40 results about "Froth flotation" patented technology

The invention provides a dosage prediction method and system based on multi-mode flotation froth digital characterization, and relates to the technical field of froth flotation. The method comprises the following steps: collecting multi-modal data of a foam state in a metal ore flotation process, wherein the multi-modal data comprises an RGB image, a video sequence and a three-dimensional point cloud; constructing three foam feature extraction networks, and respectively extracting RGB features, video dynamic features and three-dimensional point cloud features of the multi-modal data; fusing the extracted RGB features, the video dynamic features and the three-dimensional point cloud features based on a cross-modal attention mechanism to generate multi-modal features; constructing an expert knowledge base, wherein the expert knowledge base comprises structured rules and historical cases; and constructing a dosage decision model based on an expert knowledge base and a large language model, converting the multi-modal features into standardized vector representation, retrieving the expert knowledge base by utilizing similarity matching, and generating a dosage adjustment strategy. According to the invention, accurate prediction from foam multi-mode characteristics to dosage adjustment can be realized.

The invention discloses a normal-temperature efficient recovery method for low-grade tungsten in gold, antimony and tungsten multi-metal symbiotic ore. The method comprises the steps that raw ore is ground and then subjected to shaking table reselection, reselected concentrate, reselected middling and reselected tailings are obtained, foam flotation is conducted on the reselected middling, sulfide ore is floated out, coarse-grain tungsten minerals are recycled through reselection of the flotation tailings, ore grinding is conducted on the reselected tailings, gold and antimony bulk flotation is conducted, then scheelite flotation and tungsten concentrate flotation are conducted under the action of a combined collecting agent, and finally tungsten concentrate is obtained. According to the method, aiming at the characteristic that the granularity of the tungsten mineral in the gold-antimony-tungsten symbiotic ore is uneven in thickness distribution, a proper ore grinding separation process and proper ore grinding fineness are selected, the tungsten mineral is prevented from being over-crushed, and underground wastewater is reasonably utilized, so that the use amount of clear water is effectively reduced, and meanwhile, the underground wastewater is recycled; furthermore, an ore pulp heating process is omitted in the tungsten ore concentration stage, the fuel cost is greatly reduced, and therefore the production cost is greatly reduced on the premise that the tungsten concentrate recovery rate is guaranteed.

The utility model discloses a coal mine flotation froth mobile identification device, which relates to the technical field of froth flotation, and comprises a mobile assembly, an automatic identification probe and a cleaning assembly, and the cleaning assembly is arranged above the automatic identification probe; the cleaning assembly comprises an air heater, a cleaning brush assembly and a transverse driving assembly, the air heater and the cleaning brush assembly are installed at the bottom end of the transverse driving assembly, the cleaning brush assembly is used for cleaning the automatic recognition probe, the transverse driving assembly comprises a transverse plate installed on the moving assembly, and the transverse plate is arranged above the automatic recognition probe. The transverse plate is slidably sleeved with a connecting plate, an air heater and a cleaning brush assembly are installed at the bottom end of the connecting plate, an inverted L-shaped frame is installed at the top end of the moving assembly, and a driving part is movably installed between the connecting plate and the L-shaped frame; the problems that in the prior art, after foam is scraped out by a foam scraping plate, water flow sprayed on the side conveys the foam together, in the spraying process, the water flow impacts a concentrate tank, water flow splashed on the tank wall is prone to being sprayed to an automatic recognition probe, and the recognition effect of the probe is affected are solved.

Modifier compositions, improved sparge compositions for froth flotation separation containing the modifier compositions, and improved methods of froth flotation using the modifier compositions have been developed, as well as kits including the modifier composition for industrial use. The modifier compositions obtain both improved yield and a higher grade of a targeted mineral product in froth flotation of one or more phosphate, lithium, and / or iron ores, while avoiding excess foam formation during the flotation.

Methods of improving the stability of froth flotation overflows and underflows include adding 1 ppm to 1000 ppm by weight of a cationic polymer to an overflow or an underflow including 1 wt% to 20 wt % of a particulate product in a medium, wherein the particulate product is a valuable mineral product or a gangue. In particular, the addition of cationic polymer to a tailings flow – that is, a gangue in a fluid medium - reduces or eliminates "sanding", a term of art used to describe the technical problem of deposition of gangue solids from tailings flows transported through pipes, tubes, and runways during transportation thereof e.g. to a thickener bed.

The present invention discloses a treatment method for improving the recovery and separation of carbonaceous materials in stone coal vanadium ore, comprising the following steps: 1) heating and activating the stone coal vanadium ore, cold quenching and pulping fine grinding to obtain a pulp; 2) flotation of the pulp to enrich and recover the carbonaceous materials. The present invention pre-treats the stone coal vanadium ore by using an additive heating activation method combined with cold quenching and pulping fine grinding, effectively improving the degree of dissociation of carbonaceous materials from gangue and improving the flotation effect, recovering the carbonaceous resources in stone coal, and making comprehensive use of stone coal resources; then enriching and recovering the carbonaceous materials in the stone coal vanadium ore by froth flotation, reducing the impact of carbonaceous materials on leaching and vanadium extraction, avoiding the pollution caused by roasting and decarbonization, and having great environmental and economic advantages; at the same time, the carbonaceous concentrate is separated from the stone coal vanadium ore by froth flotation technology, which can be used as fuel or combustion ingredients for power generation and heat supply, thereby achieving clean, environmentally friendly, and energy-saving emission reduction of stone coal vanadium extraction.

Methods of improving the stability of froth flotation overflows and underflows include adding 1 ppm to 1000 ppm by weight of a cationic polymer to an overflow or an underflow including 1 wt % to 20 wt % of a particulate product in a medium, wherein the particulate product is a valuable mineral product or a gangue. In particular, the addition of cationic polymer to a tailings flow—that is, a gangue in a fluid medium-reduces or eliminates “sanding”, a term of art used to describe the technical problem of deposition of gangue solids from tailings flows transported through pipes, tubes, and runways during transportation thereof e.g. to a thickener bed.

The subject invention provides safe, environmentally-friendly, compositions and methods for extracting minerals and / or metals from rock, ore, tailings, and / or coal combustion wastes. More specifically, the subject invention provides for enhanced froth flotation, including direct flotation or reverse flotation, of rock, ore, tailings, and / or coal fly ash using a composition comprising one or more biosurfactants.

Improved partitioning compositions for froth flotation of mineral ores, and improved methods of froth flotation using the partitioning compositions have been developed. The partitioning compositions are suitably added to a mineral ore slurry in a single addition to provide a sparge composition that is ready for sparging. The use of the partitioning compositions obviates the need to adjust the pH of the ore slurry before or after the addition, and further avoids the use of compounds having a flashpoint of 60 °C or less. Meanwhile, the partitioning compositions obtain improved grade and recovery of phosphate product (P2O5) in froth flotation of phosphate ores, when compared to conventional chemistry and methods used for froth flotation of a phosphate ores.

The application provides a method and system for predicting the amount of reagent based on multi-modal flotation froth digital characterization, relating to the technical field of froth flotation. The method comprises: collecting multi-modal data of the froth state in the metal ore flotation process, including RGB images, video sequences and three-dimensional point clouds; constructing three froth feature extraction networks to extract the RGB features, video dynamic features and three-dimensional point cloud features of the multi-modal data respectively; fusing the extracted RGB features, video dynamic features and three-dimensional point cloud features based on a cross-modal attention mechanism to generate multi-modal features; constructing an expert knowledge base, which includes structured rules and historical cases; constructing a reagent dosage decision model based on the expert knowledge base and a large language model, converting the multi-modal features into standardized vector representations, retrieving the expert knowledge base using similarity matching, and generating a reagent dosage adjustment strategy. The application can realize accurate prediction from froth multi-modal features to reagent dosage adjustment.

The invention discloses a method for enriching aluminum oxide by using silicon ore tailings and preparing a mullite refractory material. The method comprises the steps that firstly, silicon ore tailings are subjected to ball milling till the content of the-74-micron particle fraction is 60%-70%, then foam flotation treatment is conducted, and efficient separation of aluminum-containing minerals and gangue is achieved by adjusting the pH value of ore pulp, the concentration of the ore pulp, the using amount of a collecting agent, the air amount, the thickness of a foam layer and other technological parameters. When the content of aluminum oxide in the tailings is insufficient, fly ash, bauxite tailings, low-grade bauxite or waste refractory material powder can be added as supplementary raw materials. And finally, aluminum-rich concentrates with the aluminum oxide content of 63 + / -1%, 67 + / -1%, 73 + / -1% and 75 + / -1% are obtained, and homogenized materials of different grades are formed. And the obtained concentrate is subjected to vacuum pugging, molding, drying and sintering to prepare the mullite or corundum-mullite refractory product with excellent performance.

The invention relates to the technical field of mineral flotation, in particular to a copper sulfide molybdenum ore bulk flotation device and method. The copper sulfide molybdenum ore bulk flotation device is used for conducting froth flotation on ore pulp and comprises a main body, an impeller mechanism and a scraper mechanism, the impeller mechanism is arranged in the center of the main body and stirs liquid in the main body and generates micro-nano bubbles, and the copper sulfide molybdenum ore bulk flotation device further comprises a feeding and mixing mechanism, at least one set of mixing device is arranged between the impeller mechanism and the scraper mechanism and comprises a mixing shell, a slurry inlet disc, a mixing pipe and a collecting agent storage assembly. And the confluence mixing mechanism is arranged in the mixing shell and comprises a confluence plate and a multidirectional mixing assembly. According to the copper sulfide molybdenum ore bulk flotation device, the flotation effect can be guaranteed under the condition that the using amount of a collecting agent is reduced. Moreover, the proportion of the collecting agent is further adjusted, the adhesion selectivity of copper and molybdenum minerals is improved, and therefore the use amount of the needed composite collecting agent is reduced under the condition that the flotation effect is guaranteed.

The present invention relates to compositions that are stable over time in an aqueous medium and comprise thionocarbamate-derived compounds, and to the preparation method thereof. The invention also relates to aqueous collector compositions that are stable for extended periods of time and suitable for use in processes involving the froth flotation of sulfide minerals for the extraction of valuable metals, the compositions comprising compounds derived from thionocarbamate that are stable in an aqueous medium, compounds derived from mono- and dithiophosphates, stable ionic xanthate solutions and lignin.

This invention relates to a controlled-foam flotation method for fine-grained zinc oxide ore, belonging to the field of mineral processing technology. Addressing the problems of deteriorating separation indices due to slime recycling, large and poorly fluid foam, stable and highly viscous foam layers, and poor flotation performance in the flotation process of fine-grained zinc oxide ore, this invention improves the flotation process and recovery indices by innovating the flotation process and developing novel flotation reagents. Specifically, it employs a fine scavenging operation to process middlings separately, avoiding their return to roughing and cleaning operations, thus preventing repeated recycling of slime in these operations and directly producing zinc concentrate. Furthermore, it uses a foam control agent to regulate the flotation foam of fine-grained zinc oxide ore, thereby increasing its ore-carrying capacity and improving the stability, viscosity, and fluidity of the foam layer. This facilitates the smooth flotation process of fine-grained zinc oxide ore, achieving higher flotation indices and promoting the efficient recovery of complex and difficult-to-process zinc ore resources.

The utility model belongs to the technical field of gas purification, and particularly relates to a desulfurization regeneration tank liquid level adjusting and froth flotation device which comprises a communicating pipe, the top of the communicating pipe is fixedly connected with an outer cylinder, the top of the outer cylinder is connected with an upper cover, the top of the upper cover is provided with a balance air inlet, and a threaded rod penetrates through the top of the upper cover in a threaded mode. According to the utility model, the shifting block shifts the movable block to drive the bayonet lock to contract, then the indicating rod is inserted from the first connecting sleeve, penetrates through the upper cover and then is inserted into the second connecting sleeve, at the moment, the shifting block is loosened, and the bayonet lock pops up under the action of the spring and is inserted into the bayonet lock, so that the indicating rod is mounted and fixed; in the process that the electric screw lifter drives the threaded rod to rotate to adjust the height of the inner cylinder, the annular sleeve can rotate along the interior of the annular groove, so that the top of the connecting rod can drive the indicating rod to ascend and descend together, and then the height of the inner cylinder can be accurately checked according to the position of the graduated scale; and the practicability of the device is improved.

Methods of improving the stability of froth flotation overflows and underflows include adding 1 ppm to 1000 ppm by weight of a cationic polymer to an overflow or an underflow including 1 wt% to 20 wt % of a particulate product in a medium, wherein the particulate product is a valuable mineral product or a gangue. In particular, the addition of cationic polymer to a tailings flow – that is, a gangue in a fluid medium - reduces or eliminates "sanding", a term of art used to describe the technical problem of deposition of gangue solids from tailings flows transported through pipes, tubes, and runways during transportation thereof e.g. to a thickener bed.

The invention relates to the field of nonmetallic mineral processing, in particular to a froth flotation method for barium sulfate minerals. The invention discloses a formula for an agent for barite flotation. Sodium oleate (lauryl sodium sulfate) is used as a collecting agent, water glass is used as an inhibitor, terpilenol is used as a foaming agent, the content of barium sulfate in barite mineral powder in foam flotation can be increased by adjusting the content of the collecting agent and the content of the inhibitor, and impurities are enriched in tailings. The collecting agent for barite flotation is prepared from the following raw materials in percentage by weight: 0.05 to 0.1 percent of sodium oleate (lauryl sodium sulfate) and 0.1 to 0.2 percent of water glass; the flotation agent is high in selectivity and strong in ore loading capacity, and can achieve an excellent flotation effect on barite ore in Longnan Wenxian County, Gansu Province, and concentrate with higher purity and higher recovery rate are obtained. The density of the purified barite powder is remarkably improved, and the obtained barite product can meet the density requirements of grade II products and even grade I products as a weighting agent of drilling mud. The method is simple in process, excellent in collecting agent effect, low in cost, environmentally friendly and capable of being deployed in factories on a large scale.

The present invention provides methods and composition for improving a froth flotation process for the removal of mineral values from aqueous solutions. The method uses mercaptide microemulsions to improve the separation effectiveness of a collector. The present invention provides a method of enhancing the performance of a collector in a froth flotation separation of mineral ore in a medium, the method comprising the steps of: forming a slurry by blending a collector microemulsion, the mineral ore in a medium, and optionally other additives, —and removing concentrate from the ore by sparging the slurry; wherein the collector microemulsion comprises a continuous phase which is an aqueous carrier fluid and a dispersed phase comprises a mercaptide.

The application discloses a method for recovering phosphate in a digestion sludge system and separating products. The method uses the difference between the hydrophilicity and hydrophobicity of the vivianite particles and the digestion sludge in the digestion sludge system, uses a collector to improve the hydrophobicity of the vivianite, uses an inhibitor to improve the hydrophilicity of other impurity particles such as silicon dioxide, separates the vivianite particles and the impurities such as silicon dioxide in the digestion sludge through a froth flotation method, and can realize efficient separation and recovery of phosphorus resources.

A terpolymer composition, and method of preparing the same, said terpolymer composition comprising 5 to 90 mol% of recurring units having an uncharged functional group, 5 to 40 mol% of recurring units having a sulfur-containing functional group, and 5 to 90 mol% of recurring units having a charged functional group, based on total mols of the terpolymer composition, wherein the terpolymer composition comprises a weight averaged molecular weight (Mw) in a range of 1000 Da to 15000 Da. The present invention also relates to a method of selectively recovering sulfide minerals comprising conditioning a process ore slurry with the terpolymer composition, and conducting a froth flotation process to separate the process ore slurry into a non-value mineral stream and a value mineral stream.

Improved partitioning compositions for froth flotation of mineral ores, and improved methods of froth flotation using the partitioning compositions have been developed. The partitioning compositions are suitably added to a mineral ore slurry in a single addition to provide a sparge composition that is ready for sparging. The use of the partitioning compositions obviates the need to adjust the pH of the ore slurry before or after the addition, and further avoids the use of compounds having a flashpoint of 60° C. or less. Meanwhile, the partitioning compositions obtain improved grade and recovery of phosphate product (P2O5) in froth flotation of phosphate ores, when compared to conventional chemistry and methods used for froth flotation of a phosphate ores.

The invention provides an undersampling-based froth flotation working condition identification method and related equipment. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring historical froth image samples under normal working conditions as majority class samples and historical froth image samples under abnormal working conditions as minority class samples; inputting the majority of samples into the constructed multi-target optimization under-sampling model, and solving the multi-target optimization under-sampling model through a binary multi-target state transition algorithm to obtain an optimal Pareto solution set; for each undersampling result in the optimal Pareto solution set, merging the undersampling results with minority class samples to obtain a training set to train the base classifiers, and obtaining a working condition identification model integrated by a plurality of base classifiers; the foam image data collected in real time in the industrial production process are input into the working condition recognition model for working condition recognition, and a working condition recognition result in the industrial production process is obtained; and the recognition precision and the classification confidence coefficient of minority class abnormal working conditions are remarkably improved while the high overall recognition rate is kept.

The present application relates to the technical field of separation equipment, and discloses a fragrance separation equipment based on a froth flotation structure, which comprises a separation tower, a defoaming device for scraping off foam is arranged at the top end of the inner wall of the separation tower, a discharge port for discharging fragrance foam is arranged at the outer side of the top end of the separation tower, and a gas distributor is arranged at the bottom end of the separation tower, wherein the gas distributor comprises a perforated plate and a distribution plate arranged in a vertical mode, and the top end of the perforated plate is fixedly connected with the bottom end of the defoaming device. The present application is provided with a periodic change of the overlapping area of the small through hole and the large slot, which is equivalent to the dynamic adjustment of the cross-sectional area of the gas channel. The cross-sectional area change when the gas passes through will cause flow velocity fluctuation, so as to form turbulent flow in the hole channel. The flow velocity change causes pressure fluctuation, promotes the more uniform diffusion of the gas in the downstream space, avoids the formation of local high-pressure or low-pressure areas, and the indirect effect of the anti-blocking function on the gas flow will reduce the actual flow area due to the particle accumulation.

The utility model discloses a kind of mineral processing froth trough for flotation workshop, belong to mineral processing froth trough field, it includes froth trough main body, the side fixed connection of froth trough main body has connecting frame, the side fixed connection of connecting frame has protective shell, the side fixed connection of protective shell has connecting block, the side fixed connection of connecting block has motor;Through the cooperation of above each device, through the motor of being set and through connecting block symmetry fixed in protective shell, cooperate the adaptive design of protection shaft and motor output shaft, effectively reduce the shaking and vibration when motor operates, ensure that mixed plate stable agitator slurry.Meanwhile, the heat generated by the multiple heat dissipation openings on the protective shell can be dissipated in time, preventing the performance of the motor from being degraded due to high temperature, thereby ensuring the continuous and efficient operation of the mineral processing froth trough, improving the mixing and flotation of minerals, and ensuring the recovery rate and grade of mineral processing.

The invention discloses a method for identifying unknown working conditions of froth flotation based on pseudo-label contrast learning. The method comprises key links such as acquisition and processing of froth videos, generation and optimization of pseudo-labels, feature alignment and model training. For a target domain sample, a pseudo tag and confidence are generated, and a high-confidence sample and a low-confidence sample are optimized according to the confidence. A high-confidence sample improves the generalization ability of the model through data enhancement, and a low-confidence sample generates a pseudo tag through clustering and identifies an unknown category. And in combination with the constructed pseudo tag queue, feature alignment of a source domain and a target domain is realized by adopting a comparative learning method, so that the classification precision of the model on known categories and the recognition capability on unknown categories are enhanced. According to the method, the dependence on manual labeling is reduced, the unknown working condition recognition problem caused by working condition complexity and uncertainty in the flotation industry is effectively solved, and intelligent development of the flotation process is promoted.

A method and apparatus for separating selected particles from a mixture of particles in a fluid, the method including the steps of: forming a substantially uniform mixture of liquid, gas bubbles with attached selected particles and non-selected particles in a contacting vessel; conditioning the liquid mixture so as to hydrophobize the selected particles; feeding the mixture from the contacting vessel to a rotating separation vessel where the mixture is subject to centrifugal forces and separates into a layer of froth containing bubbles with attached selected particles overlaying a layer that consists essentially of liquid and particles that have not attached to bubbles; removing the froth layer including the selected particles as the flotation concentrate; and collecting the underlying liquid stream as the tailings.

Described herein are methods of reducing the viscosity of products of sulfide ore froth flotation. A froth overflow, or an underflow of sulfide ore flotation is treated using a nonionic compound to reduce the viscosity of a froth or an underflow. The lowered viscosity imparts several benefits in sulfide ore processing of copper and molybdenum metal products, including increased rate of sedimentation to yield a concentrated product.

The invention relates to the field of mineral flotation, in particular to a high-efficiency foaming mineral flotation device which comprises a supporting frame, a rotating cylinder, an upper cover, a sliding frame, a large spring, a motor, a speed reducer, a power wheel mechanism and a pulley, the rotating cylinder is arranged on one side of the top of the supporting frame and comprises a cylinder body and a power plate, and the power plate capable of moving up and down is arranged in the cylinder body. An air inlet pipe is arranged in the center of the lower end of the barrel, annular peripheral teeth are arranged on the side face of the barrel, an air inlet cavity is formed in the barrel and communicated with the air inlet pipe, three sets of bubble generators are evenly arranged on the inner wall of the barrel, a transmission mechanism meshed with the barrel is arranged on one side of the barrel, the transmission mechanism is in linkage with a speed reducer, and the speed reducer is in transmission with a power wheel mechanism. The power wheel mechanism is arranged on one side of the rotating cylinder and connected with the pulley through a traction rope, and the other end of the traction rope bypasses the pulley and is fixed to the sliding frame. The power plate capable of moving up and down sweeps the elastic brush to generate vibration, and strong ejection is formed for foaming.

Modifier compositions, improved sparge compositions for froth flotation separation containing the modifier compositions, and improved methods of froth flotation using the modifier compositions have been developed, as well as kits including the modifier composition for industrial use. The modifier compositions obtain both improved yield and a higher grade of a targeted mineral product in froth flotation of one or more phosphate, lithium, and / or iron ores, while avoiding excess foam formation during the flotation.

The invention discloses a method for high-value utilization of coal gangue and oily sludge. The method comprises the following steps: 1) raw material pretreatment: adding water into coal gangue to prepare slurry, and then conveying the slurry to a ball mill for ball milling treatment; shearing and stirring the oily sludge to a uniform flowing state; (2) size mixing: mixing the pretreated coal gangue with the oily sludge, then carrying out size mixing, and then adding a regulator, an inhibitor and a foaming agent; (3) collaborative flotation: carrying out foam flotation on the pulp subjected to pulp mixing, scraping out a formed mineralized foam layer, and carrying out filter pressing and dehydration to obtain high-calorific-value power fuel; the flotation tailings are directly used for preparing the porous ceramsite after being dehydrated and aged. According to the method, oil substances in the oil-containing sludge are used as the flotation collecting agent to replace a commercial collecting agent, so that the flotation cost is remarkably reduced, and meanwhile, resource utilization of oil in the oil-containing sludge is realized; and meanwhile, oil in the oily sludge serves as an'in-situ 'collecting agent and makes contact with coal gangue carbon more sufficiently, the collecting efficiency is high, and the carbon recovery rate can be increased easily.