Three-dimensional Movement of Particles inside the Mineral Density Separator
The theory on particles displacement subjected to upwards and settling movements in water, using a water pulse, is described in literature, but very little experimental data is available to verify these theoretical ideas.The aim of this research work was to visualize the displacement of solid particles in a mixture of water and solid particles created with the aid of water pulses in the Mineral Density Separator.From the literature it is known that lighter particles are subjected to higher levels of displacement than heavier particles, and when the particles then settled down, layers of material are formed according to the densities of the material. By removing the individual material layers, the materials can then be separated according to their densities.During this study the individual material layers were investigated regarding the density and size distribution in that specific density layer. It is important for this project to have a statistical prediction of the real flow of the particles with different density and size distribution, inside the Mineral Density Separator.The information gathered during this study will be used to show the correlation between a two dimensional model of the particle flow and that of the real three dimensional flow inside the Mineral Density Separator.
Particle flow Water pulse Size distribution Density distribution Mineral Density Separator
N. Naud(e) A. V. Kolesnikov L. Lorenzen
Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, So Department Process Engineering, University of Stellenbosch, Madeland, South Africa
国际会议
XXIV International Mineral Processing Congress(第24届国际矿物加工大会)
北京
英文
711-716
2008-09-24（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）