three times nominal particle size often collect sample increments that are too small for sufficient subdivision in downstream sampling operations. Our recommendation to improve one of the TOS recommendations comes from our experience in customer underperforming sampling systems and rectifying those operations, whether we were the designer or not.”
Experience in various raw materials
The additional presentations have in common that they are based on Multotec’s experience in various raw materials. This expertise allows the company to model and simulate its capital expenditures (capex) and operating expenditures (opex) of sampling systems for different lot sizes, sampling durations and precision requirements. The case study explains which solutions are the most appropriate from a technical-commercial point of view for the specific needs of each client.
“We will also discuss the use of alternative standards for mineral raw materials that are modern and complete to complement incomplete or outdated standards, so that global sampling practices can be achieved for all raw materials,” says Slabbert.
“Our team of sampling experts not only designs mechanical equipment samplers to avoid random errors, but also investigates non-random constitutional and distributional heterogeneity to determine the necessary frequency and amount of composite sample required at different particle sizes, for the preparation of specific representative mineral reports and the declaration of stocks/resources/reserves/performance”.
As both an Original Equipment Manufacturer and a Sampling Knowledge Partner working towards compliance and assurance, Multotec understands the science presented by Sampling Theory and makes it practical for our customers and the industry.
“This ensures that the sampling regimes included in our sampling equipment are accurate and precise and therefore representative. We can also use our advanced chronostatistical variogram tools and highly qualified staff to work on eliminating sampling errors (in systems supplied by us or not), until the system meets global best practices and reliability requirements. customer reports,” says Slabbert.
Product development and training
Multotec’s customized solutions are based on extensive experience and, once all this knowledge is translated into a product, they are launched to the sector, along with training aimed at end users, engineering companies, universities and other agents in the fraternity. of sampling.
“We also publish technical articles and contribute to certification by standards bodies such as the South African Bureau of Standards and ISO committees. We also conduct peer reviews of others’ work,” says Slabbert.
In addition to the formal conference proceedings, members of the International Pierre Gy Sampling Association (IPGSA) will present and host a series of pre-conference training sessions. Delegates will also have the opportunity to participate in post-conference technical visits to Multotec’s sampling equipment manufacturing facilities and other local mining sector experiences.
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- Willem Slabbert, Product Specialist: Multotec Samplers and Magnetics.
- Multotec has experience in various raw materials and offers solutions from a technical-commercial point of view for the specific needs of each client.
- Multotec key collaborators will present 4 presentations at WCSB11 sharing knowledge on practical applications, global best practices, regulatory compliance and Sampling Theory.
- Multotec seeks compliance and assurance, understands the science presented by Sampling Theory and makes it practical for our clients and the industry.
