Mineral liberation by high voltage pulses and conventional comminution with same specific energy levels

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 27-28, Issue , 2012, Pages 28-36

  Wang, Eric ^a   Shi, Fengnian ^a   Manlapig, Emmy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; High voltage pulse breakage; Mineral liberation; Mineral recovery

Indexed keywords

HIGH VOLTAGE PULSE; MINERAL LIBERATION; MINERAL RECOVERY; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; SIMILAR DEGREE; SIZE FRACTION; SPECIFIC ENERGY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ELECTRIC CHARGE; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GRINDING (MACHINING); MINERALS;

GRINDING (COMMINUTION);

EID: 84857044316     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2011.12.005     Document Type: Article

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