Mining Solutions
Antiscalants, Descalants and Dispersants
BASF offer antiscalants, descalants and dispersants to suit several applications within the mining industry. BASF’s range in marketed under the Solutrix™ tradename and products have been designed to reduce maintenance costs and energy consumption whilst increasing process efficiencies.
BASF Solutrix™ antiscalants work by affecting the process of nucleation (also called threshold inhibition), which prevents scale crystals from forming and growing. In some applications the scaling potential is very high, and some scale crystals do form. Our antiscalants then prevent these crystals from developing further by attaching to the crystal surface and blocking access for further growth. This significantly slows scale formation and makes any scale which does form very brittle and easily removed.
Our antiscalants also disperse any scale crystals forming in the bulk of the solution as well as preventing any suspended solids from settling in areas with low flow, allowing them to be easily flushed out of the system.
The same chemistry used at higher doses acts as a dispersant to reduce the viscosity of slurries to maintain throughput, increase the efficiency of mixing and allow higher concentrations of slurry to be pumped at lower energy costs.
BASF also offers Solutrix™ E, a descalant, which is principally used for the removal of mineral scales which may have been deposited on the internal surfaces of pipes, heat exchangers and other processing equipment.
