Towards prediction of cake detachment in tailings filtration

By offering an opportunity to fulfil environmental and process water recovery specifications, filtration of tailings has received increasing attention. In the process, complete cake detachment is required maintain high throughputs. Incomplete discharge represents a bottleneck in process. Therefore, deeper understanding behaviour key success. Experimental studies on adhesion forces between filter cloth are first step towards prediction. Filtrations using FLSmidth lab press subsequent measurements with iron ore two different media show influence pressure adhesion.