Talk to Bowen Basin Geologist Group on ACARP Coal ADX Project

ACARP Project C21014

THANK YOU!

To ..

• our sponsors ACARP

• our stakeholder AAMC and SGS

• others providing additional input thus far!

The upper slopes!

So where are we at in the project?

Progress?

• 18 months long, 3 months left to go!

• Implementation within SGS has taken longer than we first thought. However it is all for the better!
• Why has it taken longer? it has taken time to assemble a global implementation team on the SGS side, showing there commitment to this ACARP project and doing it properly.
• We will struggle to finish on time, however momentum is building in the project, so we will see how we go.

A word from SGS ...

CQDX- Customer to Laboratory data transfer

(Coal Quality Data eXchange) March 2013 update to industry

Deliverables

• code for test web portal for CQDX

• Expanded ADX with coal extensions. This is more akin to a Software developers Kit (SDK) for other technology providers in the coal industry.

• report documentation

• widget for sending dispatch CQDX style and receiving results

• Updated ADX document editor for coal

Interview with IT Projects Developer from SGS here in Mackay ...

Working on Reporting Results ..

Well what about

handling the complexities of mapping borecore procedures with ADX?

successfully reported and loaded simple results files through CQDX to GIM

(ARD+ associated masses)

completed ...

Our stakeholders AAMC wanted us to prove it could work in any coal scenario so they gave us their most complex bore core procedure ...

• LIM creating file with raw results (reported and replicates) in
• includes quick coking, raw, drop shatter, sizing related tests.

In progress ..

involving Consultants ...

adx editor..

• Currently manually dumped from SGS LIM, yet to conquer auto - requesting results direct from GIM

• Report and Load more complex CQDX results files.

So how do you build a borecore procedure using ADX?

As you know, these procedures can be quite complex!

We have a tool that allows this building process to take place. we had to make a few modifications.

Got a few people together and went through the process of building specific procedures based on what actually happens inside the laboratory. .

Yet to do ...

Its elements included separate processes for..

• ARD tests
• raw tests for coal and parting samples were different
• quick coking tests
• dropshatter
• drum tumble
• Raw compositing
• sizing
• recombining sizing for washability (12 fractions)
• modified tree flotation
• clean coal compositing

Clean coal comps included ...

1 Proximate Analysis

2 RD

3 Total Sulphur *

4 Phosphorus

5 CSN

6 CV

7 Gieseler fluidity

8 Dilatation

9 Reflectance

10 Petrography

11 Ash Elements

12 Ultimate Analysis

13 Gray King

14 Roga

15 HGI

16 AFT (Red & Ox)

happy days!

www.adx4.org

working on

Sending a dispatch ...

Jared Armstrong (and Charl Marais from SGS)

Scenarios used to test/extend ADX for dispatch of coal samples..

• sending the dispatch coupled with the instructions

• Sending instructions that involve sample compositing processes

• Sending a dispatch associated with many staged instructions

• Sending dispatch with clean coal instructions based on masses of individual size/wash fractions from different samples

Send dispatch via simulator ..

We built a simulated environment to show how it should work ...

interogate LIMS via simulator ..

The metaphor here is climbing a mountain

Working on this project has been like climbing a mountain!

• First, the lower slopes of scoping

• Then the upper slopes of doing the work

• The summit? not there yet! The summit will be achieving system to system communication.

• Final run down the slopes, not there yet!

But how?

Outline of planned activities

The plan...

the model ..

The lower slopes

The model ...

Why this project?

• we and our customers were recognising a need for streamlining mine-to-lab communications ..
• Labs have to frequently rewrite or clarify client instructions
• Manual transcription of data and metadata by Lab and customer
• Loss of metadata between LIMS and GIMS
• on the laboratory side, reporting results to their customers is a nightmare as each project is a different format!