Pipe Flow Modeling Software for Mining Companies

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Simulation-driven tools that unite hydraulic design and transient safety to give mining sites total command of water, slurry, steam, and gas from pit to plant.

Fathom

Steady-State Liquid Pipe-Flow Modeling: Simulate incompressible liquid flow, size equipment, and troubleshoot mine-water networks for safe, energy-efficient, reliable operations.

Arrow

Steady-State Gas & Ventilation Modeling: Analyze compressible gas flow and ventilation ducts, modeling real-gas effects and choked flow in underground workings.

Impulse

Water hammer & Surge Analysis: Predict and mitigate water hammer surges to protect pumps, valves, and long pipelines from catastrophic transient pressures.

xStream

Gas & Steam Transients: Model systems to analyze gas and steam pressure spikes to ensure pressure relief systems stay within design limits.

Goal Seek & Control (GSC) Module

Automatically iterate variables to hit target flows, pressures, or temperatures, and simulate functions.

Settling Slurry (SSL) Module

Accurately handle high-solids slurries, predicting deposition velocity, pump derates, and erosion risks in tailings pipelines.

Extended Time Simulation (XTS) Module

Step through hours-long operating schedules, tracking changing tank levels, pump cycling, and variable demands over time.

CHEMCAD Process Simulation Suite

Perform rigorous thermodynamic modeling to design, troubleshoot, and optimize mineral-processing circuits, reducing energy and reagent costs.

Fathom

Hit target flows and optimize pump power across mine-water networks

Size pumps and pipes for dewatering, process water, and recycle lines in minutes. Build and verify pump station layouts or NPSH margins. The software lets you “test-drive” alternative designs or operating scenarios before investment is made or pumps are relocated, preventing costly downtime and environmental non-compliance.

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Arrow

Compressed-air networks & ventilation shafts

Arrow simulates mine airways, compressor stations, and piping to predict flow distribution, pressure losses, choked sections, and thermal effects. Useful for both surface compressor plants and deep-level ventilation. The software is routinely applied in subsurface mines and supports goal-seek sizing for fans or regulators.

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Impulse

Surge, water hammer, and booster sizing

Transient analysis with Impulse is used when mines up-rate tailings return lines or add booster stations. In one case, a 14.6 km tailings pipeline was modelled to size new boosters, check hydraulic grade lines and verify pipe stresses, preventing pond overflow and matching field data within 1 %.

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Settling Slurry Module (SSL)

Tailings and process-slurry pipelines

The SSL module predicts settling velocity, pressure drop, pump derating and deposition onset so engineers can avoid plugged lines, oversized pumps and excessive energy use. Popular functions include generating slurry system curves and automatically flagging velocities below the critical line.

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CHEMCAD

Hydrometallurgy & process-stream flowsheets

CHEMCAD builds rigorously mass- and energy-balanced flowsheets covering leaching, SX-EW, acid regeneration, and dynamic start-ups so mining engineers can size equipment, optimise reagent use and predict heat-duty or phase-split impacts.