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IMSAT’s Initial Proposal

Of Automation

Dandong Dongfang Measurement＆Control Technology Co.,Ltd.

January 2018

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Content

1. Project overview .....................................................................................3

1.1 Project needs .................................................................................3
1.2 Project objectives ..........................................................................3
2. System control proposal..........................................................................4
2.1 Overall Proposal ...........................................................................4
2.2 Process control functions ..............................................................4
2.2.1 Medium density control .....................................................4
2.2.2 Flocculant addition and underflow concentration control .6
2.3 System flow chart .........................................................................8
3. Project risk analysis ......................................................................... - 11 -

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1. Project overview
1.1 Project needs
Through the analysis of existing information, the main requirements of
the project are as follows:
 Control medium density of heavy medium；
 Control thickener flocculant addition and thickener underflow
concentration；

1.2 Project objectives

1 ） Keep medium density stable to ensure product quality and
productivity;
2）Reduce the consumption of flocculant; ensure thickener operating
in a safe state; keep thickener bottom flow density stable.

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2. System control proposal

2.1 Overall Proposal
The existing instruments, the newly added density meter, electric control
valve and other instrumentation constitute the overall proposal; custom
control software based on site process data.
It mainly includes the following functional modules:
 Medium density control；
 Flocculant and underflow concentration control；

2.2 Process control functions

2.2.1 Medium density control

2.2.1.1 Medium density control

In heavy medium coal preparation, not only to ensuring the suspension
viscosity, good stability, stable circulation, but also to ensure the stability
of the density of the suspension. There are many factors affecting the
change of the density of suspension after adjusting the density of the
suspension, the water in the raw coal, the changes in the content of primary
slime, the uniformity and continuity of the coal feeding, the sculping
efficiency of the sculping screen, the lift and flow of the pump, the water
content of magnetic separation concentrate, etc., all these factors can cause
fluctuations in the density of the suspension. Due to the frequent changes
in the density of the suspension, the use of manual control is difficult to
maintain the stability of the density of the suspension, only the use of
automatic control, the suspension density can be stabilized within a certain

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range, to ensure the normal production.

If the medium density is higher than the set data, the ash content of the
clean coal will be high and unqualified. If the density of the medium is
lower than the set data, the ash content of the clean coal will be low and
the yield will be low and the resources will be lost. Therefore, in the process
of coal preparation, it is necessary to control the density of the medium and
make it stable on a set data in order to ensure the quality and productivity
of the product, and the economic benefit is the best. The density of the
medium is measured online by the density meter and the set density data is
given by the operator via the HMI on the operator's station. The purpose of
the automatic measurement and control system is to make the measurement
of the density data track and reach to the set data. The density of qualified
media is on the rise in the normal heavy medium coal preparation process.
Therefore, the measurement and control system controls the medium
density by adding dilution water and adjusting the splitter box. An electric
regulating valve is set on the water pipe of the heavy medium pool and
dilute medium pool to adjust the valve to control the amount of water added.
When the measured density is greater than the set density, the measurement
and control system will increase the valve opening, so that additional water
increases, the density of qualified media gradually decreased until equal to
a given data, while monitoring the heavy media pool and dilute media pool
level, When the liquid level extreme occurs, to alarm to the operator;
When the measured density is equal to a set density, the electric valve
maintains its current position; When the measured density is less than the
set density, the electric valve automatically reduces the opening, dilution

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water would decrease, density of heavy medium would increase; if the

density of heavy medium increased slowly or reduces the valve opening to
a limited data, adjust the splitter box, the suspension is recovered through
gravity separator after gravity separation, and then enters the heavy
medium tank to increase the density of heavy medium. When the regulation
is invalid, it will automatically add new media and prompt operators to
make the density of heavy medium approach to a given data.

2.2.1.2 Medium density control equipment table

No Function Name Origin Unit Quantity Remark

Density meter China set 2

Medium Density Ultrasonic liquid
1 China set 2
Control level meter
Electric control
China set 3
valve

2.2.2 Flocculant addition and underflow concentration control

2.2.2.1 Flocculant addition and underflow concentration control

Predicting thickener overflow water quality, automatic adjustment of
flocculant addition and thickener underflow concentration, reduce the
consumption of flocculant stable thickener efficiency and ensure the
thickener settlement effect and backwash operations are realized by
monitoring of thickener density and flow rate, bed thickness, overflow
turbidity, thickener torque, bed pressure, underflow density and other
parameters.
The thickener dry slime content analysis: The flow rate of incoming
material is detected by flowmeter. Density of the incoming material is
detected by density meter. Calculate the amount of dry slime contained by

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the density and the flow rate of the incoming material, and calculate the
basic amount of the flocculant to add according to the corresponding
relationship between the amount of dry slime and the flocculant.
The overflow turbidity analysis: through the analysis of the turbidity of the
overflow, the base addition of the flocculant is corrected, so that the
turbidity of the overflow water is qualified.
Thickener internal interface detection: The settlement rate of the settling
layer, the transition layer, the bed level and the bed pressure of the
thickener is analyzed according to the on-line interface instrument with the
thickener. The small transitional layer shows that the solid-liquid interface
is distinct and the flocculation effect is good. The large transitional layer
shows the unclear interface because of worse solid precipitation. Therefore,
the base amount of the flocculant is corrected by the data of the on-line
interface instrument and the data of the bed pressure.
Thicker working condition monitoring: Through the communication
method to read thickener control system data, including torque, rake height
and other parameters, and then determine the thickener settling effect
through these parameters, by adjusting the flocculant added and the
frequency of underflow pump, prompting thickener access to the amount
of coal balance, so as to achieve the best flocculant added effect.

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Flow
Flocculant Base value
Dry Coal
Density Calculation
Flocculant Corrected Flocculant
value I Flocculant
Calculation
Adding System
Module

Bed Level

Bed Pressure Bed State Density Corrected

Analysis value I
Overflow Turbidity

Underflow
Flocculant Corrected Density Analysis
value II Module
Torque
Concentrator
Rake Height State Analysis Density Corrected
Value II Underflow Frequency
Density Control
Module
Manual Setting

2.2.2.2 Flocculant addition and underflow concentration control equipment table

No Function Name Origin Unit Quantity Remark

Flocculant addition
1 set 1 Existing
system
The thickener dry Density meter set 1 Existing
2 slime content
monitoring Flow meter set 1 Existing
Thicker monitoring
3 set 1 Existing
system
Thicker underflow
4 Density meter set 1 Existing
density monitoring

2.3 System flow chart

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Dilute Medium
Cyclone
Dense Medium
Cyclone

Clean Coal Clean Coal

1-50mm 1-50mm
Magnetic
Separator
Heavy Media
Screen

Splitter
Box Splitter
Box
Dilute Media Dilute Media

Refuse
1-50mm Heavy Media
Magnetic
Separator
Density
Gauge Non-Magnetic
Fines

Control Module Water Fresh Magnetic Feed

9 Liquidometer

Heavy Media Sump Dilute Media Sump

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Frequency Control

Control Module

Frequency
Control
FlowMeter Density Gauge

Torque
Bed Level
FlowMeter Rake Height
Bed Pressure
Flocculant Flow Rate
Density
Settling Rater
Water
Overflow Turbidity

Thickener Control
System

Density Gauge
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3. Project risk analysis

The automatic control system is used to optimize and transform the existing
technology control technology, and the existing risks are:
 Stability of basic control instruments and main equipment;
 Operator's inherent operating habits；
 Operation bottleneck of existing technology and equipment.