PasteThick™ Associates: Global Leaders in High Density & Paste Thickening Designs
Welcome to PasteThick Associates.
PasteThick Associates apply unique expertise to the design of paste thickening and the systems around a paste thickener including pumping and pipeline design, and flocculation. Our mission is to provide evaluations, including the alternative of high rate and conventional thickening, for application of paste thickeners that are useful to end users, consultants, and equipment suppliers in the minerals industry.
Who are we?
We are engineers experienced in the process and mechanical design of solids-liquid handling equipment. We specialize in thickeners and associated equipment that produce paste and thickened tailings.
What is paste?
Applied to the minerals industry, a “paste” is a non-settling, non-segregating suspension of tailings with little or no water release. Paste tailings are also referred to as “thickened tailings” and “high density tailings”.
Services List
- Laboratory and pilot-scale testing for the design of paste thickeners
- Process commissioning
- Evaluation of type, size, and performance of paste thickener options
- Pre-startup audit
- P&ID development
- Post start-up optimization
- Paste thickener control philosophy
- Operator training
- Instrumentation recommendations
- Guidance for paste system design
- CFD analysis
