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     We design and manufacture electrowinning pilot plants for a wide variety of applications including   laboratory and bench scale test programs for electrowinning copper, cobalt, nickel, chromium, zinc and other metals. Our electrowinning cells can be operated with various numbers of anodes and cathodes and the level of catholyte in the cell can be adjusted to any level giving complete flexibility in the overall plating area on the cathodes. The electrowinning cell is connected to a rectifier with variable DC voltage and amperage output with automatic constant current or constant voltage regulation regardless of resistance changes between the anode to cathode and solution concentration.

     Our cathodes can be manufactured from various metals including 316L stainless steel and titanium. We can supply various anode materials to include lead-calcium-tin (Pb-Ca-Sn) alloys and precious metal oxide coated titanium plate and mesh anodes such as DSA®  (dimensionally stable anode). We can also supply porous anode diaphragm bags in order to keep the anolyte separated from the catholyte.

     The following summarizes our electrowinning pilot plants that we recently manufactured for various clients:

For more details: EW Pilot Plant 1

Client:  Moscow State Institute of Steel and Alloys (Technological University)
Site Location:  Moscow, Russia
Plant Capacity: 25 g Copper per hour

SX Kinetics designed and manufactured this electrowinning  pilot plant for a copper solvent extraction project in Russia. This EW pilot plant was coupled to the SX pilot plant as shown at:

Laboratory SX Plant 4

Client:  Southern Peru Copper Corporation
Site Location:  Toquepala, Peru
Plant Capacity: 208 g Copper per hour

SX Kinetics designed and manufactured this electrowinning  pilot plant for electrowinning investigations at the Toquepala copper leach - solvent extraction- electrowinning plant in Peru. The pilot plant included the following:

• Electrowinning cell with 10 cathodes and 11 anodes

• Rectifier with 0 to 300 amperes and 0 to 5 VDC out

• Electrolyte tanks with teflon coated immersion heater

• Variable speed circulation pump

Close-up view of the EW pilot plant

EW pilot plant shown with rectifier

For more details: EW Pilot Plant 2

For more details: EW Pilot Plant 3

Client: Erdenet Mining Corporation
Site Location:  Erdenet, Mongolia
Plant Capacity: 60 g Copper per hour

SX Kinetics designed and manufactured this electrowinning  pilot plant for a copper solvent extraction project in Mongolia. This EW pilot plant was coupled to the SX pilot plant shown in the background of the photo.

For more details: EW Pilot Plant 4

Client:  Moscow State Institute of Steel and Alloys (Technological University)
Site Location:  Moscow, Russia
Plant Capacity: 25 g Copper per hour

SX Kinetics designed and manufactured this electrowinning  pilot plant for a University in Moscow, Russia. This EW pilot plant was coupled to the continuous leaching and SX pilot plant as shown at:

Laboratory SX Plant 6

For more details: EW Pilot Plant 5

Client:  IMPRC
Site Location:  Tehran, Iran
Plant Capacity: 1,250 g Copper per hour

SX Kinetics, Inc. designed and manufactured this electrowinning pilot plant for the electrowinning of copper, cobalt, and nickel.

For more details: EW Pilot Plant 6

Client: Arava Mines Ltd
Site Location: Southern, Israel
Plant Capacity: 30 g Copper per hour

SX Kinetics, Inc. designed and manufactured this laboratory scale electrowinning pilot plant for a copper project in Israel.

For more details: EW Pilot Plant 7

Client: Immanuel Technological Solutions
Site Location: Mississauga, ON, Canada
Plant Capacity: 180 g Zinc per hour

This laboratory electrowinning pilot plant was designed and manufactured by SX Kinetics for a project to recover zinc from EAF (electric arc furnace) dust.

For more details: EW Pilot Plant 8

Client: Minera Pampa de Cobre
Site Location: Arequipa, Peru
Plant Capacity: 28 kg copper per day

This electrowinning pilot plant was designed and manufactured by SX Kinetics for a copper heap leaching / solvent extraction / electrowinning project in Southern Peru.

For more details: EW Pilot Plant 9

Client: Rio Tinto & SNC Lavalin
Site Location: Northern Peru
Plant Capacity: 80 kg copper per day

This electrowinning pilot plant was designed and manufactured by SX Kinetics for a copper heap leaching / solvent extraction / electrowinning project in Northern Peru.

For more details: EW Pilot Plant 10

Client: Sary Kazna LLP
Site Location: Kounrad, Kazakhstan
Plant Capacity: 240 kg per day copper

This electrowinning pilot plant was designed and manufactured by SX Kinetics for a copper heap leaching / solvent extraction / electrowinning project in Kounrad (near Balqash), Kazakhstan. This electrowinning plant was couple to our solvent extraction plant:

Portable / Modular SX Plant 7

Client:  C.V. Geodrill Indonesia
Site Location: Indonesia
Plant Capacity: 140 kg per day of gold

SX Kinetics provided this gold electrowinning plant to a mining company in Indonesia.

Rectifier for electrowinning of Gold

Electrowinning cell for Gold

For more details: EW Pilot Plant 11

For more details: EW Pilot Plant 12

Client: Private Individual
Site Location: Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
Plant Capacity: 20 kg gold per month

This electrowinning pilot plant was designed and manufactured by SX Kinetics for production of gold from a placer deposit in Tanzania. The process consisted of vat leaching with NaCN followed by carbon adsorption and electrowinning onto steel wool cathodes.

For more details: EW Pilot Plant 13

Client: Pacific Comex
Site Location: Sonora, Mexico
Plant Capacity: 20 kg gold per month

This electrowinning pilot plant was designed and manufactured by SX Kinetics for a project in northern Mexico. The process consisted of heap leaching with NaCN followed by direct electrowinning onto steel wool cathodes.