Improving Dripper Life

Each dripper supplies the reactants required to produce the chemical reaction and the liquid flow that removes the solubilized metal. Sediment present in irrigation solutions gradually plugs the drippers, thereby preventing the expected recovery, since the area immediately underneath the dripper is not irrigated and, as a result, unavailable for extraction.

Precisely in order to address this issue, in 1996 we introduced the leaching industry to debris collection pipes and a flushing procedure to remove the sediment built up at the end of irrigation lines, thereby increasing dripper life.

Our Flushtrol system is used to minimize the need to have operators working on the heap, turning previously manual operations into automated ones both in terms of frequency and duration.