WEBINAR - Valves Under Pressure: Reliability Lessons from Mining Operations
Across North America, mining operations must balance aging assets with ongoing expansions, debottlenecking efforts, and evolving process demands. Abrasive slurries, corrosive chemicals, and water-intensive circuits continue to increase downtime, safety risk, and maintenance burden, especially at existing sites pushed beyond their original design limits.
In many of these environments, valve technologies play a critical role in mine reliability, yet their impact is often underestimated until failures occur. Valve design, materials of construction, sealing performance, and actuation choices directly influence wear rates, leakage risk, maintenance frequency, and the ability to operate and monitor assets reliably across processing and tailings circuits.
This webinar examines common sources of downtime in mining operations and discusses practical design and lifecycle decisions for valve technologies that affect reliability, maintainability, and long-term performance.
What you’ll learn
In this session, Emerson mining valve experts explore how mining operations are addressing four recurring challenges:
- Abrasive slurry management: How material selection and valve design influence erosion rates, uptime, and maintenance intervals in high wear applications.
- Corrosive chemical handling: Sealing and corrosion resistant design considerations that support safer operation, regulatory compliance, and longer service life.
- Remote operation and asset visibility: The role of actuation and valve diagnostics in improving uptime, maintenance planning, and situational awareness – especially in hard to reach assets.
- Water recovery and sustainability: Approaches for minimising leakage and improving efficiency in water intensive circuits, including tailings and recovery processes
The session will also highlight how a more integrated approach to valves, actuation, and instrumentation can support consistent performance across the asset lifecycle, supported by real-world success stories from mining operations.
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Speakers
Yaneth Montenegro - Sales Engineer, Emerson
Steve Brewer - Business Development Manager, Mining, North America, Emerson
Dave Adkins - Business Development Manager, Isolation Valves & Actuation Technologies, Emerson