Flotation is a complex process that is affected by a multitude of factors. These factors may be inherent in the circuit design, or in how the flotation plant is operated. The FloatStar suite of control modules utilises advanced process control to overcome designrelated limitations and maximise circuit performance during operation.
Sulphide ores are major sources of base metals like Copper, Lead, Zinc, Nickel, Cobalt etc. Beneficiation of these base metal sulphide minerals is predominating through froth flotation technique. This technology has acclaimed importance as a versatile process for beneficiation of vast variety of sulphide minerals. Due to flexibility of the process and remarkable development taken place in ...
In flotation, pH control is a vital method to control selective mineral separation. A standard depressant that is used is an Alkali. An Alkali is any substance that when mixed with Acid will neutralize each other and form a new chemical substance called a BASE. This is very important. The ore may be either alkaline or Acidic. To have a positive control over flotation, it is necessary to be ...
Cell Bank Control Operation Components Feed Rate Mineralogy Particle Size Pulp Density Temperature Flotation ... Table 1: Grade/recovery performance of a hypothetical copper ore flotation process. Product % Weight % Cu Assay Feed 100 Concentrate 10 Tailings 90 (a) From Table 1, the Ratio of Concentration can be calculated as F/C = 100/10 = 10. If only assays are available, the ...
· Chalcopyrite separation from pyrite was affected by the activation of pyrite flotation by copper species dissolved from chalcopyrite. Grinding media had a large effect on the reduction of copper(II) to copper(I) on the pyrite surface. The reducing grinding condition generated by mild steel medium favoured formation of copper(I) sulphide phase, which resulted in high pyrite activation. Thus ...
S. Bulatovic, "Flot ation of Oxide Copper an d Copper Cobalt Ores," in Handbook of Flotation R eagents: Chemistry, Theory and Practice Volum e 2, Elsevier Science a nd Technology Books, .
This application note guides you through pH measurement solutions that address these unique copper flotation challenges. pH Control in Copper Flotation for Maximized Product Yield METTLER TOLEDO ยินดีต้อนรับ คุณ{mt:firstName/}
· IMPROVED FLOTATION PROCESS CONTROL AT NEWCREST''S TELFER OPERATION . Copper. grade. Pulp chemistry. Level 4 Control Strategy Optimisation and Constraint Control. Cell flow. coordination. Copper ...
This application note guides you through pH measurement solutions that address these unique copper flotation challenges. pH Control in Copper Flotation for Maximized Product Yield METTLER TOLEDO Bonjour, M. {mt:lastName/}
Flotation of copper sulphides assisted by high intensity conditioning (HIC) and concentrate recirculation Erico Tabosa, Jorge Rubio* Laboratório de Tecnologia Mineral e Ambiental (LTM), Departamento de Engenharia de Minas, PPGEM, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Avenida Bento Gonçalves. 9500, CEP, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil article info Article history: Received 19 ...
Download Citation | Study on electrochemical control flotation of copper ore in erdenut copper mine in Mongolia | Based on the phenomenon of electrochemistry occurring in flotation process, five ...
Under the conventional flotation scheme utilized here, both copper and arsenic minerals floated very strongly and there was no selectivity between copper and arsenic. Arsenic separation using pulp potential control . If the flotation behavior of tennantite were similar to that of enargite, the most likely pulp potential region for
Copper flotation profit can be estimated online utilising the assay of the onstream analysers. High and low limits of the profit can be calculated, and the range between limits can be used for an evaluation of the return on investment, which has to be done during the implementation of a new control system or analyser. The range depends on the target values for concentrate and tailings, and on ...
· With this control method, the potential could be kept constant within 2 to 5 mV throughout the flotation stage. The selectivity in the flotation of copper minerals from the complex ore was significantly improved under conditions of controlled potential compared to open potential conditions. At low potentials the recovery of sulphide minerals ...
control of a flotation process are classified as follows: The tendency of the ore to have variable physical, metallurgical, and surface properties produces significant changes in a flotation circuit. The particle size range of the flotation feed can be substantial because of ore hardness changes and changes in the operation of the grinding circuit. This can cause extreme variation in the ...
· Control systems based on fuzzy rules can also potentially extend control capability, even under operating conditions in which linear control techniques (like PID) fail (, 1997, Pedrycz, 1993). In the previous study, the authors developed algorithms for measuring the froth visual features and predicted the metallurgical parameters of a batch flotation process ( Jedsaravani et al. 2014b ).
· The use of potential as a parameter to control flotation has been widely proposed in literature (Leppinen and Hintikka, 1995, Woods, ... There are no striking differences in the grade for copper at both pH values and under all the conditions specified in the study. With respect to nickel, and as shown earlier, higher recoveries and grades were obtained in the presence of collector at both pH ...
· How to control Coppermolybdenum ore flotation. Froth flotation is a process for separating minerals from gangue by taking advantage of differences in their hydrophobicity. Hydrophobicity differences between valuable minerals and waste gangue are increased through the use of surfactants and wetting agents. The selective separation of the minerals makes processing .
challenges. Testing process monitoring, diagnosis and control strategies for flotation processes is expensive, and usually requires either complex pilot plant facilities or to deal with the hard constraints posed by experimentation in real plants. One critical aspect to take advantage of the present technological developments is the training of engineers to understand and master when and how ...
To maximize the copper yield, pH control is necessary in the flotation tanks. The copper flotation process Crushed ore, along with water and lime slurry, is fed into a ball mill. This rotating drum contains steel balls that crush the ore to a fine powder. When the ore/lime slurry emerges from the mill, it is fed to a rake classifier. Particles that are too large to pass from the classifier are ...
Plant staff monitored the flotation circuit under supervisory control and reported benefits of up to 4% improvement in copper recovery above that achieved with an older supervisory control strategy. To accomplish this work, a novel use of instrumentation to solve a flotation bank pulp level control problem was employed, a new implementation approach was used to correct some flaws in the older ...
· • Flow Optimiser controls relative mass pull of each cell using the level controls • Consistent feed to concentrate pump ensuring stable flow downstream Source: Lombardi, J, Weidenbach, M and Muhamad, N, 2011. Flotation Process Control Optimisation at Prominent Hill, Proceedings MetPlant 2011, pp 602614 (The
· This paper presents recent results and experiences of using realtime image analysis in the control of copper flotation at the Pyhäsalmi Mine Oy (Finland). First we introduce our measurement setup and the image variables it produces. After that the image variables are correlated against process variables using Partial Least Squares and clustering. The results show that some of the process ...
Copper ore may be separated from crude ore using a flotation process that takes advantage of the physical (as opposed to chemical) properties of small copper ore particles. To maximize the copper yield, pH control is necessary in the flotation tanks. A typical copper operation contains many flotation cells, often with a pH sensor in each cell ...