A study on the effect of particle size on coal flotation kinetics using fuzzy logic

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 5201-5207

  Abkhoshk, Emad ^a   Kor, Mohammad ^b   Rezai, Bahram ^c  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b SHAHROOD UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Coal; Flotation kinetics; Fuzzy logic; Modeling

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE PARTICLE SIZE; BATCH FLOTATION; COAL FLOTATION; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CUMULATIVE RECOVERY; DIFFERENT COALS; FLOTATION KINETICS; FLOTATION RECOVERY; FUZZY LOGIC METHOD; FUZZY LOGIC MODELING; FUZZY MODELS; INPUT VARIABLES; MODEL FIT; OUTPUT VARIABLES;

COAL; COAL INDUSTRY; FLOTATION; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SYSTEMS; METAL RECOVERY; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARTICLE SIZE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

EID: 77950187836     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.12.071     Document Type: Article

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