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Ukončeno v akademickém roce 2019/2020

Mineral Processing I.

Type of study Follow-up MasterBachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 542-0337/04
Abbreviation Ú1
Course title Mineral Processing I.
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Mining Engineering and Safety
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Jiří Botula, Ph.D.

Osnova předmětu

Syllabus of lectures

1. Basic concepts from the field of treatment of minerals, tailings distribution processes
Separation second, definitions and basic concepts. Technological properties of minerals
3. The preparatory finishing processes, crushing machines
Fourth grinding, main types of mills and their use
5. Sorting, purpose, inclusion in the process of editing, machinery and equipment
6. Factors affecting the efficiency of separation
7. Gravity concentration, theoretical foundations and applications
8. Gravity concentration, separation of heavy suspensions
9. Gravity concentration, separation on jigs, sluices and hydrocyclones
10. Separation of magnetic and electric fields, theoretical foundations
11. Separation in the magnetic and electric field, machines, devices and applications
12. Physical-chemical separation processes, theoretical foundations flotation
13. Flotation reagents, types of flotation devices
14. Chemical methods for separating basic processes of chemical treatment
15. The auxiliary finishing processes
16. Thermal refining raw materials

Syllabus of exercises
1. Evaluation of mineral resources, technological properties of raw materials and products of processing, washability
2. Characteristics of the granular composition of the material
3. Screening analysis of aggregates, graphic presenting results
4. Determination crushability of material by determining the reduction ratio.
5. Screening analysis of fine-grained material in the wet
6. Determination of particle size distribution analysis by sedimentation Casagrande
7. Determination of specific weight
8. Evaluation of technological properties of coal, determination of ash and water
9. Gravity treatment of coal, float analysis
10. Determination yield of separation products
11. Evaluation of the effectiveness of separation
12. Flotation of coal
13. Evaluation of coal flotation
14. Flotation of polymetallic ores

Povinná literatura

Wills’ Mineral Processing Technology:An Introduction to the Practical Aspects of Ore Treatment and Mineral Recovery.Seventh Edition. 2006. ISBN:978-0-750-64450-1
FUERSTENAU,M.C., HAN,K.N.:Principles of Mineral Processing. 2003. Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration,Inc. ISBN 0-87335-167-3
DRZYMALA, Jan. Mineral processing: foundations of theory and practice of minerallurgy. Wroclaw: University of Technology, 2007. ISBN978-83-7493-362-9 .
GUPTA,A.,YAN,D.S.: Mineral Processing Design and Operation. An Introduction.Elsevier, 2006.ISBN:978-0-444-51636-7 

Doporučená literatura

KAWATRA, S. K. a Courtney YOUNG. SME mineral processing & extractive metallurgy handbook: volume one (and volume two). Englewood, Colorado: Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration, [2019]. ISBN 978-0-87335-385-4 .
SUBA RAO, D.V. Textbook of Mineral Processing. Scientific Publishers, 2017. ISBN 9789387741027 .
NPCS BOARD OF CONSULTANTS AND ENGINEERS, ed. The Complete Technology Book on Minerals & Mineral Processing. Delhi: Asia Pacific Bussines Press, 2008. ISBN 81-7833-016-4 .
A. GUPTA AND D.S. YAN. Mineral processing design and operation an introduction. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2006. ISBN 9780444516367 .