Freeport-mcmoran Corporation

Cti Consulting, LLC

Cll Consulting, LLC

Roy Anthony Pickren

Roger Jacques Maduell

Freddie J Touro

David Brian Singleton

A system and a method are provided for melting solid sulfur and maintaining the resulting molten sulfur in liquid state. The system and the method may be fabricated, installed and operated at low capital costs, with high throughput rates at high operating efficiencies and low maintenance costs. Specific embodiments of the invention include modular and non-modular designs, which may be installed and operated with low to high degrees of automation, allowing the user to tailor the final configuration to meet specific requirements. The system of the invention comprises a specific configuration of a prescribed solid sulfur feed unit, a prescribed high-capacity melting unit, a compartmentalized pump tank assembly, and a heat exchanger located outside the high-capacity melting unit. The method provided follows the configuration of the system.

Sulfur melting system and method

A sulfur particulates remover is provided for removing sulfur particulates from gaseous streams generated in sulfur storage tanks and other types of sulfur containers and carriers. More than 90% of the sulfur particulates are easily removed in most cases. The sulfur particulates remover comprises a conical or prismatic shell structure equipped with vibrators, a cover plate and a stack or similar venting means. A deflector may be mounted inside the shell structure. This system is typically installed on the roof of a liquid sulfur storage tank, pit or other sulfur container using conventional hardware. The lower portion of the particulates remover is preferably a substantially round pipe to which a conical upper portion is attached by welding means or by means of bolts or a support flange. No steam, cooling water or any other external-source heating or cooling is necessary in the operation of the system.

Sulfur particulates remover

A method and apparatus are described for recovering gold from aqueous slurries of refractory gold ores containing sulfidic and/or carbonaceous matter. The method entails pretreating an ore slurry with chlorine in a multi-compartment autoclave operated at an elevated pressure. The chlorine used in this pressure chlorination pretreatment can be in either the gaseous or liquid state. Following the removal of residual chlorine from the pretreated ore slurry, said slurry is transferred to a conventional cyanide leach/carbon adsorption circuit to recover the gold values.

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Roy Anthony Pickren