Recent Developments in the Technology and Equipment for Coal Beneficiation
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 7 February 2025 | Viewed by 47
Special Issue Editors
Interests: coal preparation; particle–bubble interaction; coal tailing water treatment
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Interests: froth flotaion; coal–collector interaction; bubble–particle interaction
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Interests: coal preparation; physical separation; multiphase flow
Interests: flotation; ultra-fine particle processing, surface chemistry; coal preparation; modeling; artificial intelligent; image analysis; nano-bubbles
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Coal is an energy resource of great abundance. Coal, an organic sedimentary rock, is upgraded in coal beneficiation unit operations, which reduce its content of impurities. Coal beneficiation includes physical processes that upgrade the quality of coal by regulating its size and reducing the content of mineral matter (expressed as ash, sulfur, etc.). The major unit operations are classification (screening), cleaning (washing, beneficiation), crushing and solid/liquid separation which also includes dewatering by drying. While gravity concentration (dense-medium baths, jigs, dense-medium cyclones, etc.) is the dominant cleaning method for coarse and intermediate coal size fractions, flotation is the dominant cleaning method for fine-size fractions. This Special Issue aims to contribute to the disclosure of recent developments in the technology and equipment for coal beneficiation.
Prof. Dr. Zhijun Zhang
Dr. Yinfei Liao
Dr. Guichuan Ye
Dr. Fardis Nakhaei
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- coal beneficiation
- coal preparation
- flotation
- gravity separation
- classification
- dewatering
