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SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS
Hatch sets industry benchmark
using a digital twin to deliver sulfuric
acid plant in the D.R.Congo
resource-rich area, Katan-
Leveraging Bentley’s A To sustain one of the
ga is a remote province
largest copper mining
Open Applications facilitated located in the southern
part of the Democratic “operations in the DRC,
100% paperless workflows Republic of the Congo a new sulfuric acid plant
(DRC). It boasts abun-
to achieve commissioning dant reserves of copper and cobalt, with is being built in Katanga
copper accounting for 50% of all DRC
within one week exports. To leach copper oxide minerals, built in Katanga that will manufacture
the copper mines need sulfuric acid, and thousands of tons of acid daily. Global
the supply in Katanga is constrained, professional services company Hatch
having to be hauled long distances over was retained as the engineering, procu-
sections of unpaved road to reach the rement, construction, and manufacturing
secluded area. This situation causes high contractor to deliver the facility.
environmental risks. To sustain one of the The USD 245 million project features a
largest copper mining operations in the 1,400 ton-per-day manufacturing facility
DRC, a new sulfuric acid plant is being and an electrical waste heat power gene-
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