Flotation and Laboratory
- Introduction of course topics, definitions, concepts of flotation, Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic properties,
- Additives, Phases in flotation, Concepts of surface charge, chemical interactions,
- preferential dissolution of ions, lattice substitution, electrical double layer, Collectors and micelles
- flotation mechanisms
- Flotation of sulfide minerals: solubility and semiconductor properties of sulfides, rlectrochemical phenomena
- - Flotation of sulfide minerals: the importance of oxygen in the adsorption mechanism, electrical kinetics, thiol adsorption mechanism, mechanism
and examples of flotation of sulfide minerals
- Flotation of oxidized and silicate minerals: cationic collectors (types. Mechanism, adsorption), physical adsorption, chemical adsorption, quartz activation,
- :Oxides flotation
effective factors on flotation, case studies
- Flotation of semisoluble salt minerals: Solution chemistry in flotation of semisoluble salts, surface charge, mechanism of adsorption, activation, examples of salt flotation
- - Flotation of soluble salts: chemicals , mechanism, case study
- Coal flotation: Characteristics of coal in terms of flotation (ash, sulfur, water), chemicals used, effective factors in coal flotation
- Flotation machines: machines equipped with agitators and dispersers
- Design of flotation circuits, flotation kinetics, mass balance of materials in the cell
- Factors affecting flotation and circuit design (particle size, quantity and quality of water consumption, pulp concentration, conditioning time, air bubble dimensions, aeration, froth depth and frother concentration)
- Flotation experiments: sulfide and oxide minerals