Plant-site evaluations of the OPSA system for on-line particle size measurement from moving belt conveyors

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 897-909

  Lin, C L ^a   Yen, Y K ^a   Miller, J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BELT CONVEYORS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); QUALITY CONTROL;

MESH SIZE DISTRIBUTION; ONLINE PARTICLE SIZE ANALYZER SYSTEM; STEREOLOGICAL TECHNIQUE;

MINERAL INDUSTRY;

EID: 0034251213     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0892-6875(00)00077-7     Document Type: Article

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