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A simulation of batch-flotation experiments was carried out using a simple empirical model to identify the process parameters that would give maximum yield at any given ash level. The relationship between the maximum yield values and the percentage ash-reduction ratio (ARR) has shown two regions where the collector and the frother dosages have individual influences on the flotation performance. Based on this observation, a simple “selection-criterion diagram” is proposed. This diagram can be used to select the process parameters to achieve maximum yield for a given ash content of the concentrate and at any given flotation period.
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SME nonmeeting paper 95–605. Discussion of this peer-reviewed and approved paper is invited and must be submitted, in duplicate, prior to Feb. 28, 1997.
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Govindarajan, B., Rao, T.C. Development of a selection criterion for process parameters in batch coal flotation. Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration 13, 151–155 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03402737
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03402737