Mixing characteristics of industrial columns in rougher circuit

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 1360-1367

  Massinaei, M ^a   Kolahdoozan, M ^a   Noaparast, M ^a   Oliazadeh, M ^a   Sahafipour, M ^b   Finch, J A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Flotation; Mixing; Radioactive; Rougher column; RTD; Tracer

Indexed keywords

FLOTATION; FLOW PATTERNS; FLOW RATE; MEASUREMENT THEORY; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; TAILINGS;

MICROCEL; MIDUK COPPER CONCENTRATOR (CO); RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION (RTD); TRACER INTENSITY;

COPPER COMPOUNDS;

EID: 35548985309     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2007.08.016     Document Type: Article

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