Significant Improvement in the Scheelite Heating Flotation with Sodium Sulfide
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Materials
2.2. Experimental Procedures
2.2.1. Scheelite Heating Flotation Experiments
2.2.2. Industrial Tests
2.2.3. Adsorption Amount Analysis
2.2.4. FTIR Analysis
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. Scheelite Heating Flotation Experiments
3.1.1. Effect of Desorption Reagent Dose on Scheelite Heating Flotation
3.1.2. Closed-Circuit Experiment Results
3.2. Industrial Tests
3.3. Adsorption Amount Analysis
3.3.1. Effect of Desorption Reagents Dose on the Change in the Adsorption Amount
3.3.2. Effect of Temperature on the Change in the Adsorption Amount
3.4. FTIR Analysis
4. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Items | Price [$/t] | June | July | August | ||||
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Mass [t] | Total [$] | Mass [t] | Total [$] | Mass [t] | Total [$] | |||
Product profit | WO3 | 20,000 | 181 | 3,620,000 | 194 | 3,880,000 | 195 | 3,900,000 |
Reagent cost | Na2S | 350 | 19 | 6650 | 30 | 10,500 | 32 | 11,200 |
Water glass | 120 | 370 | 44,400 | 350 | 42,000 | 345 | 41,400 | |
Profit [$] | 3,568,950 | 3,827,500 | 3,847,400 |
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Kang, J.; Liu, Y.; Ahmed Khoso, S.; Hu, Y.; Sun, W.; Liu, R. Significant Improvement in the Scheelite Heating Flotation with Sodium Sulfide. Minerals 2018, 8, 587. https://doi.org/10.3390/min8120587
Kang J, Liu Y, Ahmed Khoso S, Hu Y, Sun W, Liu R. Significant Improvement in the Scheelite Heating Flotation with Sodium Sulfide. Minerals. 2018; 8(12):587. https://doi.org/10.3390/min8120587
Chicago/Turabian StyleKang, Jianhua, Yuanchao Liu, Sultan Ahmed Khoso, Yuehua Hu, Wei Sun, and Runqing Liu. 2018. "Significant Improvement in the Scheelite Heating Flotation with Sodium Sulfide" Minerals 8, no. 12: 587. https://doi.org/10.3390/min8120587