The flotation rates of fine spherical particles under Brownian and convective motion

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 149-157

  Ramirez, Jose A ^a   Zinchenko, Alexander ^a   Loewenberg, Michael ^b   Davis, Robert H ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Collision efficiency; Flotation; Microflotation

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); COLLOIDS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

COLLISION EFFICIENCY; FOKKER-PLANCK EQUATION; PAIR DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; PAIRWISE BUBBLE PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; PECLET NUMBER;

FLOTATION;

BROWNIAN MOTION; CONVECTION; FLOTATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; SPHERICAL PARTICLE;

EID: 0032966399     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(98)00215-2     Document Type: Article

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