Effect of nanobubbles on the flotation of different sizes of coal particle

Minerals and Metallurgical Processing

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 157-161

  Fan, Maoming ^a   Tao, Daniel ^b   Zhao, Yuemin ^c   Honaker, Rick ^b  

^a Eriez Flotation Division   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Coal processing; Flotation; Froth flotation; Industrial minerals; Nanobubbles

Indexed keywords

COKING; COKING PROPERTIES; FLOTATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; RATE CONSTANTS;

COAL PROCESSING; DIFFERENT PARTICLE SIZES; FLOTATION PERFORMANCE; FLOTATION RATE CONSTANTS; FROTH FLOTATION PROCESS; INDUSTRIAL MINERAL; NANOBUBBLES; PARTICLE SIZE RANGES;

FROTH FLOTATION;

EID: 84888080338     PISSN: 07479182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03402262     Document Type: Article

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