En junio 2017, GLENCORE, a través de su empresa Compañía Minera Lomas Bayas (Chile), adjudicó a LEPSA la fabricación y el servicio de unión en campo de un tanque de fibra de vidrio de 860 m3 para recirculación de electrolito para su proyecto “Lomas Bayas SX Demonstration Plant Project”.
The equipment features 44.3 ft diameter x 23 ft high, which challenged our engineering and production team into setting a new high, being this one, the largest diameter tank ever produced in Peru and the region for the mining industry.
The tank was delivered in three ring sections plus the bottom (six sections) and top cap (four sections). The rings were produced by our vertical filament winding, which can wind up to 49.3 ft diameter.
For the transport, the rings were compressed using our Oblation System, and shipped inside steel cage frames, making it possible to transport the sections all the way to Antofagasta-Chile. Later on client’s site, all sections and other components were assembles and joined in place for the leak test. The overall time for this operation was 45 days.
La experiencia por parte de LEPSA en la fabricación de FRP tanks de grandes diámetros fue determinante para generar la confianza de nuestro cliente GLENCORE y la entrega del producto final fue un gran éxito.
