Mineral Flotation-Fundamentals for Improved Application
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 2372
Special Issue Editor
Interests: mineral flotation; chemistry of mineral surfaces and their interaction with industrial reagents; colloidal surface and interface science as applied to flotation technology
Special Issue Information
Mineral flotation has remained one of the primary methods of mineral beneficiation for over a century. However, the minerals industry and flotation practice are facing technical challenges like never before. At the same time, fundamental developments within the field of mineral flotation have been steadily progressing.
This Special Issue titled “Mineral Flotation—Fundamentals for Improved Application” aims to gauge how recent developments in the fundamental understanding of mineral flotation can generate better outcomes for industrial application. This Special Issue will provide an opportunity for researchers to share and discuss new ways in which their research can affect future change in mineral flotation practice.
Authors are invited to submit original research articles, review articles, and significant preliminary communications covering a range of topics and scopes. The articles could focus on any aspect of mineral flotation, as long as they demonstrate the applicability of fundamental knowledge to plant practice in the short, medium or long term. Topics could include (but are not limited to):
- Development of novel flotation reagents
- Surface and colloid chemistry effects on mineral flotation
- Novel instrumentation and analysis techniques
- Mineral surface and geochemistry
- Process modeling
- Hydrodynamics and their effect on equipment design
- Flow rheology
- Novel flotation technologies
Dr. Liza Forbes
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Mineral flotation
- Fundamental understanding
- Novel developments
- Industrial application
