Patent ID: 11873238
Assignee: INTELLISENSE.IO LTD
Field: Chemical engineering (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC C  B | IPC C

Claim 0:
1. A mineral recovery system for use in a mining operation, the mineral recovery system comprising:
a thickener including:
a process water input;
an underflow output having an underflow controller configured to adjust outflow of thickened slurry from the thickener;
an overflow output configured to dispense clarified water from the thickener; and
a flocculant input and a flocculant dilution input;

a thickener controller configured to control an operation of the thickener;
a processor executing a mining operations generated model to issue commands to the thickener controller, wherein the mining operations generated model incorporates a thickener sub-model and a material sub-model, wherein the mining operations generated model is employed to predict a future state of the thickener based on inputs of sensed conditions in the thickener and predictions made by the thickener sub-model and the material sub-model in real time,
wherein the processor is configured to issue a command for a change in at least one control parameter of the thickener controller in real time, based on the predicted future state of the thickener, and
wherein the thickener sub-model is configured to utilize a machine learning model and a physical simulation of the thickener using a partial differential equation model, wherein outputs of the thickener sub-model are quantitative predictions of performance variables,
wherein the thickener sub-model is a prognostic model of the thickener and wherein the thickener sub-model is configured to define internal dynamics of the thickener to predict the future state from recent sensed conditions, future control settings, and predicted inputs from the material sub-model.