Method, apparatus and system for manufacture of a cyanide
AssigneeSynergen Met Limited
InventorGeoffrey Alexander Duckworth
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Abstract
A method for producing a cyanide including the steps of supplying a hydrocarbon and nitrogen source to an onsite plasma reactor and removing cyanide synthesised inside the onsite plasma reactor to thereby produce the cyanide is disclosed. Also disclosed is a method which includes a monitor for monitoring the cyanide requirement of an onsite cyanide utilising system and supplying the hydrocarbon and nitrogen source in accordance with the cyanide requirement. Additionally, a method for recovering, refining, purifying or treating a metal including the steps of monitoring a cyanide requirement of the method and supplying to the method in a just in time sequence a cyanide synthesised onsite to thereby recover, refine, purify or treat the metal is disclosed.
Claims15
A method for producing sodium cyanide, the method comprising the steps of:
- supplying a hydrocarbon source and a nitrogen source to an onsite plasma reactor and reacting the hydrocarbon source and the nitrogen source in accordance with a just in time sequence for a cyanide requirement;
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- removing cyanide synthesised inside the onsite plasma reactor to thereby produce the sodium cyanide, wherein the sodium cyanide is produced as determined by feed-forward regulation to maintain a minimum inventory of the produced sodium cyanide onsite, wherein the onsite plasma reactor is mobile and attachable to a transportable apparatus;
- wherein the just in time sequence is for a sodium cyanide requirement at a mine site for recovering, refining, purifying or treating a metal;
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- wherein the sodium cyanide requirement is monitored electronically and stored in a database as sodium cyanide requirement data and used to determine the sodium cyanide requirement in accordance with the just in time sequence.
A method for producing sodium cyanide the method comprising the steps of:
- monitoring a sodium cyanide requirement of an onsite sodium cyanide utilizing system;
- supplying a hydrocarbon source and a nitrogen source to an onsite plasma reactor and reacting the hydrocarbon source and the nitrogen source in accordance with a just in time sequence for the cyanide requirement;
- and
- removing cyanide synthesised inside the onsite plasma reactor to thereby produce the sodium cyanide, wherein the cyanide is sodium, produced as determined by feed-forward regulation to maintain a minimum inventory of the produced sodium cyanide onsite, wherein the onsite plasma reactor is mobile and attachable to a transportable apparatus;
- wherein the just in time sequence is for a sodium cyanide requirement at a mine site for recovering, refining, purifying or treating a metal;
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- wherein the sodium cyanide requirement is monitored electronically and stored in a database as sodium cyanide requirement data and used to determine the sodium cyanide requirement in accordance with the just in time sequence.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.