Pocock Industrial specializes in solving solids/liquid separation problems. We serve broad spectrum industry and have provided services to many of the major Mining, Oil, Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Food and Environmental companies. We also serve as consultants to Engineering companies, Research organizations, Legal and Academia.
Pocock Industrial
Capabilities
Pocock Industrial works on a flexible basis and will provide services from complete project responsibility to limited solids/liquid separation testing and consulting. We will work within tight budget constraints, under secrecy agreement, and will provide our services on a competitive basis. Upon request, we will provide a proposal for specific services developed in coordination with client needs.
We believe the combination of substantial practical experience, engineering capability, and integration of laboratory through operating plant process knowledge, provides a basis for providing exceptional service.
Pocock Industrial
Consulting Services
View the scope of our consulting services
- Laboratory testing to provide solids/liquid separation equipment sizing.
- Evaluation of solids/liquid separation alternatives and equipment recommendations.
- Development of process flow sheets, material balances, and the evaluation of process alternatives.
- Development of commercial plant design criteria.
- In-plant solids/liquid separation problem solving.
- Pilot plant design and operation to obtain process optimization and scale-up information.
- Process and solids/liquid separation consulting.
Pocock Industrial
Laboratory Testing Services
- Sample characterization, including particle size analysis.
- Flocculation screening, selection, and optimization.
- Classification studies.
- Clarification studies, including conventional and solids contact.
- Thickening studies, including conventional and high rate in CCD or hybrid configuration.
- Filtration studies, including drum, disk, horizontal belt, and pressure.
- Viscosity studies, including Newtonian and non-Newtonian.
- Development of titration curves for treating process and waste streams.
- Evaluation of precipitation chemical reagents.
- Water treatment studies.
- Precipitate particle size growth to enhance separations.
- Kinetic studies.
- Small scale pilot studies to optimize processes and provide solids/liquid separation information.
- Field laboratory testing services using portable equipment.
We've worked with some amazing companies.
And some even better people. Providing accurate design criteria is our speciality, and these are some of the companies that trusted us with some of their most important projects. Partial-list*
Agrico
Agrium USA
Amax Gold, Inc.
American Cyanamid Glatfelter Paper Company
Anaconda
Anglo American Corp (RSA)
Asamera Minerals U.S., Inc.
Asarco Inc.
Atlantic Richfield Oil Company
Atlas Corporation
Barrick
Barrick Goldstrike Mines
Basin Frozen Foods
Battle Mountain Gold Co.
Bechtel Corporation
Bechtel Wright Engineers
Bethlehem Steel
BHP Copper
BHP Corporate
Black Range Minerals
Bolivar Goldfields Ltd.
British Petroleum Carborundum
Brush Wellman Inc.
Cal Nickel Company
Calpine
Cleveland Cliffs Ozark Lead Company
Climax-Henderson
CNRL
Codelco LTV
Coeur d’Alene Mines
Colorado Minerals Research Institute
Colt Engineering
Comet Resources Pty Ltd.
Consolidated Gold Fields, PLC Bethlehem Steel
Corona Corporation
CRI Metal Products
CSMRI & CMRI
Cyprus Amax Minerals Co.
Cyprus Metals Company
Cyprus Minerals Company
Davy McKee Brown & Root
Davy McKee Corporation
Dawson Metallurgical
Dawson Metallurgical Lab
Dawson Metallurgical Labs
DFD – Odessa Power
Dorr-Oliver Weyerhauser
Dynatec
Echo Bay Minerals
Echo Bay Minerals Company
Escondida
Esso Oil & Chemicals International Nickel Co.
Exxon (US, CDN, AUST.)
First Miss Gold Inc.
Fluor Daniel
Fluor Daniel Badger
Fluor Daniel Inc.
Fluor Daniel Wright Ltd.
FMC – Gold
FMC Corporation
FMC Gold Company
Formosa Plastics
Frito Lay
Fuji Photo Film
General Atomics
Getchell Gold Company
Gold Reserve Corporation
Greenstone Resources
H.A. Simons
Hanna Mining Company
Hatch Associates
Hazen Research, Inc.
Hecla Mining Company
Homestake Mining Company
Idaho Cobalt
IMC
Imsamet of Arizona
Iowa Beef Producers, Inc.
J.E. Mincorp
J.R. Simplot Company
James Hardie Corporation Barrick Goldstrike Mines
JR. Simplot
Kaiser Engineers Lurgi
KD Engineering
Kellogg Brown & Root
Kennecott Copper Corp.
Kerr-McGee Corp.
Kilborn Engineers E.L. Bateman
Klohn Crippen
Knight Piesold
Kvaerner
Lakefield Research
Lockheed Martin
LTV Steel
Lummus M.W. Kellogg
McClelland Laboratories
Merck & Co.
Metcon Research
Minera NYCO
Minproc U.S.A
Mitsubishi Metals Mining Co. Reynolds Aluminum
Morrison-Knudsen Ford, Bacon & Davis
MRDI
Newmont Gold Company
NiCo
Noranda Hanna Mining Company
North American Lithium
Pan American Silver
Parsons
Peabody Coal Phelps Dodge
Pechiney, SA (FR)
Pegasus Gold, Inc.
Pennwalt Corporation
Pfizer Pfaudler
Phelps Dodge
Phillips 66
Pillsbury
Placer Dome, Inc.
Proctor and Gamble Company
Quebec Iron & Titanium
Ravensthorpe Nickel Operations
Raytheon
Rio Algom Ltd.
Rio Tinto Iron and Titanium
Rio Tinto
Santa Fe Pacific Gold
Selentec
SGS
Shell
Shell Oil Company
SNCo Lavalin
Southern Peru Copper
Staker Paving
Standard Oil of Ohio
Steel Mining Company
Steffen Robertson & Kirsten
Stillwater Mining
Stone Container Corp.
Sunshine Mining Company
Syncrude Canada
Timet Metals
True North Canada
Tuprag
TVX Hellas
U.S. Gold Corporation
U.S. Steel
Unipure Tintaya
US Agrichem
USMX, Inc.
Vector Engineering
Viceroy Resource Corp.
Westinghouse – Western
Wold Trona
Wyeth Ayerst
Wyzinco
Western Zirconium