The efficiency of mineral processing operations, i.e. concentrating raw ores for metal extraction, impacts significantly on the operating cost of the final metal products. First, valuable minerals are liberated from the ore matrix in a comminution circuit, comprised of grinding (e.g., ball mills) and classification (e.g. hydrocyclones) units. The liberated minerals are subsequently concentrated...

BACKGROUND Sensory isolation in a flotation tank is a method known for inducing deep relaxation and subsequent positive health effects for patients suffering from e.g. stress or muscle tensions pains. Very few studies have investigated this method as a preventive health-care intervention. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects in healthy participants after receiving a series of f...

The aluminium electrolytic plants generate PAH and fluoride contaminated wastes which are usually classified as hazardous material. These residues are generally disposed in secure landfill sites. A flotation cell process was previously developed to remove PAH from these aluminium industry wastes. The tests were done on composite samples made of particle size fractions under 50mm. The efficiency...

Solid/liquid separations are commonly the first step in any wastewater treatment. Such technologies are mature and new developments are rare. However, in the last decade some significant improvements in separation techniques for industrial wastewater pretreatment have been implemented. Advances in the technology include more efficient, faster centrifugal mixing of treatment chemicals and wastew...

The present investigation deals with the recovery of iron values from the screw classifier overflow slimes from an iron ore washing plant by means of reverse cationic flotation as an alternate to direct anionic flotation. Selectivity index, an indicator of separation efficiency, was chosen as the response parameter for optimizing the quantity and evaluating a series of generically same but chem...

Flotation is one of the most important mineral concentration techniques. It is known that the appearance of the froth in the flotation cells tells much about the state of the flotation process. A machine vision measurement device was used to compute dynamical, morphological and colour variables of the froth on the top of a flotation cell during a set of experiments. In order to examine the depe...

The restricted environmental stimulation technique or REST is a method of relaxation where the level of environmental sensory inputs is kept very low. A particular REST technique called tank flotation, or flotation REST, consists of 1 h sessions in a tank containing water with a high salt content and maintained at 35.5 degrees C. In this protocol, five normal subjects were studied before and du...

A test-rig closed-loop flotation column was used to observe the effect of diesel oil (collector) and Flomin F-425 (frother) on mass yield ash content for two Colombian coals: Caypa (northern zone) Guachinte (southwestern zone). The coal samples less than 38 µm (-400 M) were processed in a collector concentration range 0,32 1,60 kg/ton coal, as well frother 10 50 ppm. response surface methodolog...

-This paper studies several kinetic aspects of semi-batch flotation of celestite and calcite in a mechanical or subaeration cell with sodium oleate as the collector agent, using pure minerals ranging in size between 177 and 74 pm, respectively, with a constant pH = 9 in the flotation bath in all experiments. The results obtained indicate that both minerals float rapidly and that the flotation r...