Key Insight: “Challenging the status quo and alleviating constrained areas it’s our passion and what we enjoy the most. Wet Plant optimisation was something we haven’t done in the past but we were able to demonstrate that same de- bottlenecking principles could be applied to any process.” Our Goal: Production capabilities were limited by the performance of their thickener system. If production rates were increased, clarified water overflow would become dirty (“contaminated”) with waste product when peak throughput rates occurred. As a result, plant throughput rates were run conservatively to ensure water thickener overflow clarity was maintained. Our Solution: An automated solution to control the flocculent dosage rate was developed. As production rates varied, the floccule

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