Nano-microbubble flotation of fine and ultrafine chalcopyrite particles.pdfVIP

InternationalJournalofMiningScienceandTechnology24(2014)559-566 In 一 Nano—microbubbleflotationoffineandultrafinechalcopyriteparticles ⑩一 AhmadiRahman ．KhodadadiDarbanAhmad 一，AbdollahyMahmoudayFanMaorningb DepartmentofMineralProcessingEngineering,TarbiatModaresUniversity，Tehran11l一14115．1ran EFD,EriezManufacturingCo．，Erie，PA．USA A R T IC L E lN F 0 A B S T R A C T Articlehistory： Asiswellknowntomineralprocessingscientistsandengineers．fineandultrafineparticlesaredi币cultto Received24August2013 floatmainlyduet0thelow bubble—particlecollisionefficiencies．Thoughmanyeffortshavebeenmadeto Receivedinrevisedform 25October2013 improveflotationperformanceoffineandultraflneparticles．thereisstillmuchmoretobedone．1nthis Accepted19January2014 paper，theeffectsofnano．microbubbles(nanobubblesandmicrobubbles)ontheflotation offine Availableonline7June2014 (-38+14．36um)andultrafine(一14-36+5um)chalcopyriteparticleswereinvestigatedinalaboratory scale Denverflotation cel1．Nann—microbubbleswere generated using a specially．designed nano． Keywords： microbubblegeneratorbasedonthecavitationphenomenoninVenturitubes．1nordert0betterunder— Nanobubbles standthemechanismsofnano—microbubbleenhancedfrothflotationoffineandultrafinechalcopyrite Nano—microbubble panicles．thenano—microbubblesizedistribution．stabilityandtheeffectOffrotherconcentrationonnano。 Bubblesizedistribution Chalcopyrite bubblesizewerealsostudiedbyalaserdiffractionmethod．Comparativeflotationtestswereperformedin Frothflotation