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

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.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Electrical Engineering

Year dc:date.issued

1989

Author dc:creator

• Alberts, P A

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Downing, B J

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8338

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/8338