Stirred tank reactors under continuous atmospheric operating conditions fulfill an important key function for many gassed hydrometallurgical leaching processes such as:
- Bioleaching reactors
- Direct leaching
- Pre-oxidation tanks
- Cyanide detoxification
- Arsenic removal
- Iron precipitation
- Gassed chloride leach, e.g. for the nickel matte processing
- Recovery of Scandium and rare earth elements (with SO2 gas)
- Production of battery-grade lithium carbonate (with CO2 gas)
Apart from realizing “economies of scale” and implementing advances in process performance, achieving a cost optimization of such systems is a fundamental goal. Therefore EKATO has developed proprietary and unique gassing solutions the EKATO COMBIJET and EKATO COMBIJET PLUS.