Trona and Borates Wear Parts
Equipment, Parts and Materials by Production Process

Trona and borate ores are generally not extremely hard, but their production lines span:

Underground continuous mining, scraper and belt conveying, and shaft hoisting; crushing, screening, storage and transport of hygroscopic soluble salts; calcination, hot alkaline leaching, filtration, evaporative crystallization and drying; corrosion, erosion and scale from Cl, CO₃²⁻, SO₄²⁻, borates and concentrated crystal slurries; and restrictions on rust, lubricant and cross-contamination in high-purity products.

Material selection must address the combined effects of salt corrosion, crystal erosion, stress corrosion, scale, thermal cycling and sealing. Underground chains, calciner internals, hot-brine pumps and valves, and crystallizer circulation systems require separate material assessments.