Kinetic Characterization and Its Applications in Mineral Processing
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2025 | Viewed by 331
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Interests: flotation; modelling and simulation; optimization; hydrodynamics and gas dispersion; process control
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Interests: particle-bubble interactions; flotation machines; surface and colloidal chemistries; kinetics and thermodynamics; ultrafine grinding; gold and silver leaching
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Kinetic characterizations have been used extensively in mineral processing to determine the rates at which a product is obtained. These rates are related to several sub-processes in both comminution and concentration. A kinetic characterization typically consists of measuring a metallurgical index as a function of time, determining parameters associated with the decay ratios and steady performances. From these results, ore or machine features are determined, which are critical to the scale-up of metallurgical results from laboratory tests to industrial systems. Kinetic responses also allow for the comparison of different operating conditions and machines in mineral processing. Although kinetic studies are widely used in academic research and routinely conducted in industrial applications, it has widely been accepted that there is a lack of experimental and modelling standards, which has justified further investigations in this regard. Under the advancements in analytical, mineralogical and computational tools, kinetic characterizations have been expanded to incorporate different particle properties, new models and estimation algorithms, or both together. The aim of this Special Issue is to invite contributions from a group of experts to present the latest results and recent advancements in the following areas:
- Kinetic characterizations at laboratory, pilot or industrial scales to evaluate and compare metallurgical performances.
- Kinetic modelling and its applications in mineral processing.
- Recent advancements in kinetic characterizations incorporating different particle properties, such as size, composition, liberation, association, among others.
- The use of new tools, model strategies and algorithms to characterize kinetic responses in mineral processing.
- Scale-up of laboratory results to continuous/industrial systems, and the implications for machine and circuit sizing.
Dr. Luis Vinnett
Dr. Ahmad Hassanzadeh
Dr. Diego Mesa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- flotation kinetics
- breakage rate
- flotation rate
- selection function
- scale-up
- time-recovery data
- flotation modelling
- comminution modelling
- simulation
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