Flotation column simulator structure. 2.2 Pilot flotation column operation and control The pilot column was operated for the air-water (and frother) system coupled with an on-line steady state model to predict output stream grades. The column control is shown in Figure 5. There are three regulatory control loops: air flow rate, froth depth …
Keywords Sulphide ores; column flotation; redox control; process control INTRODUCTION Over the last decades, considerable attention has been focused on pulp potentials and their influence on the results of sulphide mineral flotation [ 1 ]. Several investigators have dealt with potential-controlled laboratory flotation tests, among them …
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His current research interests include fault tolerant control systems, model-based predictive control systems, stochastic control systems, and hybrid systems. Dr Ramezani has been a member of IEEE since 2005 and a member of Iranian Community of Instrument and Control Engineers since 2012. Email: [email protected]
Flotation is a widely used physico-chemical process for separation of valuable from unwanted gangue minerals (Wills and Napier-Munn, 2006). Effective control of flotation circuits has a dramatic ef...
On the instrumentation side, developments encompass a more accurate method for measuring electrical conductivity for flotation column sensors, a device for estimating …
A schematic of a flotation column is shown in Figure 1. Industrial flotation columns are 6-14 m in height (from the bottom discharge to the top lip), and range in diameter from 0.5 …
Apart from flotation column, control of other chemical processes such as pH control [9], identification and predictive control of FCC unit [10], control of nonisothermal CSTR process [11], liquid ...
This work details the application of a predictive control strategy to a pilot flotation column working with a two-phase system (water-air). All controlled variables are estimated using electrical-conductivity based techniques. In particular, the results of a new method for estimating the bias rate, based on the measurement of the volumetric ...
"This paper presents the principles and application of a recently developed control system for flotation columns and column circuits. The control system uses triple pressure sensors to directly sense zone densities and level, and to help in characterizing the operating behaviour of individual columns. A complete expert system development tool …
The method has been evaluated in a pilot flotation column, with a two-phase system. The results obtained indicate that it can be directly used for supervision and control of flotation column ...
Control of flotation columnsSeveral control strategies for flotation columns has been developed in the last decades. The simplest control is the regulation of froth depth with tailing flowrate, and the manual regulation of air and wash water flowrates (Finch and Dobby, 1990, Bergh and Yianatos, 1993). This simple control strategy has ...
images taken by bubble viewers. In terms of process control advances, the discussion will focus on results for bubble size control in a two-phase system, and the application of a 2x2 multivariable predictive control to a pilot flotation column running in parallel to industrial columns in a Québec concentrator. Finally, the latest work on two-
Abstract. Since their first commercial application for mineral separation in the early 1980s, flotation columns have become a standard piece of equipment in mineral …
Flotation control strategies have been implemented as expert systems to control metallurgical objectives (i.e. grade and recovery), via the manipulation of froth depth, ... (2018) in order to implement it as part of a flotation column control system. The feed flowrate was used as the manipulated variable while the concentrate grade was …
LTM-2 probes are typically installed in flotation banks, tanks, individual flotation cells or in columns and sumps to provide consistent accurate pulp level measurement and control. The LTM-2 pulp level monitoring probe technology dramatically reduces the complication of slurry level interface monitoring under a wide range of froth and ...
flotation or a higher recovery in reverse flotation. The internal launders design promotes the optimal lip length, froth area, and transportation distance for collection of froth, …
The application of fuzzy logic to supervise a distributed basic control in a flotation column is discussed. The control strategies were studied and tested in a dynamic simulator of the process. Two control strategies were developed and tested to manage three basic distributed controllers: an expert supervisor, mainly based on rules …
As flotation columns control systems have been improved due to the combined use of three basic control variables such as: froth depth, bias rate and gas holdup, some controllers such as PID ...
Different components of flotation columns, flotation mechanism and design parameters like flow regime, gas holdup, bubble size and its distribution, mixing characteristics and carrying capacity are critically discussed. ... Knowledge of flow regime plays an important role in design, operation, control, analysis, and scale-up of flotation …
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An efficient and simple control system for a decoupled flotation process is illustrated in Fig. 2. This block diagram shows a multiloop control system where the column flotation process is represented by three decoupled transfer functions, namely G h (s) for the froth layer height (whose input is U W), G ε g for the air holdup in the …
Since one of the specific control objectives in the column flotation process is to keep the froth layer height (h), the air holdup in the collection zone (ε gcz) and the bias (Q B) at desired values, by manipulating the wash water (Q W), the air (Q g) and non-floated fraction flowrates (Q T), the flotation column is often modelled as a ...
A column flotation cell is an industrial process used to recover mineral species of interest from the pulp of ore. The adoption of these cells by the mining industry is already a reality due to ...
An efficient and simple control system for a decoupled flotation process is illustrated in Fig. 2. This block diagram shows a multiloop control system where the …
The experience of developing, implementing and evaluating a hierarchical control strategy in a flotation column circuit at Salvador is discussed. The supervisory control system was installed in two columns in the copper cleaning circuit. Salvador concentrator produces over 200,000 tons per year of 30% copper concentrate.
CONCLUSIONS The objectives of column flotation control have been stated and discussed; these involve the control of level, bias rate, gas rate and the chemical environ- ment. The paper focussed on the control of level and bias rate. Weaknesses in currently used control methods arise mainly from a lack of accurate measure- ments of …
This control has been used to control a flotation column and compared with MPC and PI controllers; this study involves the design of an Adaptive Decoupling Controller (ADC) and compares its control performance with that of MPC and SISO PID controllers. The results indicated that, due to the weak coupling of variables in the …
A review of the trends and state of art in automation and control of flotation columns is presented. Besides the large number of columns installed in concentrators world-wide, there are a number of unsolved problems related to lack of instrumentation, lack of process knowledge, odd operating practices, and in general, lack of management and ...
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