Froth recovery measurement in plant scale flotation cells

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1197-1203

  Alexander, D J ^a   Franzidis, J P ^a   Manlapig, E V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Flotation froths; Modelling; Process optimisation

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

FLOATABILITY; FLOTATION CELLS; FROTH RECOVERY;

FROTH FLOTATION;

EID: 0345377739     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2003.07.016     Document Type: Article

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