Due to its numerous and major industrial uses, graphite is one of the significant carbon allotropes. Refractories batteries are only a couple many uses for graphite. A growing market wants high-purity with big flakes. Since there fewer naturally occurring high-grade ores, low-grade ores must be processed increase their value meet rising demand, which predicted by >700% 2025 due adoption elec...

separation method that is widely used in coal beneficiation for the separation of fine coal particles from associated minerals in water slurries. Since the cumulative recovery of a component in the concentrate is proportional to flotation time, the flotation process can be considered as a time-rate recovery process (Emad, Mohammad, and Bahram, 2010). Therefore, the general mathematical flotatio...

It is possible to obtain good performance from a flotation plant but it has proved difficult to maintain such performance. Recovery rates on a flotation plant can be around 90% and often lower, making flotation one of the least efficient processes in the concentration path. Hence, over the last few decades much research and development has gone into the stabilization and optimization of flotati...

In this paper, we build an air conveyor with newly developed vortex bearing elements, and study the flotation precision of the front-end of the substrate in quasi-static flotation transport. We experimentally discuss the three influential factors: air supply pressure, thickness of the substrates and installing direction of the vortex bearing element. We find that during the process of transport...