Monitoring thickener operation using a conductivity probe

Minerals and Metallurgical Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 9-15

  Gomez, C O ^a   Probst, A ^a   Finch, J A ^a   Moores, N ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Manitoba Division   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conductivity probes; Settling; Thickeners

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013155727     PISSN: 07479182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03403151     Document Type: Article

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