Our services include:

  • Civil and structural design of plant and infrastructure
  • Hydraulic and Process engineering design and documentation
  • Tailing Management

Civil & Structural Design of Plant Infrastructure

Catalyst engineers have a wealth of experience and capability in documentation and design support services for the civil and structural design of plant infrastructure, in the mining, oil and gas sectors. Our engineers have worked on projects in Chile, Peru, Brazil and Australia.

Our experience includes documentation and design support for basic and detailed engineering with quality assurance, including:

  • Reviewing and documenting basic engineering
  • Establishing design specifications
  • Developing drawings
  • Technical specifications, listings, calculation memoirs, take–offs etc.

Engineering services during project construction include modifications to engineering drawings and documents originated during construction due to land conditions or operation of the facilities.

Main Facilities included:

  • Materials handling
  • SAG and Conventional Grinding
  • Thickening
  • Flotation Plant and Concentrate Filtering
  • Tailings disposal
  • Tailing pipelines, including distribution and dissipation chambers
  • Concentrate transportation system
  • Miscellaneous works in the surface Plant
  • Water system – infrastructure facilities.
  • Relocation of Crushers
  • Extension of existing conveyor lines
  • Transfer stations
  • Tunnels and towers of thick materials
  • Electrical Rooms
  • New parallel conveyor lines and tunnels

Other infrastructure including:

  • Internal plant roads
  • Drainage systems
  • Relocation of electrical substations

Design and documentation capabilities include:

  • Seismic design and calculation of steel structures
  • Seismic design and calculation of reinforced concrete to contain liquids
  • seismic design and calculation of steel tanks for liquids
  • Sets of structural calculations and designs of steel catwalks
  • Set of structural calculations and design of metallic rack to support pipes
  • Set of structural calculations and design of concrete pools
  • Set of structural calculations and design of reinforced concrete supports

All documentation issued is produced under strict quality control processes following ISO 9000.

Process Engineering

We provide 2D or BIM, documentation and design support services for pipelines to transport virtually every form of mineral imaginable, from concentrates such as copper, zinc, lead and iron to crushed ore, bauxite, nickel laterite, phosphate, potash, limestone, oil sands, and coal.

Documentation of pipelines to transport petroleum products, safely and efficiently, has become another area of our expertise.

We have completed a variety of projects covering both local and long–distance transportation of crude and refined oil, gas, oil sands, ethanol and alternative fuels.

The full range of pipeline applications we offer includes:

  • Long–distance slurry pipelines (mineral concentrates, mineral ores, coal, industrial minerals)
  • Tailings management
  • Oil, gas and products pipelines
  • Ethanol and alternative fuels pipelines
  • Hydraulic ore hoisting
  • Control systems design and integration

Our process piping division provides quality, economical and cost effective Piping Design, Drafting and documentation. Our Piping Engineers and Designers have technical expertise and capabilities that comes from vast exposure in Mining, Refinery, Industrial Processing and Manufacturing Plants with projects completed in Africa, Australia and South America.

Services:

Piping Design

Our Hydraulic engineering team can provide design support for piping design and intelligent drafting services.

Piping Isometric Generation

  • Extraction of Isometric Line from Piping General Arrangement
  • Provision of all relevant information for Pipe Spooling and Pipe Cut Length as Shop Fabrication Drawings.
  • Fit Field Welds (FFW) / Field Welds (FW) are indicated.
  • All In–Line items including Instrumentations, Controls & Metering Devices are properly labelled.
  • All Pipes Lines are fully dimensioned and coordinated.
  • Also provided is detailing of Special Pipe supports and Structural Grid Lines as installation references.

Material Take–Off

  • Includes Quantification, Estimation and Material Selection.
  • Fully detailed "Material List" is provided on each Isometric from fitting to fitting on individual Pipe Cut Length issued for Construction and Installation.
  • Operation, Design, Test Pressure and Temperature Conditions parameters are also included

P & ID

  • Mechanical Equipment, all Valves, Safety Devices include Directional Flow.
  • Test Control Points are fully designated to include other appurtenances such as Vents, Drains, Special Fittings, Reducers, Pipe Schedule or Class.
  • Interconnections of Input and Output Continuity are sufficiently developed with complete detailed specification

Tailing Management

We specialise in design support and documentation for tailings management systems that couple innovative design approaches with the latest materials for the effective recovery and relocation of tailings.

We apply our expert understanding of complex hydraulics and tailings disposal to develop economical and environmentally feasible solutions that result in longer design lives, reduced failure risk and increased efficiency.

Our full range of tailings management applications includes:

  • Conventional tailings management
  • Cyclone sand separation and distribution
  • Single point discharge
  • Perimeter spigotting
  • Open channel flow (launder system)
  • Drop box systems
  • Deep sea tailings placement (DSTP)
  • Water delivery and reclaim systems
  • Paste and thickened tailings
  • Surface deposition
  • Underground hydraulic/paste backfill systems
  • Dry stacking
  • Bauxite residue (red muds)
  • Ash management
  • High concentrated slurry disposal (HCSD)
  • Fly ash, bottom ash
  • Central ramp discharges
  • Side hill discharges