Process Modelling and Applications for Aggregate Production
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 1847
Special Issue Editors
Interests: steady-state and dynamic process simulations; unit and process optimization; crushing and screening modelling; aggregates; data science; environmental product declarations and operator training
Interests: modeling and simulation; optimization and trade-offs; optimization architectures; data-driven decision making; coarse comminution; aggregates and minerals processing; crushing and screening; digital support tools
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Process modelling is often the foundation for decision making regarding process design, configuration, and production planning. Currently, steady-state modelling is the dominating simulation approach. However, there is more diversity in the field, including time-dependent dynamics simulations, discrete event simulation, different hybrid simulation machine learning and more. The process can be simulated as a stand-alone application or with a third party software as software-in-the-loop. Applications of process simulations can include process evaluation, debottlenecking, production planning, optimization, control and operator training, etc.
This Special Issue of Minerals aims to gather the most recent advances in research and application using process modelling and simulations for improved process understanding and performance. We would like to invite researchers in this field to submit their research papers, review papers, and communications related to Process modelling and applications in aggregate production.
Dr. Gauti Asbjörnsson
Dr. Kanishk Bhadani
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- steady-state simulation
- dynamic simulation
- discrete event simulation
- hybrid simulations
- machine learning
- software-in-the-loop
- operational calibration and validation
- process control
- process optimization
- process evaluation
- KPI
- debottlenecking
- aggregates
- course comminution
- classification
- materials handling
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