Precious Metal Recovery

OVERVIEW

Heat exchangers: operating in Ammonia oxidation plants

• Perform an important role for heat recovery and steam production
• Operating fairly close to engineering design temperature limits (eg. Creep)
• Longevity & sustainable performance desired
• Time consuming to maintain / repair / replace
• Precious metals deposit on heat exchangers
• Other process materials can also deposit (eg. Debris)
• During operation thermal efficiency is progressively reduced with the following effects:
• Increased component & equipment temperatures locally and downstream
• Reduced steam production

BDB Services (URSG)

Industrial Cleaning – Non-Destructive / Non-Acidic 

• Safe, Effective & Environmentally Friendly cleaning methods
• The use of patent pending Non-Acidic cleaning technologies and high pressure washing solutions to remove robust surface deposits and maximise plant efficiencies.
• Non-acidic cleaning mitigates risk of damage to operational plant and equipment and is a much safer option than alternatives.

Industrial Cleaning – Destructive / Acidic

• Using a concentrated acidic solution to aggressively break surface deposits away from steel tubes / shells to maximise PGM recovery.

Industrial Cleaning – Recovery from other Vessels

• PGM’s can also collect in downstream vessels including storage tanks
• Safe working methodologies & risk assessments to assist plants
• Experienced team & ability to efficiently recover, filter, neutralise and prepare PGM bearing materials ready for shipment.

Precious Metal Recovery

• Collection, filtration & packaging of surface contamination resulting from the industrial clean.
• Packaged material may be shipped to a facility for refining & recovery of platinum group metals (PGMs).
• BDB (URSG) have refining facilities in the USA & Norway, offering clients a “one stop” option.
• URSG – Joplin Missouri       www.unitedrecoveryservices.com
• K.A. Rasmussen – Norway              www.ka-rasmussen.no