Pall Wins $11 Million Contract for Australian Magnesium's Stanwell Plant

17-Jan-2003

Pall Corporation announced that it has been awarded an $11 million contract by Leighton Contractors Pty Ltd to provide several high temperature filter systems for a new magnesium production facility currently being built for Australian Magnesium Corporation Ltd's (AMC) Stanwell Magnesium Project. The magnesium plant will be the world's largest plant, producing 97,000 tons per annum of magnesium and alloys.

Pall will supply custom-designed, fully automated, hot gas filter systems for AMC's proprietary AM Process.

AMC's Stanwell Magnesium Project is designed to operate very efficiently with a low environmental profile. Pall's blowback filtration technologies will play a key role in the AM Process providing a reliable and extremely efficient method to recover magnesium chloride fines from high temperature fluidized bed calciner exhaust gas and will allow the recovery of the cleaned exhaust gas for re-use. The high temperature automatic self-cleaning filter systems will also provide a high degree of protection for downstream equipment.

Pall's blowback filter technology was selected due to its robust design, proven compatibility in the process conditions, and over 40 years of experience in similar critical filtration applications in chemical, refining, petrochemical and advanced power generation industries.

"After a worldwide search for the optimum filtration solution and an extensive evaluation process, AMC was pleased to select Pall," said Dr. Greg Sheehan, AMC Process Manager. "Applying Pall's proven high temperature filtration technologies in our process will help give AMC the reliability we need to produce magnesium in a cost effective way."

The demand for magnesium metal has been growing significantly over the past ten years and is expected to double to 780,000 tons per annum by the year 2009. This growth is driven primarily by the automotive industry for lighter and stronger materials to enable greater fuel efficiency and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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