Hybrid first-principles/neural networks model for column flotation

AIChE Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 557-566

  Gupta, Sanjay ^a   Liu, Pi Hsin ^a   Svoronos, Spyros A ^a   Sharma, Rajesh ^a   Abdel Khalek, N A ^a   Cheng, Yahui ^a   El Shall, Hassan ^a  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; FLOTATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOSPHATE; PROCESS MODEL;

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); COMPOSITION EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PHOSPHATES; RATE CONSTANTS; SILICA;

COLUMN FLOTATION; FIRST-PRINCIPLES MODEL; GANGUE;

FROTH FLOTATION;

COLUMN SEPARATION; FLOTATION; NEURAL NETWORK;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DISPERSION; HYBRID; HYDROPHOBICITY; MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; VELOCITY;

EID: 0033103303     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690450312     Document Type: Article

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