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Terminated in academic year 2011/2012

Flotation of Mineral Raw Materials and Wastes

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0435/01
Abbreviation FNSO
Course title Flotation of Mineral Raw Materials and Wastes
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Silvie Heviánková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
1. Principle of flotation, its historical trend and utility, terminology.
2. Phase in flotation process (solid, liquid and gaseous), flotability as a property of
solid phase, methodology of its determination.
3. Surface effects on phase contacts, the study of phase boundary (liquid-gas,
solid-gas, solid-liquid). Thermodynamic characteristic of flotation process.
Electrochemical characteristic of solid-liquid interphase.
4. Physical principles of flotation process. Size of bubbles and size of
grains in flotation process.
5. Kinetics of flotation.
6. Chemical principles of flotation process. Flotation agents and its
properties.
7. Flotation collectors and its chemical composition.
8. Flotation frothing agents and its chemicall properties.
9. Directive flotation agents and their properties.
10. Flotation devices.
11. Technology of flotation process and its evaluation.
12. Classification of various technological flotation operation. Technology of
coal flotation, ore and non ore materials flotation.
14. Developments in flotation, optimalization, automatization and possibility of
increase flotating technologies.

Excercises:
5 papers (experiments in laboratory scale). Contens of excercises is testing
of flotability and optimalization flotating process of black coal sluries, Cu-S or Pb-
Zn ores, graphite or another materials.

Literature

FUERSTENAU, M. (ed.), G. JAMESON (ed.) a R.YOON (ed.). Froth Flotation A Century of Innovation. Colorado: Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, 2007. ISBN 978-0-87335-252-9.
FUERSTENAU, M. (ed.), G. JAMESON (ed.) a R.YOON (ed.). Froth Flotation A Century of Innovation. Colorado: Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, 2007. ISBN 978-0-87335-252-9.
MATIS, K. A. Flotation science and engineering. New York: M. Dekker, c1995. ISBN 0824792645.
CROZIER, D.,R. Flotation-Theory,Reagents and Ore Testing. 1992. Pergamon, 1992. ISBN 0-08-041864-3.

Advised literature

RUBINSTEIN, J., B. Column flotation: Volume 2, Processes, designs and practices. Switzerland: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1995. ISBN 2-88124-917-5.
RAO, S.,R. Surface chemistry of froth flotation Vol. I - Basic principles. New York: Kluwe Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1982. ISBN 0-306-48178-2.
RAO, S.,R. RAO, S., R. Surface chemistry of froth flotation Vol. II - Reagents and mechanisms. New York: Kluwe Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1982. ISBN 0-306-48179-0.
Science database Scopus, Web of Science, Science Direct