Maximising overall value in plant design

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 1470-1478

  Huband, S ^a   Tuppurainen, D ^c   While, L ^b   Barone, L ^b   Hingston, P ^a   Bearman, R ^c  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c Rio Tinto Limited Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Comminution; Process optimisation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMMINUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRUSHING; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROCESS ENGINEERING;

FINANCIAL BENEFITS; MINERAL PROCESSING CIRCUITS; PLANT DESIGN; PROCESS OPTIMISATION;

PLANT LAYOUT;

EID: 33750814950     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2006.07.007     Document Type: Article

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