Separation performance of double deck banana screens - Part 1: Flow and separation for different accelerations

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 1218-1229

  Cleary, Paul W ^a   Sinnott, Matthew D ^a   Morrison, Rob D ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Banana screen; DEM; Discrete element method; Screening; Separation

Indexed keywords

BANANA SCREEN; BANANA SCREENS; COMMINUTION CIRCUITS; COMPLEX MACHINES; CUT SIZE; DEM; DIFFERENT SIZES; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; HIGH CAPACITY; HIGH FREQUENCY; INDUSTRIAL SCALE; INTERMEDIATE PRODUCT; PARTICLE FLOW; PEAK ACCELERATION; RECTANGULAR HOLES; SCREEN PANELS; SEPARATION PERFORMANCE; SIZE FRACTION;

FRUITS; GRINDING (COMMINUTION); IRON ORES;

SIZE SEPARATION;

EID: 69749091696     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2009.07.002     Document Type: Article

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