The use of dimensionless numbers to characterise the feed to metallurgical reactors

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 69-80

  Reuter, M A ^a   West, C ^b   Fourie, A ^b   Moolman, D W ^c   Aldrich, C ^c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b MINTEK   (South Africa)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Neural networks; Process control; Process optimisation

Indexed keywords

FLOTATION; METALLURGICAL FURNACES; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; ORES; PYROMETALLURGY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

DISTANCE WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES SMOOTHING; FLOTATION PLANTS; METALLURGICAL REACTORS; SAMMON NETS;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 0030735060     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0892-6875(96)00132-x     Document Type: Article

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