Mining

Alumina Refining Process

Tyco Flow Control is globally renowned for its alumina mining products designed specifically for the Bayer refining process.


Alumina refining places rigorous demand on flow control products due to sudden shifts in temperature, extremely high pressures and damaging environmental elements involved in the process.  The severe wear on valves and control equipment subjects refineries to frequent downtime that maintenance owners and operators cannot afford.  The industry is challenged to find longer-lasting technologies that maximize production and enable greater returns.

Solutions that Set Us Apart
Tyco Flow Control’s alumina refining products, including slurry and butterfly valves, are designed and engineered to assist our customers reduce downtime-related costs and maintenance expenses.  Our positive isolation and blanking valves and control applications assist customers to improve plant safety during otherwise dangerous maintenance processes.  Additionally, Tyco Flow Control is helping customers meet their environmental goals with products that contribute to fewer harmful emissions.  Several of our solutions include:

  • Keystone Control Slurry Butterfly valve is designed specifically for high abrasive wear applications. With proper sizing, installation and care, the “value proposition” to the customer is an extended life span of the product in selective applications.
  • Lunkenheimer Slurry Angle valves are a leader in product quality, pipeline lifespan and operation assurance.
  • Clarkson Slurry valves provide positive man safe isolation, allowing refineries to perform maintenance on hot well tanks without draining.