B Shahbazi; B Rezai; S.M.J Koleini; M Noaparast
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In this research the effect of bubble surface area flux on flotation rate constant of coal particles was investigated and the results showed that flotation rate constant increased with increasing bubble surface area flux. The obtained Maximum flotation rate constant was 3.30 /min while the particle size ...
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In this research the effect of bubble surface area flux on flotation rate constant of coal particles was investigated and the results showed that flotation rate constant increased with increasing bubble surface area flux. The obtained Maximum flotation rate constant was 3.30 /min while the particle size and bubble surface area flux were -37mm and 25.891/s, respectively. The bubble-particle collision, attachment and detachment efficiency were calculated in order to analyze the results. The obtained Maximum Stokes collision efficiency was 81.57% while the particle size, bubble surface area flux, and flotation rate constant were -500+420mm, 27.431/s, and 1.17/min, respectively. The obtained Maximum Yoon, Stokes and Potential efficiency were 94.66, 56.74 and 45.61%, respectively. Moreover, the obtained maximum detachment efficiency was 34.57% while the particle size, bubble surface area flux and flotation rate constant were -500+420mm, 16.771/s, and 0.85 /min. The collection efficiency increased with increasing of the bubble surface area flux. The collection efficiency was high for the particle size range of -106+37mm and for out of this particle size range it decreased steadily. So, the low efficiency of floating coarse particles can be attributed to the high efficiency of detachment while the low efficiency of floating of the fine particles was due to the low efficiency of collision.
M. Abdollahy; S. M. J. Koleini; A. Ghaffari
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Cyanidation process is one of the most important and widespread hydrometallurgical technologies used in the extraction of gold and silver from ores and concentrates. Some of the most effective parameters on cyanide leaching are sodium cyanide concentration, dissolved oxygen, solid percent, pH, particle ...
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Cyanidation process is one of the most important and widespread hydrometallurgical technologies used in the extraction of gold and silver from ores and concentrates. Some of the most effective parameters on cyanide leaching are sodium cyanide concentration, dissolved oxygen, solid percent, pH, particle size, retention time and agitation speed. In this article the effect of these parameters on the recovery of gold, silver and mercury from Pouya Zarkan Aghdareh ore has been studied to determine the optimum conditions using Taguchi exprimental design method. The experiments at the screening step based on L16 orthogonal array indicated that the effective parameters on gold, silver and mercury recovery such as sodium cyanide, pH, solid percent in pulp, d80 and retention time were obtained equal to 900 g/t ore, 10, 42%, 53 μm and 30 h, respectively. The experiments at the optimization step based on L18 orthogonal array indicated that d80 on gold recovery and retention time on silver and mercury recovery were the most effective parameters. Finally the optimum conditions for gold, silver and mercury recovery were obtained for parameters such as sodium cyanide, pH, solid percent in pulp, d80 and retention time equal to 1000 g/t ore, 10.3, 46%, 37 μm and 40 h, respectively. At this conditions gold, silver and mercury recovery were equal to 91.42±1.02, 54.31±1.24 and 19.50±0.66 percent, respectively.
