Highland Valley Copper Control Systems Upgrade - Technology, Design, Simulation, and Installation

Author

Borthwick, Kevin S. ; Hargreaves, J.R. ; Yorke, Greg L.

Author_Institution

Ind. Performance Solutions Group, Fransen Eng. Ltd., Vancouver, BC

fYear

2008

fDate

5-9 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

This paper describes a facility wide distributed control system (DCS) upgrade project at a large copper and molybdenum mineral processing operation. The innovative hardware and software technologies employed in the new control system are discussed. The planning process, migration path and simulation techniques used to ensure the success of such a large and complex DCS upgrade are described. A novel mathematical model and simulator of the primary mill is described. A novel advanced control and optimization algorithm for the primary mill is described. Performance testing of the new advanced control and optimization algorithms using the new primary mill model and simulator is described.

Keywords

computerised control; copper; distributed control; mineral processing industry; molybdenum; distributed control system; mathematical model; migration path; mineral processing; primary mill; Control system synthesis; Control systems; Copper; Distributed control; Hardware; Mathematical model; Milling machines; Minerals; Path planning; Process planning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, 2008. IAS '08. IEEE

Conference_Location

Edmonton, Alta.

ISSN

0197-2618

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2278-4

Electronic_ISBN

0197-2618

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/08IAS.2008.347

Filename

4659135