Identifying organic foulants on activated carbon from gold processing plants

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 14-15, 2000, Pages 1581-1588

  Fisher, N G ^a   Dunn, J G ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; AGENTS; FOULING; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FROTH FLOTATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GOLD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PYROLYSIS; TEMPERATURE PROGRAMMED DESORPTION; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

CARBONYL SULFIDE; GOLD PROCESSING PLANTS; ORGANIC FOULANTS; XANTHATE COMPOUND;

ACTIVATED CARBON;

EID: 0034500497     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0892-6875(00)00141-2     Document Type: Article

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