© N. Petróvskaya, 2007
My
book "Fundamentals of the theory of flotation" is one of the few
completely new theoretical books on flotation enrichment of minerals in the
world. In the book is reviewed and analyzed the main processes occurring in the
flotation system. My book presents all kinds of mineral flotation detail. Any
other book about the flotation in the world doesn’t have this.
I
tried to bring all of my industrial, university and scientific expertise in
this book of the fairly compact volume (192 pages).
The
book has a scientific novelty, and contains only the author's text and
illustrations. In the book "Fundamentals of the theory of flotation"
I present an affordable and popular form the quite complex theoretical issues,
unlike many books of other authors on the subject, often overwrought by
formulas and abstruse wording.
My
book is intended for a broad category of scientists, specialists, professors
and students.
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
Introduction
1. Fundamentals of flotation
separation
1.2.1. Variety of froth flotation
Froth
flotation
Froth
separation
Chemical
flotation
Flotation
by boiling water
Flotation
by waterfall
1.2.2. Oil flotation
1.2.5. Ionic flotation and molecular
flotation (fragment)
1.3. Historical information of
flotation separation
1.4. Sphere of using of flotation
separation (fragment)
2. Main parts of the flotation
system and characteristics of their interaction
2.2. Gas phase
2.3. Liquid phase
2.4. Interaction of the liquid and
gas phases
2.5. Interaction of the solid and
gas phases
2.6. Interaction of the solid and
liquid phases
2.7. Interaction of the phases of
the polar liquid and nonpolar
3. Wettability of mineral surface
3.1. Contact angle
3.2. Contact angle of the chemically
heterogene
ous surface
3.3. Equilibrium contact angle
3.4. Hysteretic contact angle
3.5. Selective contact angle
4. Processes in the flotation system
4.1.1. Evaluation of the use of
thermodynamic analysis in flotation separation
4.1.2. Stages of flotation separation
4.2. Fundamentals of sorption of
flotation reagents (fragment)
4.2.1. Varieties and forms sorption
of reagents in the mineral surface
4.2.2. Sorption on the border of the
solid and liquid phases
Surface connections
Three-dimensional connections
(films)
Sorption in the double electric
layer
4.3. Fundamentals of pulp aeration
4.3.1. General concepts
4.3.2. Aeration of pulp by air
dispersion
Aeration of pulp by air dispersion
by mechanical divices
Aeration of pulp by passing air
through a porous barrier
4.3.3. Aeration of pulp by the
bubbles that stood out from the water
Aeration of pulp by reducing the
partial pressure of gas above the pulp and with the heating the pulp
Aeration of pulp by the electrolytic
gas bubbles
Aeration of pulp by chemically
formed gas bubbles
4.4. General regularities of motion
of bubbles and particles
in a flotation system
4.4.1. Hydrodynamic processes in the
flotation pulp
4.4.2. Floating up of gas bubbles in
water (fragment)
4.4.3. Falling of mineral particles
in water
4.5. Formation of the flotation
complex
4.5.1. Main methods of formation of
the flotation complex
Collision of particle with a bubble
Skimming of the particles across the
surface of the bubble
Capture of particles by turbulent
flow of water in the aft part
of the bubble
Diffusion of the particles to the
surface of the bubble
Bubbling on the surface of the
particle
4.5.2. Thermodynamic analysis of
formation of the elementary flotation complex
4.5.3. Energy analysis of formation
of the elementary flotation complex
4.6. General regularities of the
rise of flotation complex to the surface
4.6.1. Terms of buoyancy of
flotation complex
4.6.2. Main methods of destruction
of flotation complex
4.6.3. Terms of preservation of
flotation complex
4.6.4. Influence of hysteresis of
the wetting to the preservation of f
lotation complex
4.7. Other processes in the
flotation pulp
4.7.1. Mechanical removal of
particles to the flotation foam
4.7.2. Coalescence of bubbles
4.7.3. Aggregation of particles in
the pulp
4.8. Processes in the flotation foam
4.8.1. Two-phase foam
4.8.2. Three-phase foam
4.8.3. Main parameters of foam
4.9. Separation of the flotation
products
5. Probability of flotation
separation
References
Subject
index
Fragments of the book:
Fundamentals of sorption of flotoreagents
The rate of rise of the bubble
