Pilbara Iron Ore Mine
High-Flow Dust Suppression
The Challenge
A Pilbara iron ore mine needed high-volume water storage to support dust suppression for their fleet of water trucks — requiring extremely high flow rates. Traditional hard-sided tanks and turkey-nest solutions proved costly, slow to install, and environmentally disruptive.
The Solution
Titan worked with the tier-one mining client to design a high-flow bladder storage system capable of storing over 2,000,000 litres. Titan's in-house design specialists calculated the fluid mechanics and designed the pipeline needed to transfer water from several bores, including submersible bore pumps and surface transfer pumps. The final design delivered a 2,000,000 litre water bladder with 650 litres-per-second pumping outlet capacity.
The Outcome
The system reduced the time to fill a 70,000 litre water truck from over 40 minutes to less than 4 minutes — a major increase in operational efficiency and a significant reduction in fuel burn costs. The entire project was completed in just a few days, with no permanent infrastructure required: no concrete and none of the construction activity normally associated with large-volume hard-sided tanks.
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