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We design and manufacture solvent extraction pilot plants for a wide variety of applications. The following summarizes our solvent extraction pilot plants that we recently manufactured for various clients:

For more details: SX Pilot Plant 1

Client:  MRSI / CMS
Site Location:  Canon City, CO, USA
Plant Capacity: 26 L/min (org + aq)

SX Kinetics designed and manufactured this solvent extraction pilot plant for the production of high purity zirconium. On site technical consulting was provided by SX Kinetics for plant set up and operation.

For more details: SX Pilot Plant 2

Client:  MRSI / CMS
Site Location:  Canon City, CO, USA
Plant Capacity: 16 L/min (org + aq)

SX Kinetics designed and manufactured this solvent extraction pilot plant for a project to recover zirconium from an ore body in Brazil. On site technical consulting was provided by SX Kinetics for plant set up and operation.

For more details: SX Pilot Plant 3

Client:  Kress Enterprises
Site Location:  Belgium
Plant Capacity: 2 L/min (org + aq)

SX Kinetics designed and manufactured this pilot plant for a project to clean and stabilize gasoil (diesel fuel or heating oil) produced from waste motor oil. The pilot plant used air gear motor to drive the impellers and air motors coupled to gear pumps for the feed pumps. SX Kinetics provided operator training. The plant was shipped to a site in Belgium.

For more details: SX Pilot Plant 4

Client: MOL
Location: Hungary
Plant Capacity: 225 m L/min (org + aq)

This pilot plant was designed for operation at 150 °C, well above the flash point of the solvent. It was manufactured from  stainless steel with conductive teflon lined tubing.

The plant included 6 mixer-settlers that can be configured for any number of extraction stages.

For more details: SX Pilot Plant 5

Client: FLSmidth Minerals

Location: Utah, USA

Capacity: 26 L/min (org + aq)

SX Kinetics manufactured this mixer-settler with a sight glass window in order to evaluate phase separation characteristics in the settle under various parameters.

For more details: SX Pilot Plant 6

Client: Rio Tinto Australia

Location: Australia

Capacity: 26 L/min (org + aq)

SX Kinetics manufactured these mixer-settlers for a copper column heap leaching test.

For more details: SX Pilot Plant 7

Client: Cytec

Location: USA

Capacity: 4 L/min (org + aq)

SX Kinetics designed and manufactured this copper SX pilot plant for various copper heap leaching projects.

For more details: SX Pilot Plant 8

Client: Cytec

Location: USA

Capacity: 16 L/min (org + aq)

SX Kinetics designed and manufactured this solvent extraction pilot plant for the evaluation of various copper heap leaching projects

For more details: SX Pilot Plant 9

Client: Rio Tinto Boron

Location: Boron, CA, USA

Capacity: 16 L/min (org + aq)

SX Kinetics designed and manufactured this solvent extraction pilot plant for a boron solvent extraction project.

For more details: SX Pilot Plant 10

Client: ChemProc LLC

Location: Knoxville, TN, USA

Capacity: 16 L/min (org + aq)

SX Kinetics designed and manufactured this solvent extraction plant for a lithium purification plant.

For more details: sxk-204

Client: 3M

Location: Chile

Capacity: 3 L/min (org + aq)

SX Kinetics designed and manufactured this solvent extraction pilot plant for demonstration of new technology developed by 3M.

For more details: sxk-212

Client: Université de Liège

Location: Belgium

Capacity: 6 L/min (org + aq)

SX Kinetics designed and manufactured this solvent extraction and electrowinning pilot plant for a project to recover copper from electronic scrap.

For more details: sxk-220

Client: University of Kentucky

Location: USA

Capacity: 8 L/min (org + aq)

SX Kinetics designed and manufactured this solvent extraction pilot plant for a project to recover scandium from coal mining waste rock.

For more details: sxk-233

Client: Poyry Finland Oy

Location: Finland

Capacity: 10 L/min (org + aq)

SX Kinetics designed and manufactured this solvent extraction pilot plant for the extraction of metals from municipal waste water.

For more details: sxk-240

Client: West Virginia University

Location: USA

Capacity: 8 L/min (org + aq)

SX Kinetics designed and manufactured this solvent extraction pilot plant with 12 mixer-settlers for a project to recover scandium from ground water.

For more details: sxk-257

Client: Managem Group

Location: Morocco

SX Kinetics designed and manufactured this solvent extraction pilot plant with 10 mixer-settlers for a project to recover cobalt. The pilot plant included pH and temperature control, coalescer, and carbon filter.

For more details: sxk-268 / sxk-269

Client: Eco Recycling

Location: Civita Castellana (VT), Italy

SX Kinetics designed and manufactured this solvent extraction pilot plant with 10 mixer-settlers for a project to recover cobalt from recycled lithium batteries. The pilot plant included two SX circuits, one for impurities and the other for cobalt.

For more details: sxk-292

Client: Kemetco Research Inc.

Location: Richmond, BC, Canada

Capacity: 1 L/min (org + Aq)

Project Number: sxk-292

SX Kinetics designed and manufactured this solvent extraction pilot plant for a research centre in British Columbia, Canada. It will be used to test a new process to separate manganese from calcium from lithium battery recycling.

For more details: sxk-300

Client: Compania Minera Autlan

Location: Luevo León, Mexico

Capacity: 1 L/min (org + Aq)

Project Number: sxk-300

SX Kinetics manufactured this solvent extraction pilot plant for a mining company in Mexico doing research on lithium battery recycling. The research programme was conducted by Kemetco Research in Canada.