Recent Advances in Beneficiation Technology of Coal and Associated Minerals

Dear Colleagues,

Coal is one of the most important primary energy sources. It has an important effect on the world’s economic development. However, the direct utilization of coal without separation will bring about serious environmental pollution. Coal beneficiation is the source technology of clean coal. It can effectively remove impurities such as ash, sulfur, and harmful elements, and enrich clean coal and associated minerals, which is of great significance to promoting the transformation of coal from traditional fuel to clean fuel, high-quality raw materials, and coal-based materials. Therefore, it is urgent to develop clean and efficient coal beneficiation technology. This Special Issue plans to offer an overview of the beneficiation technology of coal and associated minerals. This Special Issue is aimed at providing selected contributions on advances in dry separation, gravity separation, flotation, magnetic separation, electric separation, etc. Potential topics include but are not limited to dry beneficiation, intelligent gravity beneficiation, low-quality coal flotation, associated mineral separation, electric separation, magnetic separation.

Dr. Enhui Zhou
Guest Editor

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