TITLE:
Expressing Efficiency as a Function of Key Performance Control Parameters: A Case Study of Hydrocyclone Unit Process at Josay Goldfields Limited, Tarkwa, Ghana
AUTHORS:
Obiri Yeboah, Sampson Arthur
KEYWORDS:
Hydrocyclones, Percentage Passing, Classification, Lineality
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Business and Management,
Vol.5 No.3,
July
11,
2017
ABSTRACT: Optimization of gold liberation is a function of hydrocyclone (cyclone) classi-fication efficiency with regard to a given target of 80% passing 75 μm at Josay Goldfields Limited. Key performance parameters that control the classification efficiency are hydrocyclone feed density, hydrocyclone feed pressure and throughput under fairly constant grinding process conditions. The hydrocyclone feed density related linearly to overflow product of percentage passing 75 μm and showed statistical linearity at even 1% critical level of significance. The paper provides a relation between cyclone feed density and cyclone overflow product size fraction as a function of cyclone efficiency. Gradient of the relation establishes the standard unit of performance which depicts the classification efficiency as percentage passing 75 μm per percentage solids of cyclone feed density. This measurement provides a timely corrective action of key performance control parameters. The selected seven days samples space used in the assessment was due to the effect of a daily production deficiency on the overall profit margin of Josay Goldfields as company.