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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2011
Guy Peloquin, Jonquière, CA;
Alain Larouche, Jonquière, CA;
Alain Boivin, La Baie, CA;
Matthieu St-laurent, Jonquière, CA;
Régis Girard, Jonquière, CA;
Guy Simard, Chicoutimi, CA;
Guy Peloquin, Jonquière, CA;
Alain Larouche, Jonquière, CA;
Alain Boivin, La Baie, CA;
Matthieu St-Laurent, Jonquière, CA;
Régis Girard, Jonquière, CA;
Guy Simard, Chicoutimi, CA;
Rio Tinto Alcan International Limited, Montreal, Quebec, CA;
Abstract
An apparatus for refining a process liquor that includes solids, which apparatus includes a vessel having a base and a side wall that define an internal volume for containing the process liquor and for allowing gravity settling of the solids in the liquor, whereby to produce a refined liquor toward a top of the internal volume and a slurry toward a bottom of the internal volume, the apparatus further includes solids displacement elements disposed within the internal volume for directing settled solids and/or settling solids in the vicinity of the side wall or of the base toward a flow path of the slurry being extracted from the slurry outlet. A processing plant including the above refining apparatus and a method for refining a process liquor.