Gravity Take Up Upgrade Programme  

Sedgman Onyx was commissioned to complete various design phases for over 200 conveyor towers as part of Rio Tinto’s Gravity Take Up Unit (GTU) programme which involves progressive upgrades across their entire Pilbara operations to improve safety and operability.  

Details

Location
Pilbara, Western Australia
Contract type
Engineering Design
Status
Current
Sector
Mineral Processing, Safety
Expertise
Engineering
Client
Rio Tinto Iron Ore

Overview

The scope is the multi-discipline design for the installation of permanent winches and GTU mass isolation points to reduce potential downtime, improve reliability and shutdown efficiency and improve safety.  

There are multiple sites with differing configurations and different levels of as-built design information. This required tailoring designs to suit specific site requirements, whilst maintaining standardisation as far as possible. 

The GTU’s often had constricted space and access for required configuration changes and limited shutdowns which required bespoke brownfield design solutions. 

Sedgman Onyx engaged with multiple stakeholders to develop safe, compliant and cost-efficient GTU upgrade solutions. The knowledge gained was applied and improved upon during the overall GTU upgrade program.