Balanço de Massas de Bolso

In Ore Treatment it is very common and even necessary to evaluate the efficiency of Unitary Concentration Processes.

For this, we make the mass balance basically using the Mass Conservation Expression (A.a=C.c+E.e) and to simulate several stages we usually use Microsoft Excel.

With that in mind, I developed the POCKET BALANCE.

Android application, which based on the sampled contents and known masses is capable of:

✅ Calculate Mass Recovery;
✅ Calculate Metallurgical Recovery;
✅ Enrichment;
✅ Calculate Missing Content;
✅ Calculate 2 Missing Masses by Known, Estimated Mass Recovery or Mass Recovery by Content;
✅ Mass Recovery by Content;
✅ Calculate S.G. by Iron Content;
✅ Simulate several stages of Concentration, ROUGHER, CLEANER, RECLEANER, scavenger;
✅ Simulate known masses and grades and select them as a circulating load in Food, pondering;
✅ Simulate more than 1 Concentrate already weighted;
✅ Simulate After launching all Internships the Global Efficiency of Unit Operations, including correcting and weighing Circulating Loads;
✅ Everything is recorded and saved in the app, and can be easily searched by name.
✅ If you simply want to only weight Grades, you can just add them by clicking on the checkboxes sending this data to Feed, Concentrate or Waste that will be weighted.
✅ It is also possible to define the % of Solids and Flow by the density of the pulp and Density of Solids having the Food Mass;

All of this is also possible with Excel and a little knowledge of Ore Treatment or Expensive Simulators, but now it is possible to do it on your cell phone and close a balance sheet with samples in 10 minutes or less;

* It is necessary like any simulator, a basic training, but much simpler than doing in Excel even.

** Application developed for Iron Ore, however the Mass Conservation Expression is General, only the Flow Rate, % of Solids and SG depend on the Mineral of interest.