Lime mud conveyors for recausticizing plant

Três Lagoas, Brazil

Overview

Year of delivery: 2016
Plant: Fibria Horizonte 2 Pulp Mill
Materials: Dregs, lime mud and burned lime

Scope

White Liquor Plant Conveyors
- Chain conveyors
- Bucket elevators (57 m height)
- Crushers
- Screw conveyors
- Slide gate valves

Três Lagoas overview

The white liquor plant (WLP) in Três Lagoas, Brazil was constructed with Laitex to meet the highest environmental standards. Laitex supplied material handling system for the white liquor plant. The project included chain conveyors, 57 meters high chain elevators, lime crushers, screw conveyors and slide gate valves.

The new white liquor plant offers top-class performance in all process conditions due to its robust material handling system. The system enables the plant to achieve high availability and reliability, thus minimizing alkaline loss and waste.

Timo Kupsanen

SVP, Head of Business Unit
Mining & Recycling

+358 20 161 3304 timo.kupsanen@laitex.fi

Part of a new pulp mill

Laitex’s delivery was part of a larger project for the entire pulp mill in Três Lagoas. In total, the production capacity of the mill reached 3.25 million tons per year, making it one of the largest pulp producers in the world.

Lime conveyors in white liquor pulp and paper plant.

White liquor plant

The new white liquor plant consists of a single-line recausticizing plant and two lime kilns. Laitex designed and supplied conveyor system for dregs, lime mud and burned lime handling.

The material handling system enabled the plant’s energy-efficient operation, high capacity, long-lasting uptime and reaching environmental standards.

Related solutions

Recausticizing

Material handling in recausticizing plant considers handling and conveying solid materials for maintaining the flow and enabling the efficient operation. Laitex's conveying systems specializes for conveying lime and ESP dust in recaustizising process.

Lime Kiln

Material handling in lime kiln considers handling and conveying lime for maintaining the flow before and after the kiln. Laitex lime and ESP dust conveying systems are delivered globally.