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FLSmidth REFLUX™ Technologies - Lance Christodoulou

When
14 May 2025
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location
Hexagon's Tucson office

Registration

Hexagon Employee
Registration is for Hexagon employees only. Registration code required.
Monthly Meeting Sponsor – $500.00
If interested, please contact SME Tucson, as this is on a first-come-first-served basis.
Non-Member – $65.00
Retired – $35.00
SME Tucson Member – $55.00
UA Student Chapter Member
For UA SME Student Chapter members only. Please make sure you are in good standing with the UA SME Student Chapter.

- MAY DINNER MEETING -

Join us for our next SME Tucson Dinner Meeting! Make sure to select your meal when making your reservation. Reservation deadline is Friday, May 9th.

Program:

Latest Advancements in Froth Flotation

The capability to enhance flotation performance is a continuous pursuit in the mineral processing industry. Incremental improvements are being pursued by incorporating design changes into established flotation technologies. The industry, however, is demanding advanced technologies to perform better in terms of improved resource utilization while at the same time ensuring that power and water usage is reduced. To meet these demands, it is necessary to make a step change in the performance capability of flotation equipment. To meet these demands it has become necessary to either improve existing flotation technologies or develop new ones. FLS has taken the approach to enhance its WEMCO flotation cell and introduce two new flotation technologies.

The introduction of the WEMCO II builds on the existing success of the WEMCO flotation cell by improving on recovery and operability of the technology. A step change in flotation has been developed in the form of the REFLUX™ Flotation Cell, which is a staged, frothless flotation machine which is enhancing the kinetics of flotation and shifting the grade recovery curve. The coarseAIR™ coarse particle flotation machine is another new development that allows operators to float coarser particles than that which has traditionally been possible, allowing for coarser grinding in milling circuits and consequently allowing for optimized energy usage and improved water recovery.

Venue and Beverage Sponsor:

Meeting Sponsors:

One spot AVAILABLE!
Reach out to Omar Smith or Liliana Pinedo if you are interested!

Speaker:
Lance Christodoulou, FLSmidth - Global Product Line Director REFLUX™ Technologies

Lance Christodoulou has been involved with novel flotation product development and testing over the last 20 years. Efforts have included product development from laboratory-scale to industrial-scale implementation of several new flotation technologies. His experience over last 25years includes operational plant experience as a plant metallurgist, sales engineer for magnetic separation products and senior process engineer for flotation equipment testing, commissioning, equipment development and scale up. Current responsibilities include novel flotation product development and deployment of these technologies into the global marketplace for FLSmidth. In his current role as Global Product Line Director – REFLUX™ Technologies he is responsible for overseeing the FLSmidth suite of REFLUX™ Products including the REFLUX™ Classifier, REFLUX™ GradePro™ Classifier, REFLUX™ Flotation Cell and coarseAIR™.

Agenda:

6:00pm - 7:00pm Social Hour
7:00pm - 7:45pm Dinner
7:45pm - 8:00pm Announcements
8:00pm - 8:30pm Program
8:30pm - 8:45pm Q&A

Location:
HEXAGON, 40 E Congress St #300, Tucson, AZ 85701. CLICK FOR MAP.

Costs:

$55 for SME Tucson members
$65 for non-members
Free for UA SME Student Chapter members

Payable at the door by cash, credit card, or check payable to SME Tucson.

Cancellations and No Shows:

Please call or email by the registration deadline to cancel. If you do not cancel your reservation by the deadline, SME is still required to pay for your dinner, and you will in turn be billed. Thank you.

Thank you to all our 2024 Scholarship Fundraiser Sponsors:

Mother Lode	Hexagon Mining, AMES Construction, ASARCO, South32
Bonanza	Freeport-McMoRan Sierrita Operations, Stantec
Big Nugget	Granite, M3 Engineering, Southwest Exploration Services, WSP
Pay Dirt	Ausenco, Call & Nicholas, Florence Copper, GroundProbe, Independent Geomechanics, Independent Mining Consultants, KE&G, McCraren Compliance, Meridian Engineering, Montgomery & Associates, Piteau Associates, Tetra Tech
Prospect	Darling Geomatics, Faraday Copper, Hatch, SRK Consulting
Supporters	Cori Hoag, Mayes Consulting, Ray Valenzuela

SME Tucson Section
PO Box 65931
Tucson, Arizona 85728
(520) 314-5066
smetucson@gmail.com