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Observability Study of the Circuit Variables in the Dry Tailing Processing (DTP) of Golegohar Iron Processing Plant Using Linear and Bilinear Methods

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To carry out metallurgical and economic calculations as well as plant control, mass balance for mineral processing circuits is a very important and fundamental issue. For this purpose, sufficient and correct data from mineral processing circuits are necessary. On the other hand, due to economic or technical reasons, measurement or sampling from all of circuits is not possible. In this paper, regarding the measurement or sampling system that has been installed in the mineral processing circuit, a basic cycle matrix method was used for the determination of observable and unobservable variables in the mineral processing circuit. Also, two new methods including linear and bilinear methods were used for calculation of observable variables. These methods have been used in the case study related to dry tailing processing of the Golegohar iron processing plant.

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  1. Department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

    Mehdi Rahimi, Ali Abdollahzadeh & Bahram Rezai

  2. Faculty of Engineering, Mining Engineering Group, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran

    Ali Abdollahzadeh

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Rahimi, M., Abdollahzadeh, A. & Rezai, B. Observability Study of the Circuit Variables in the Dry Tailing Processing (DTP) of Golegohar Iron Processing Plant Using Linear and Bilinear Methods. Arab J Sci Eng 39, 5847–5859 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-014-1177-5

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