1. Introduction. In recent years, flotation cells incorporated in industrial circuits have shown a significant increase in size with time. In this context, while mechanical flotation cells of 300 m 3 have become common in the mining industry (Yianatos et al., 2008a, Govender et al., 2014), cells of up to 500 and 600 m 3 have been …
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This paper presents a diagnosis of the flotation circuit that resulted in a proposal for a circuit modification that afterwards was indeed implemented, aiming at improving the existing flotation circuit with respect to the rejection of non-sulphide gangue, which is achieved by improved separation efficiency of the copper flotation circuit.
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flotation circuit was set-up to recover the zinc. Laboratory test work results realized Cu-Zn recovery differential from a Cu/Zn separation circuit of over 40-45%. This performance has been achieved in the plant, at 72% Cu overall recovery. With the gradual improvements on-going with zinc circuit capacity and
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The application of froth flotation to the treatment of ores on an industrial-scale is almost always conducted in circuits that comprise many flotation cells, or banks of flotation cells, that make extensive use of recycle to achieve a target product quality. Further, the retreatment of streams by additional grinding or reagent addition is ...
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capacity by up to 25% with only modest investments in new classifying and flotation equipment. KEYWORDS Circuit Design, Circuit Simulation, Split-Feed Flotation, Coarse Particle Flotation . ... (2010), several of the most important of these are discussed below. Figure 2 – Simplified schematic of the HydroFloatTM separator.
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The flotation circuit model is identified with experimental data. Quantitative validation shows good performance. The simulator can be used, for example, in process …
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Flotation Circuits for Mechanically Agitated Cells. The simplest method of single-stage flotation with a machine of the mechanically agitated type is shown …
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Çayeli Cu-Zn flotation circuit which was surveyed by an Amira P9 project [Ergün et al, 2005a] [Ergün et al., 2005b]. Based on the mass balancing on liberation level a simulation model was established using the Sim module of HSC Chemistry 7.1, compare (Figure 3). Figure 3: Simplified Çayeli flotation circuit used in testing with the serious ...
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Flotation is the most effective method for the recovery of fine particles. The world's largest rare earth mineral-producing plants operate at Bayan Obo in China, and Mountain Pass in the USA employs the flotation circuit for the recovery of REMs from the carbonatite ores. 2.3.4.1 Surface Chemistry of Rare Earth Minerals
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The by-products flotation circuit at the copper concentrator was modified by application of an additional acidic leaching operation for this hard-to-upgrade material.
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A) Rougher flotation circuit: The measured potential values for the molybdenum plant's flotation circuit in the Sungun complex are in the range of −585 to −600 mV. In the molybdenum processing plant, gas-oil is used as a collector for molybdenite flotation, and sodium sulfide (Na 2 S) is utilized to depress copper sulfide minerals.
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Introduction This paper discusses the steps associated with the development of a flowsheet, from mineralogy through test work, equipment selection to plant design. Irrespective of …
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For the flotation circuit design, we applied stochastic programming. In the optimization problem, it is desired to find the optimal configuration, equipment design and ... (Bruckard et al. 2010). The separation is carried out on milled aqueous mineral suspensions (pulp) subjected to forceful air bubbling, which produces the separation ...
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The basic approach consists of describing the flotation process by a single zone (pulp) where a first order collection process occurs operating under perfect mixing conditions. Otherwise, the froth separation zone is not considered. Dynamic flotation models developed for control purposes (Casali et al., 2002) or models used in optimizing ...
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2010 Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Published by Maney on behalf of the Institute and The AusIMM Received 15 April 2002; accepted 1 September 2010 DOI …
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a flotation circuit Background There are many papers in the literature that discuss the ... 2010 VOL 119 NO 4 199. Published by Maney Publishing (c) IOM Communications Ltd and the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy consideration.5 The Ôrepresentative sampleÕ is useful for
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Flotation kinetics. 1. Introduction. Compañía Minera Doña Inés de Collahuasi SCM initiated the development of a new geometallurgical model to characterize its Rosario deposit in terms of its comminution circuit capacity ( Alruiz et al., 2009) and flotation performance. The flotation component of the model is now described in detail.
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Determination of the kinetic constant is necessary in designing flotation circuits. However, before obtaining the flotation rate, ... Uçurum M (2010) Coal flotation optimization using modified flotation parameters and combustible recovery in a Jameson cell. Energy Convers Manag 51(10):1891–1897.
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Results involved mechanical flotation cells of 10-300 m 3 from rougher, cleaner and scavenger circuits and columns from cleaner circuits. A significant effect of superficial gas rate on bubble ...
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A flotation circuit is controlled in simulation using an extremum seeking control (ESC) approach to keep the cells operating at the optimal operating point, as represented by peak air recovery. It is assumed that optimal performance is achieved at this operating point where the froth layer is stable, and the mineral recovery of the flotation ...
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Flotation circuit Configuration for Alijavad copper-gold ore, 2015, Mehrasl Company. The flotation scheme of Alijavad copper-gold ore, 2015, ... The performance of the Sungon comminution and classification circuit, 2010, the first international copper congress, Tehran.
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Flotation is a physicochemical process which allows the mineral separation, such as copper sulfide minerals and molybdenum, from the remaining minerals which form most of the …
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The flotation circuit model is identified with experimental data. ... 2012) and HSC Chemistry® Sim (Coleman and Lamberg, 2010). A drawback of these tools is that they are mostly applicable for steady-state simulation. Additionally, some dynamic simulators have been presented in the literature for mineral processing units and circuits.
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A flotation model has been validated against the survey data obtained from a copper rougher flotation circuit with a circulating load. The model was developed using the hydrophobic force as a kinetic parameter, which made it possible to use the contact angles of the free and composite particles as input parameters so that the model can predict …
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In this research, the optimization of collector and frother in the flotation circuit of Bavanat copper complex was investigated, and using DX7 software and response surface method, the ...
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Most flotation circuits include an initial stage of rougher flotation, followed by a scavenger stage of flotation. The objective of passing through the rougher and scavenger flotation circuits is to maximise recovery of the desired minerals into relatively low grade concentrates that may typically contain 5-15 weight percent of the ore feed ...
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The flotation circuit control solution comprises a blend of regulatory, supervisory and optimization techniques that work well, both independently and together. 135 13th IFAC MMM Cape Town, South Africa, August 2-4, 2010 5. PROCESS DESCRIPTION Flotation is the primary separation process used in the commercial …
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In rougher flotation, both the mechanical flotation cell and flotation column reduced the ash content of the graphite ore from 15.43% to 10.8%, while the yield of the flotation column (91.41%) was ...
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INTRODUCTION Flotation is the primary separation process used to separate the valuable PGM bearing minerals from gangue minerals on the concentrator plant. The …
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Laboratory rougher flotation tests were conducted with two samples of Cu–Mo ores in fresh water and in sea water as a function of pH. In both cases Cu recoveries were slightly lower in sea water than in fresh water for a wide range of pH (pH 7–12). Flotation of molybdenite was however strongly depressed in sea water at pH higher than 9.5.
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1 Introduction. Flotation circuits are a common technology for the concentration of a broad range of minerals and wastewater treatments. Froth flotation is based on differences in …
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Most importantly, the internal reuse of process water in the flotation circuit minimized freshwater consumption by 34.62% (i.e., from 5.2 t/d to 3.4 t/d), indicating that 525.6 tons of wastewater ...
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The stick must be set perpendicularly to the slab. Set the slab in the classifier or the feed box or some place where the pulp is the same density that it is in the …
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Effects of polythionates on flotation performance in the copper–lead circuit Before discussing batch flotation results, it is important to highlight that the batch flotation results attempt to provide a more informed picture of mixed mineral systems, which were otherwise not presented by the single mineral microflotation tests conducted by ...
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Abstract Design and selection of correct flotation equipment is critical to the success of any flotation concentrator. Traditionally, selection has been based on residence time scale …
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The effect of flotation feed density on metallurgical performance was previously investigated. Results of test work have shown that the pulp density affects key parameters of the flotation circuit in both the pulp and froth phases (Runge et al, 2012). One of the findings was that froth phase recovery presumably improves because of a stabilizing ...
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