The invention relates to a lignite
separation process, and belongs to
coal washing methods. The lignite
separation process comprises the following steps of: desliming broken lignite; putting obtained screen underflows into size mixing equipment to perform size mixing; outputting obtained waste rocks, crushing obtained middling
coal in a
crusher, putting the crushed middling
coal into an ore
grinding machine, putting a product after ore
grinding into the size mixing equipment to perform size mixing, putting obtained cleaned coal into a
sieve bend and a grading and
dewatering screen for
dewatering and grading, and putting screening water into a cleaned coal thickener; outputting lumpish cleaned coal obtained by the grading and
dewatering screen, and putting fine cleaned coal into a
centrifuge for dewatering again; outputting low-water fine cleaned coal obtained by the
centrifuge, and putting centrifugate into the cleaned coal thickener; putting foams obtained through
reverse flotation into a coal slime pressure filter for pressure filtering, and putting underflow into the cleaned coal thickener for thickening; putting filtrate obtained by the coal slime press filter into a circulating
pool, and outputting filter cakes as coal slimes; putting overflow of the thickener into the circulating
pool, and putting the underflow into a cleaned coal pressure filter for pressure filtering; and putting the filtrate into the circulating
pool. The lignite
separation process integrates desliming, jigging, dewatering, regrinding of the middling coal, reverse floating and coal slime water purifying, and is concise, low in investment and operation cost, and high in economic benefit.