6 February 2017: This month sees the kick-off of the AMIRA P9Q project. P9Q is the latest in a long line of P9 projects focussed on modelling and simulation in the minerals industry.  

This article was published in CRC ORE News - February 2017

IES update: AMIRA P9Q project launched

By Greg Shapland, IES Utilisation Manager

The focus will be on delivering validated multi-component equipment models in the Integrated Extraction Simulator (IES). Following research conducted in P9P, 12 new models will be delivered along with enhancements to IES. The project will run for three years, with initial versions of some models delivered in the first six months.

The project is led by Dr Mohsen Yahyaei from JKMRC (who recently spoke at the CRC ORE Annual Assembly in November). It will involve researchers from several leading institutes. The models to be developed are:

	Model name	Institute(s) responsible
1	Particle-Based Flotation Model	University of Queensland
2	Mechanistic Flotation	University of Cape Town
3	Pulp Zone	University of Queensland University of Cape Town
4	Hydro-cyclone	University of Cape Town
5	Cone Crusher	Chalmers University
6	HPGR	Hacettepe University
7	Dry Coarse Screen	Chalmers University
8	Jig	Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
9	Dense Medium Separator	Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
10	VR2 SAG/AG Mill	University of Queensland
11	Mechanistic Mill	Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
12	RoM Ball Mill	University of Cape Town