Molycop Tools

posted in: Molycop Tools | 0

Molycop Tools© 3.0 is a set of 63 easy-to-use EXCEL spreadsheets designed to help process engineers characterize and evaluate the operating efficiency of any given grinding circuit, following standardized methodologies and widely accepted evaluation criteria. Molycop Tools incorporates a full set of digital simulators for conventional and semiautogenous grinding applications with the corresponding mass balance and parameter estimation routines; plus complementary spreadsheets regarding Bond’s Law calculations, grinding media ‘algebra’ and other useful utility functions.

Molycop Tools incorporates a full set of digital simulators for conventional and semiautogenous grinding applications with the corresponding mass balance and parameter estimation routines; plus complementary spreadsheets regarding Bond’s Law calculations, grinding media ‘algebra’ and other useful utility functions.

What types of Milling Assets are Covered?

  • Conventional Ball mills
  • Semiautogenous mills (SAG)
  • Crushers
  • High Pressure Grinding Rolls (HPGR’s)
  • Rod mills Vertical mills
  • Cyclones

How Can it Help Me?

This software package provides a suite of spreadsheet based programmes established to support the Plant Metallurgist in their role to optimise their milling operation.

  • Analyse the optimal sized grinding media based on the grinding task and mill circuit
  • Flowsheet development and mass balancing models
  • Ball mill and cyclone simulations
  • SAG mill flowsheet optimisation
  • Grinding media wear estimators