The flocculation that takes place in the central feedwell of thickener plays a crucial role coal-slurry thickening process, which is not only complex but also largely influenced by flow characteristics. A coupled computational fluid dynamics–population balance model (CFD–PBM) was used to flocculation-thickening behaviour an industrial-scale gravity thickener. initialisation parameters inlet wer...

Water plays a key role in mineral processing plants. In order to process one ton of ore, 2.5 ton water is needed. Thickeners are commonly used for dewatering and recovering the water in most mineral processing plants. The underflow pulp density is increased by the sedimentation of particles and a clear water is then recovered from the overflow. One of the issues related to using the process wat...

The computational cost associated with the use of highfidelity Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) models poses a serious impediment to the successful application of formal sensitivity analysis in engineering design. Even though advances in computing hardware and parallel processing have reduced costs by orders of magnitude over the last few decades, the fidelity with which engineers desire to m...