SUMMARY

ANALYSIS LOSSES OF MAGNETITE ON COAL WASHING

PLANT WITH CAPACITY OF FEED 250 TPH PT. KALTIM
PRIMA COAL, SANGATTA, KALIMANTAN TIMUR

Scientific Paper in The Form Of Skripsi, April 2017

Arfi Wiranata Ginting; Supervised by Dr. Ir. Syamsul Komar and Ir. Hj, Hartini
Iskandar, M.Si.

ANALISIS KEHILANGAN (LOSSES) MAGNETITE PADA WASHING PLANT

BATUBARA DENGAN KAPASITAS FEED 250 TPH PT. KALTIM PRIMA
COAL, SANGATTA, KALIMANTAN TIMUR

xiv + 68 pages, 34 pictures, 14 tables, 10 attachments

PT. Kaltim Prima Coal is one of the largest coal mining company in Indonesia.
Before the coal shipped, coal will be washed first in coal washing plant. Coal
washing in PT. Kaltim Prima Coal use Dense Medium Cyclone. This equipment
use heavy media medium on process to separate the coal and impurities. Heavy
medium that used in process of washing coal is magnetite. Magnetite consumption
based on washing plant standard is 0,7 kg/ton feed coal. But magnetite
consumption since 2013 more than 0,7 kg/ton feed coal. This research was
conducted by taking a sample of five times during the study. Sampling is done on
the points of losses heavy medium, that are the product of clean coal drain & rinse
screen I and II, overflow discard drain & rinse screen, feed and effluent of
primary magnetic separator drum I and II, and feed and effluent secondary
magnetic separator. The losses of magnetite on clean coal drain & rinse screen I is
average 0,145 kg/ton coal, while on clean coal drain & rinse screen II is average
0,282 kg/ton coal. Big losses on discard drain & rinse screen and secondary
magnetic separator is average 0,461 and 2,507 kg/ton feed coal. This research is
also to count recovery of primary and secondary magnetic separator that is
53,60% for primary magnetic separator drum I, 80,12% for primary magnetic
separator drum II, and 81,74% for secondary magnetic separator. Furthermore this
research is also analyze affected of washing plant delay that is the frequent of
washing plant stop and thickener dark to magnetite consumption. There are affected
between washing plant stop to magnetite consumption.

Keywords : heavy medium, magnetite, coal washing, magnetic separator,

sieve bend, drain & rinse screen,

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