Solid-Liquid Separation in the Mining Industry / by Fernando Concha A.

Preface
-- Introduction
1.1 Communication
1.2 Concentration
11.3 Dewatering
etc
-- Theory of Mixtures.
2.1 Kinematrics
2.2 Dynamical processes
References

- Particulate Systems.
3.1 Dynamic process for a particular system
3.2 Dynamic process

-Sedimentation of Particulate Systems
4.1 Discrete sedimentation
REFERENCES

-- Kynch Theory of Sedimentation
5.1 Concept of an d=ideal suspension and an ideal thickener
5.2 Filed equation
5.3 Batch kynch sedimentation process

-- Flow Through Rigid Porous Media
6.1 Dynamic process of a single phase flow in rigid porous media
6.2 Dynamic process of a two phase flow through a rigid porous bed
References

-- Particle Aggregation by Coagulation and Flocculation
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Coagulation
7.3 Flocculation
etc
-- Thickening.-Filtration
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Equipment
8.3 Thickening theory
etc
-- Suspension Rheology
9.1 Definition equipment and operation
9.2 Filtration equipment
9.3 Filtration theory
etc

Suspension
10.1 Introduction to rheology
10.2 Constrictive equation
10.3 Rheometry
references

-- Transporting Concentrates and Tailings.
11.1 Transportation fluids in pipeline
11.2 Newtonian fluids
11.3 Mechanical energy balance

References : p428-429

This book covers virtually all of the engineering science and technological aspects of separating water from particulate solids in the mining industry. It starts with an introduction to the field of mineral processing and the importance of water in mineral concentrators. The consumption of water in the various stages of concentration is discussed, as is the necessity of recovering the majority of that water for recycling. The book presents the fundamentals under which processes of solid-liquid separation are studied, approaching mixtures of discrete finely divided solid particles in water as a basis for dealing with sedimentation in particulate systems. Suspensions, treated as continuous media, provide the basis of sedimentation, flows through porous media and filtration. The book also considers particle aggregations, and thickening is analyzed in depth. Lastly, two chapters cover the fundamentals and application of rheology and the transport of suspensions. This work is suitable for researchers and professionals in laboratories and plants, and can also serve as additional reading for graduate courses on solid liquid separation as well as for advanced undergraduate and graduate level students for courses of fluid mechanics, solid-liquid separation, thickening, filtration and transport of suspensions in tubes and channels.

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