Case Study: Pilot Testing - Potassium Sulfate Crystallization, IC Potash Corp.

ICP’s Ochoa Mine Project is projected to produce approximately 714,000 tons per year of SOP (K2SO4) from polyhalite ore for greater than fifty years as concluded in a feasibility study.

Another part of the feasibility study was the demonstration of a unique process, based on research that dated back nearly a century, to produce SOP economically while maintaining a high-quality, specialty fertilizer product.

ICP selected Veolia Water Technologies to refine the process due to their experience in the industry and overall development capabilities for crystallization process design using HPD® Technology. A series of tests were conducted to simulate various stages of the proposed flowsheet with the goal of validating the overall design.