Engineering solutions differently
Products
Barring Furnace
Carbon Regeneration
Extraction Systems
Rectifiers
Thermal Systems
Goldroom Accessories
Electrowinning Cells
EC series Clean-in-Place gold electrowinning cells have been reimagined from the ground up for the precious metal refining industry, with improvements to the status quo.
Years of direct operational experience and the latest in simulation software have led to the EC series electrowinning cell design. The result has been a cell that is stunning in its brushed stainless appearance and possesses performance that pushes the envelope.
Traditionally, the removal and cleaning of cathodes from electrowinning cells is an arduous, time-consuming process, entailing removal of the cathodes via overhead gantry crane to a separate cathode wash bay. This process is completed after every few strips to remove the gold sludge by pressure spraying. The repetative movement is labour intensive, time consuming, ergonomically inefficient and risks precious metal losses to the surrounding floors during the transfer.
Cadia’s EC series Clean-in-Place gold electrowinning cells have an incorporated anode and cathode lifter system that enables easy cleaning and sludge removal to take place within the cell. This proprietary protected design is an innovation for the industry. It decouples the anodes and cathodes from the busbars allowing them to be separated inside the cell for washing one by one. All sludge remains within the cell ready for gravity feeding or pumping to a sludge recovery system (such as Cadia’s VacPrep filtration system) enhancing recoveries, occupational safety and improving security through removal of another handling step.
Capital outlay is reduced also due to the lack of requirement for cathode lifting equipment and independent wash bays for most of the smaller systems. It also removes most of the manual labour from the electrowinning process.
Features
The range of electrowinning cells are designed for ease of use, consideration of ergonomics and enhanced safety.
Standard features include:
- Long-lasting stainless steel construction for reduced fire risk
- Full stainless steel lids with near-neutral pivot lid design to glide open and closed effortlessly.
- Integrated locks
- Non-drip design eliminating condensation running down the side of the cells and floor
- Thick Fire retardant rubber lining for reduced fire risk and improved resistance to liner bubbling.
- Limited plastic use in the design and where it is self extinguishing materials are used.
- Integrated extraction controls and effectively removes electrowinning and chemical fumes, preventing contamination of the gold room.
- Embedded connection on busbars allows for fast changeout, efficient low impedance loss on busbar joints and no lost nuts.
- Cathodes designed for ease of mesh or Cadia’s premanufactured pillow installation
- Clean in Place proprietary protected design mechanism for cleaning inside the cell
- Auto-Lid opening/closing upgrade for cells with cathodes 1000mm or larger
- Cathodes from 600mm through to 1200mm in size and 9-33 cathodes per cell available
- Longer life anode manufacturing design
Combine with our range of IP54 switch mode rectifiers, and you have a winning combination.
OUR CLIENTS
We pride ourselves in forming close working relationships and friendships with our clients. We work with exceptional, reputable companies and government agencies from Australia to places such as Canada, USA, Peru, Indonesia, Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania and others.
