DEM simulation of particle flow on a multi-deck banana screen

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 910-920

  Dong, K J ^a   Yu, A B ^a   Brake, I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b BHP BILLITON   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coal preparation; Discrete Element Method; Process simulation; Screening

Indexed keywords

BANANA SCREENS; DEM SIMULATION; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW INFORMATIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS; OPTIMISATION; PARTICLE FLOW; PARTICLE VOLUME; PARTITION CURVES; PROCESS SIMULATION; SCREEN CAPACITY; SCREEN DECKS; SCREENING PROCESS;

COAL INDUSTRY; COAL PREPARATION; FLOW SIMULATION; MINING; SCREENING;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 67650729733     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2009.03.021     Document Type: Article

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