Industrial Facilities, in the broad sense, encompasses all companies that produce products for internal use or commercial sale.  This includes diverse industry sectors such as Chemical, FDA/USDA regulated industries, Mining and Minerals, Petroleum/Petrochemical, Oil and Natural Gas Production, Power and many more.  Each industry sector has its own unique process, design engineering requirements, environmental and infrastructure needs.  The key challenge is to be able to tailor a project to include any number of services that will meet the unique requirements of individual industry sector.

In order to meet this challenge, Pennoni Associates has assembled a team with various skill sets to address most of the needs of the diverse industrial manufacturing market.  From site plan development to infrastructure design, environmental impact and permitting for new facilities to plant process audits, facility upgrade designs and implementation, design and upgrade of existing process water and wastewater treatment systems, as well as all areas of industrial environmental services, Pennoni has demonstrated the unique ability to tailor their service package to our clients’ custom needs.
 

With advances in process design and environmental protection standards, mining of precious metals and minerals is experiencing a market resurgence in the U.S. and other mineral-rich countries. As alternatives to fossil fuel energy dependence are being sought, America’s nuclear power industry is growing once again.  With worldwide shortfalls in uranium supply projected over the next two decades, uranium mines and milling facilities are now being re-opened and re-engineered to operate in accordance with today’s standards. Pennoni has developed substantial expertise in uranium mining and milling design and operations, including aqueous, chemical and mechanical processes that resemble traditional environmental treatment processes. 

Pennoni has successfully applied its full-service engineering portfolio to support minerals and aggregate mining and milling projects across the U.S. and in South America. Currently, our engineers, geologists and scientists are designing upgrades to existing facilities as well as new sites in New Mexico, Wyoming, Pennsylvania and South America.  

We have maintained excellent client satisfaction with mining companies, aggregate producers, in-situ recovery producers, and as subcontractor support to other engineering firms. We offer highly experienced process development capabilities, environmental engineering, mechanical and electrical engineering design,  site/civil and structural engineering support to our clients and potential clients in this dynamic and growing market.

Partnering with recognized industry experts, Pennoni engineers have developed a wide range of services in support of mining and processing of recoverable metals such as copper, gold, silver, nickel/cobalt, rhenium and uranium.   Our design teams have completed innovative process designs, modular and mobile recovery systems, facility design and layout, in-situ recovery of uranium, acid-leach and carbonate-leach mill processes, tailings management systems, process audits of existing operations, bench-scale and pilot scale studies and metallurgical simulation modeling to optimize the designs and operations.

We have prepared Conceptual and Intermediate design plans for conventional mine and mill and in-situ recovery (ISR) processes on a number of projects.  Our design included various milling equipment including crushers, SAG mills, acid leach and CCD circuits, solvent extraction (SX), metals precipitation and drying processes.  Innovative process and controls are routinely incorporated to minimize waste and, in multiple projects, to apply zero-liquid discharge concepts to a mill tailings management program.