Prediction of metallurgical responses during the flotation process is extremely vital to increase efficiency using a proper modeling approach. In this study, two new variants recurrent neural network (RNN) method were used predict copper ore indices, i.e., grade and recovery within different operating conditions. The model input parameters including pulp pH solid content as well frother collect...

In this research work, the effects of flotation parameters on coking coal flotation combustible material recovery (CMR) were studied by the artificial neural networks (ANNs) method. The input parameters of the network were the pulp solid weight content, pH, collector dosage, frother dosage, conditioning time, flotation retention time, feed ash content, and rotor rotation speed. In order to sele...

The Cerattepe (Artvin) mine contains volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposits in northeastern Turkey. This is a kuroko type deposit located Late Cretaceous volcanic, intrusive and sedimentary rocks, has structure with dense alteration stages. In this study, batch flotation tests were carried out to determine the behavior of new sample (mix ore), that was combination two different ores behavi...

this paper tries to determine an optimum condition for the flotation operation of the alborz-sharghi coal washing plant. for this purpose, a series of comprehensive experiments have been conducted on representative samples from feed of the flotation system of the plant. four operational variables such as the collector dosage (fuel oil), the frother dosages (mibc), the pulp density percent and t...

Fundamental studies of surface forces in foam films are carried out to explain the stability of foams and froths in froth flotation. The thin film pressure balance (TFPB) technique was used to study the surface forces between air bubbles in water from equilibrium film thickness and dynamic film thinning measurements. The results were compared with the disjoining pressure predicted from the Derj...

A new method was introduced for frothing characterization of flotation frothers. Method uses water recovery to develop a new frothability index named water recovery index (WRI). New index was determined for some commercial frothers and results were compared with dynamic frothability index (DFI). Results showed that water recovery index values follow the order of A-65 13016 s/mol > DF-250 6292.4...