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Terminated in academic year 2019/2020

Raw Material Processing

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0372/02
Abbreviation UNS
Course title Raw Material Processing
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator Ing. Miluše Hlavatá, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Purpose of raw material preparation (Classification of basic preparation processes)
2. Preparatory processes – methods of mechanical loosening, crushing and grinding, sorting
3.Crushing and grinding – facilities for crushing and grinding, their classification, function and construction types.
4. Sizing – basic methods of sizing, classification of sorters, suitability of the individual type application
5. Main dressing processes, classification according to the principles and fundahgmental technological features.
6. hgGravity technology of separation – process substance, possible applications
7. Magnetic and electric separation – principles and facilities, special methods of separation
8. Physical-chemical methods of separation – technological characteristics
9. Complementary processes – classification and characteristics
10. Thickening and dewatering of fine-grained products
11. Facilities for dewatering (bins, sorters, centrifuges)
12. Principle of vacuum, hyperbaric and pressure filtration.
13. Processes of briquetting, agglomeration, pelletization.

Literature

Jan Drzymala: Mineral Processing. Foundations of theory and practice of minerallurgy. Wydawnictwo politechniki Wroclawskiej, Wroclaw, 2007, p. 507. ISBN: 978-83-7493-362-9 

Advised literature

9th Conference on Environment and Mineral Processing : 23.6.- 25.6.2005, VŠB-TU Ostrava, Czech Republic. Part I, II
10th Conference on Environment and Mineral Processing : 22.6.- 24.6.2006, VŠB-TU Ostrava, Czech Republic. Part I, II,III
11th Conference on Environment and Mineral Processing : 31.5.- 2.6.2007, VŠB-TU Ostrava, Czech Republic. Part I,II,III
Abstracts and full papers of plenary and keynote lectures of the XXII International Mineral Processing Congress : Cape Town, South Africa, 29
September - 3 October 2003