Flotation in Water Technology

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.
13. Electroflotation.
14. Developments in flotation, optimalization, automatization and possibility of increase flotating technologies.