Heaslip Engineering – Special Purpose Design , Manufacturing, PLC Programming, Integration & Commissioning of Aluminum/Aluminium Smelter Equipment & Systems
Heaslip Engineering Ltd has extensive experience in the design of special purpose machinery for the aluminum/aluminium smelter industry. Since its inception the practice has been involved with projects throughout the world; including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Our philosophy is to design and supply excellent products that are:
- robust
- innovative
- practical
- cost effective
Clients turn to Heaslip Engineering when they require materials handling or special purpose smelting equipment which is not available as proprietary equipment.
We are renowned for producing well conceived, robust, serviceable and cost effective designs which meet or exceed our clients’ specifications.
Using the latest in computer aided design equipment enables us to optimize the geometry and layout of equipment before constructing prototypes.
Overview of Aluminium Smelter Products
Potroom Equipment – Crucible Tilters
General Smelter Materials Handling
Dust & Fume Extraction Systems
Examples of specialty machinery designed and built on various projects to date:
- Systems for tipping of molten aluminium into reduction cells at start-up
- Clamping, rotating and holding systems for anodes during reduction cell superstructure change-outs
- Reduction cell superstructure systems incorporating point alumina feed and other improvements
- Cryolite crushing plant, transport and feed systems
- Bauxite/Alumina handling, transport and transfer systems
- Point feed cell superstructures
- Trailer and tapping yokes with platforms
- Dust collection in butt crushing plant
- Fully pneumatic mobile tapping tube cleaners with integral dust collectors
- Aluminum smelter process dust and fume extraction systems
- Cyclones and pneumatically pulsed bag houses and dry scrubbing systems for noxious fumes
- Exhaust fume extraction systems for heavy machinery under repair
- Alumina store and reclaim conveyors
- Dust collector duct work on all loading, transfer and discharge points
- Dry scrubbers and innovative prototype scrubbing vessels
- Abrasive dust extraction cyclones and systems for very abrasive materials
- Alumina handling, transport and transfer systems
- Mobile equipment workshops
- Particle accelerators for high velocity alumina injection into a gas stream
- Tapping yokes with metal crucible and tapping lid
- Tapping yokes – individual
- Trailer for tapping yoke with platform
- Crucible tilters
- Crucible lifting beams for casthouse
- Crucible tilting beams for casthouse
- Crucible lifting beams for cleaning area
- 14.5 tonne metal crucibles
- 12.5 tonne metal crucibles
- Two tonne bath tapping crucibles with lid, tubes and stand