Development of an automatic system to monitor the performance of a dense medium (mineral) separation process

Master Thesis

1989

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Alberts, P A
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Downing, B J
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University of Cape Town

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Department of Electrical Engineering
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Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
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Abstract
Dense Medium Separation (DMS) is a process used extensively in the minerals processing industry to separate dense from less dense material in a dense fluid. It may be considered to be a simple “sink-float” separation process. DMS is used on a large scale in South African coal, iron ore and diamond operations. There are, however, no commercially available systems that can determine the separation efficiency of a DMS process on-line. This presents severe problems to those operating DMS processes. The present study attempts to provide a measurement technique for on-line application.
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Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Alberts, P. 1989. Development of an automatic system to monitor the performance of a dense medium (mineral) separation process. University of Cape Town.

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