Modelling attachment rates of multi-sized bubbles with particles in a flotation cell

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue 12-14, 2008, Pages 989-993

  Koh, P T L ^a   Schwarz, M P ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cell hydrodynamics; Flotation kinetics; Flotation machine; Flotation modelling

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CELLS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CYTOLOGY; DYNAMICS; FLOTATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID MECHANICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

BUBBLE DISTRIBUTIONS; BUBBLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION; BUBBLE SURFACES; CELL HYDRODYNAMICS; CELL OPERATIONS; COLLISION FREQUENCIES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD); EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLOTATION CELLS; FLOTATION KINETICS; FLOTATION MACHINE; FLOTATION MODELLING; MONO-SIZED PARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STABILISATION;

FROTH FLOTATION;

EID: 52949114861     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2008.02.021     Document Type: Article

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