Journal
MINERALS
Volume 10, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/min10100913
Keywords
flotation kinetics; batch flotation; first-order model; flotation rate distribution
Funding
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Teck Resources Ltd.
- COREM
- SGS Canada Inc.
- ChemIQA, under the Collaborative Research and Development Grants Program (CRDPJ) [531957-18]
- Faculty of Engineering at McGill University
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Four kinetic models are studied as first-order reactions with flotation rate distribution f(k): (i) deterministic nth-order reaction, (ii) second-order with Rectangular f(k), (iii) Rosin-Rammler, and (iv) Fractional kinetics. These models are studied because they are considered as alternatives to the first-order reactions. The first-order representation leads to the same recovery R(t) as in the original domain. The first-order R-infinity-f(k) are obtained by inspection of the R(t) formulae or by inverse Laplace Transforms. The reaction orders of model (i) are related to the shape parameters of first-order Gamma f(k)s. Higher reaction orders imply rate concentrations at k approximate to 0 in the first-order domain. Model (ii) shows reverse J-shaped first-order f(k)s. Model (iii) under stretched exponentials presents mounded first-order f(k)s, whereas model (iv) with derivative orders lower than 1 shows from reverse J-shaped to mounded first-order f(k)s. Kinetic descriptions that lead to the same R(t) cannot be differentiated between each other. However, the first-order f(k)s can be studied in a comparable domain.
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