Journal
MINERALS ENGINEERING
Volume 13, Issue 4, Pages 365-372Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0892-6875(00)00019-4
Keywords
froth flotation; flotation machines; flotation bubbles; modelling
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Bubble surface area flux has been related to flotation performance and advocated as a key machine variable Analysis of available data suggests that bubble surface area flux (S(b)) and gas holdup (epsilon(g)) are related by Sr, approximate to 5.5 epsilon(g). This was the case for flotation columns;and mechanical cells, both laboratory and plant scale, over the approximate range Sb < 130s(-1) and epsilon(g) < 25%. A relationship is expected given their similar dependence on gas rate and bubble size (both increase as gas rate increases and bubble size decreases). Reasons that a relationship may be obscured, especially in full size units because of the difficulty in defining the overall S(b) and epsilon(g), are discussed The possibility to replace S(b) by epsilon(g) as the machine variable has the advantage that gas holdup is easier to measure. (C) 2000 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd All rights reserved.
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