{"id":3244,"date":"2021-04-14T13:34:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T17:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.epcm.com\/sin-categorizar\/australian-copper-refinery-getting-state-of-the-art-overhaul-with-epcm-ingenuity\/"},"modified":"2024-03-26T02:35:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T06:35:20","slug":"la-refineria-de-cobre-australiana-recibe-una-revision-de-ultima-generacion-con-el-ingenio-de-epcm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epcm.com\/es\/proyectos\/la-refineria-de-cobre-australiana-recibe-una-revision-de-ultima-generacion-con-el-ingenio-de-epcm\/","title":{"rendered":"La refiner\u00eda de cobre australiana recibe una revisi\u00f3n de \u00faltima generaci\u00f3n con el ingenio de EPCM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Australian copper refinery getting state-of-the-art overhaul with EPCM ingenuity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

by John Jickling, President & CEO<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our team at EPCM was faced with a unique challenge when contracted to fully modernize a decades-old Australian copper refinery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our task was to equip the BHP Olympic Dam \u2013 considered to be the world\u2019s fourth-largest copper resource \u2013 with the latest technologies and safety measures, but without expanding the footprint of the existing site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fully modernizing would require new Cathode Stripping Machines <\/a>utilizing robotic technology and new safety innovations \u2013 all engineered into a site on the other side of the world from EPCM\u2019s headquarters in Canada. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finding solutions to difficult engineering problems, from concept to completion, has been our specialty for 40 years. The pieces of the Olympic Dam project puzzle came together for a successful testing phase in the spring of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through the summer of 2021, that intricate puzzle of cutting-edge automation technology will be disassembled and shipped to Australia, where it is scheduled to be installed at the refinery by fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once operational at Olympic Dam, the EPCM technologies and procedures at the mine will increase efficiency and uptime by minimizing delays due to maintenance and safety issues.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Example of a maintenance pendant.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Unique to the EPCM technologies at the mine will be maintenance pendants, which minimize risk to maintenance employees by ensuring all safety protocols are followed. In the long term, that means lower costs for clients, and most importantly, safer conditions for Olympic Dam employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Olympic Dam retrofit is an example of how, with some ingenuity, older first-generation permanent cathode operations can be upgraded to state-of-the-art systems and lower costs at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because we were able to design the new automation equipment to fit inside the existing structure, the refinery will be able to continue operation and not lose much operational time during the installation and commissioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most important, though, the mine will be a much safer place for employees once the upgrade is completed, which benefits everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cont\u00e1ctenos<\/a> \nsobre las m\u00e1quinas peladoras de c\u00e1todos de EPCM, como las que se instalar\u00e1n en Olympic Dam. Conozca m\u00e1s sobre otros EPCM soluciones<\/u>.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Nuestro equipo en EPCM se enfrent\u00f3 a un desaf\u00edo \u00fanico cuando fue contratado para modernizar completamente una refiner\u00eda de cobre australiana con d\u00e9cadas de antig\u00fcedad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-proyectos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epcm.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epcm.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epcm.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epcm.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epcm.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3244"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.epcm.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3315,"href":"https:\/\/www.epcm.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions\/3315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epcm.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epcm.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epcm.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epcm.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}