Additional Benefits

Aerosion’s revolutionary reduction technology has many applications, and just as many benefits for its users.

SAVING ENERGY AND MONEY

Traditional grinding methods expend vast amounts of energy. The US Department of Energy reports that the process of grinding requires as much as 40% of the existing overall energy costs within the mining and mineral processing industries.

To reduce these costs, the Disintegrator converts the kinetic energy of high-speed particles into energy efficient size reduction through impact fracture. Depending on the fineness of the grind, the Disintegrator requires 5% to 40% less energy than other technologies. Because the Disintegrator uses much less energy, clients can experience impressive cost savings.

And that’s not all… The compactness and simplicity of the Disintegrator system greatly reduce foundation and space requirements, along with installation and maintenance costs.

“Comminution [grinding] consumes 14% of all electricity generated in Australia, and up to 4% world-wide” — Fuerstenau, Berkeley University, 2003

A SMALLER ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT

In addition to requiring far less energy than other technologies, the Disintegrator offers a range of opportunities to reduce the environmental impact of a process or product.

• More reactive particles facilitate efficiency in downstream processes.
• Waste streams and stockpiles can be upgraded into economic products.
• The purer final products enabled by this fine grinding technology reduce the associated shipping costs.
• Aerosion’s compact Disintegrator technology ultimately limits energy associated with the construction
  and maintenance of facilities.
• Finally, because the Disintegrator system uses a dry process, there is no need to exploit additional water resources.