Flotation of composite particles

该项目将解决矿物工业浮选过程中的一个重要问题，即复合颗粒的回收，复合颗粒是纯矿物和主岩的混合物。该项目将调查最近报道的几个显着的发现，这些发现有可能显着提高复合材料的回收率，令人惊讶的是，也可以提高纯矿物颗粒的回收率。将开发新的浮选设备，其中的流动条件非常有利于粗颗粒和超细颗粒的回收，有可能将选矿厂的研磨能量和研磨介质的成本降低一半。

This project will address an important problem in the flotation process for the minerals industry, the recovery of composite particles, which are mixtures of pure mineral and host rock. The project will investigate several remarkable discoveries recently reported that have the potential to improve significantly the recovery of composites and, surprisingly, of particles of pure mineral as well. New flotation devices will be developed in which the flow conditions are highly favourable to the recovery of coarse and ultrafine particles, with potential to reduce the costs of grinding energy and milling media in concentrators by half.