Automatic control of a laboratory flotation column

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 291-308

  Del Villar, R ^a   Gregoire M ^b   Pomerleau, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b Algosys Inc   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Column flotation; Mineral processing; Neural networks; Process control; Process optimisation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRODES; FLOTATION; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); MULTIVARIABLE CONTROL SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; POSITION CONTROL; PROCESS CONTROL; SENSORS; TWO TERM CONTROL SYSTEMS;

COLUMN FLOTATION;

ORE TREATMENT;

EID: 0033100706     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0892-6875(99)00007-2     Document Type: Article

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