This service offering draws on our in-house specialists and external associates, to deliver fast and expert advice to mining houses and consulting companies in our area of expertise.
Our team comprises of Mining and Engineering Professionals of many years standing with real world “hands-on” experience.
Services Offered
High Pressure Water Reticulation
- Design of piping in valve stations and on de-watering systems (e.g. specification, wall thickness calculations and pipe support structures)
- Design of high pressure vertical and decline columns
- Pressure drop optimization of mine-wide, high pressure reticulation systems
- Review of multi-column systems and design of column protection
- Transient flow and pressure surge analysis
- Pipeline failure investigations
- Review of ‘fit-for-service’ of deteriorated high pressure piping systems
- Extension and optimization of hydro power and backfill reticulation systems
- Water quality, pressure and flow management
- Pump control valve station design
- Pressure regulating valve station design
- Turbine protection (valves and by-pass dissipators)
Support Tools
HPE Expertise has at its disposal, state of the art software and analytical tools:
- Computer Aided Design (CAD – SolidWorks)
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
- Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
- Transient and steady-state fluid network analysis (AFT – Impulse)
- Mechanical-hydraulic systems analysis (HOPSAN)
- Pipe stress and deflection analysis (CAESAR)
- High-speed (100 kHz) data acquisition and processing (eDAQ + nCode GlyphWorks)