It is challenging to separate fluorite from calcite due to their same calcium activated sites on their surfaces. The copolymer of maleic and acylic acid (PMAA) was used to inhibit the calcite in the flotation of fluorite. Micro-flotation results exhibited that sodium oleate (NaOl) had a good ability to collect fluorite and calcite in the scope of pH 7-10. The PMAA treatment prior to NaOl selectively depressed the floatability of calcite while allowed the flotation of fluorite, and the artificial minerals mixture plotted that fluorite/calcite could be effectively separated in the presence of PMAA/NaOl. Zeta potential results suggested that NaOl collector was absorbed on the PMAA-conditioned calcite surface but did not adsorb on the PMAA-conditioned fluorite surface. XPS results and calculational chemistry revealed the chemical interaction occurred between calcite surface and PMAA which was attributed to the calcium ions of calcite surface interacting with -COOH group of PMAA.
Lizardite slime coating is one of significant factors in the deterioration of the floatability of sulphide minerals. In this study, a nanoparticle cationic polystyrene-co-poly(n-butylacrylate)(PS-PBNH) collector was introduced to eliminate the negative impact of lizardite slimes in pyrite flotation. Microflotation results demonstrated that lizardite slims did not affect the recovery of pyrite in the presence of PS-PBNH. Good flotation separation of pyrite from lizardite was achieved when the nanoparticle PS-PBNH collector was used. The results from adsorption study indicated that PS-PBNH exhibited a significant adsorption on the pyrite surface in the presence of lizardite slimes. Sedimentation tests showed that hetero-aggregation occurred between lizardite slimes and pyrite, whereas the introduction of PS-PBNH collector resulted in a heterogeneous dispersion between them. Zeta potential measurements suggested that PS-PBNH collector interacted with pyrite surface, and the PS-PBNH adsorption changed the surface charge of pyrite from negative to be positive. As a result, the interaction of pyrite with lizardite shifted from electrostatic attraction to electrostatic repulsion, as supported by the DLVO calculations. These results indicated PS-PBNH can be used as a potential collector for pyrite flotation in pyrite/lizardite slimes system without the need for a depressant.
It is necessary to exploit an easy and effective way to obtain flotation collector. In this paper, oleic acid was modified by oxidation reaction to obtain an excellent collector. The flotation performances of oleic acid and its oxidation products were systematically investigated and a novel collector ((E)-8,11-dihydroperoxyoctadec-9-enoic acid, EDEA) was obtained. Single mineral flotation tests results showed that EDEA had strong flotation power towards quartz at pH>11 and hardly floated hematite and magnetite at pH=8~13. The recovery of quartz could achieve 92.35% with 120 mg/L EDEA under the condition of pH=12 and dosage of CaCl2 60mg/L while the recovery was 62.44% with 120 mg/L oleic acid. Bench scale flotation tests results showed that EDEA had a preferable effect on separating quartz from iron ore especially at low flotation temperature (288K). The mechanism research revealed that EDEA attracted on quartz surface through electrostatic attraction and the neighboring EDEA molecules could form intermolecular hydrogen bonds which resulted in a closer alignment of EDEA on quartz surface.
As an organic acid with the characters of low corrosivity and extensive source, 5-sulfosalicylic acid (5-SSA) was firstly utilized as a potential leaching reagent for the recovery of zinc from metallurgical slag. Effects of stirring speed, leaching temperature, 5-SSA concentrations and size fraction on the leaching zinc leaching rate were investigated. A zinc leaching efficiency of 94.2% was achieved under the appropriate operating conditions (450 rpm of stirring speed, 50 ℃ of leaching temperature, 0.3 mol/L of 5-SSA concentration and d90=65 µm of size fraction), indicating that 5-SSA was an excellent leaching reagent of zinc oxide. SEM-EDS and specific surface aperture analyzer further reveal the well-developed micropores and cracks from zinc metallurgical slag, which could be assigned to the removal of zinc oxide encapsulated in the sample. In addition, the leaching kinetics of zinc metallurgical slag in the 5-SSA was studied. It was found that the surface chemical reaction model satisfactorily predicted the zinc leaching rate. A reaction kinetic equation was finally established for the zinc leaching rate.
The effect of lizardite on talc flotation when using carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) as a depressant was studied by micro-flotation experiments and adsorption measurements, zeta-potential measurements, magnesium ion dissolution analysis, and solution chemistry calculation. The results for the micro-flotation experiments showed that the addition of lizardite further decreased the floatability of talc at pH 8.5 when using CMC as the depressant. The mechanism was that magnesium ions dissolved from lizardite lattice, then formed hydrolyzed species of magnesium cations and interacted with talc surfaces, which promoted CMC adsorption, and thus decreasing talc floatability.
Flotation separation of chalcopyrite from talc is difficult because of the natural hydrophobicity of two minerals. In this work, the flotation separation of chalcopyrite from talc using N-carboxymethyl chitosan as a depressant for talc was studied. The micro-flotation results indicated that the flotation separation of chalcopyrite from talc cannot be realized effectively at pH 9 with low concentration of N-carboxymethyl chitosan, in the presence of calcium ions, talc was more efficiently depressed by N-carboxymethyl chitosan, while the chalcopyrite recovery was not influenced. Contact angle, zeta potential and adsorption results showed that Ca2+ and CaOH+ absorbed on the talc surface and increased the absorption amount of N-carboxymethyl chitosan on the mineral surface, and increased hydrophilicity of talc surface, resulting the selective depression for talc in chalcopyrite flotation.
Dynamic angle measurement (DAM) plays an important role in precision machining, aerospace, military and artificial intelligence. Because of its advantages including high sensitivity, solid state and miniaturization, fibre-optic gyroscope (FOG) has great application prospects in the field of DAM. In this paper, we propose a dynamic angle metrology method based on FOG and a rotary table to evaluate the DAM accuracy with FOG. The system synchronously collects data from the FOG and rotary table, and analyses the DAM accuracy of the FOG for different sway conditions compared with that of the angle obtained from the rotary table. An angle encoder in the rotary table provides absolute or incremental angular displacement output with angular displacement measurement accuracy of 10′′ (0:0028°) and angular displacement repeat positioning accuracy of 3′′ (0:00083°), and can be used as an angle reference. The experimental results show that the DAM accuracy of the FOG is better than 0:0028° obtained with the angular encoder, and the absolute DAM accuracy of the FOG is better than 0:0048° for given conditions. At the same time, for the multi-path signal synchronization problem in the metrology field, this paper proposes a signal delay measurement method combining test and algorithm procedures, which can control a delay within 25 μs.
An isogeometric boundary element method is applied to simulate wave scattering problems governed by the Helmholtz equation. The NURBS (non-uniform rational B-splines) widely used in the CAD (computer aided design) field is applied to represent the geometric model and approximate physical field variables. The Burton-Miller formulation is used to overcome the fictitious frequency problem when using a single Helmholtz boundary integral equation for exterior boundary-value problems. The singular integrals existing in Burton-Miller formulation are evaluated directly and accurately using Hadamard’s finite part integration. Fast multipole method is applied to accelerate the solution of the system of equations. It is demonstrated that the isogeometric boundary element method based on NURBS performs better than the conventional approach based on Lagrange basis functions in terms of accuracy, and the use of the fast multipole method both retains the accuracy for isogeometric boundary element method and reduces the computational cost.
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