Innovative Solutions for Measurements, Modelling and Control in Mineral Processing

Dear Colleagues,

The constantly growing presence of exponential technologies in everyday life, new solutions for green energy production, and the electric vehicle market expanding in the unprecedented rate that it does have all increased the need for primary and secondary material recovery. At the same time, mineral processing operations serve as significantly high-energy and cost-consuming processes which impact the environment. Thus, the economic and environmental issues point to the relevance of the efficiency of valuable material recovery. Percentage enlargement of valuable material in the final product improves profits. Lower energy and consumables related to a production unit increase the economic effects even more. Efficiency improvement of mineral processing remarkably affects the saving of natural resources, and reduction of CO₂ emission. Innovative solutions may also result in lower waste production, which in turn influences the environment.

The above objectives can be obtained by applying novel and more effective processing technologies, devices, and circuits but can also be achieved with operation optimization using dedicated measurements, modeling, and control techniques. This Special Issue of Minerals is dedicated to the latter and relates to Industry 4.0 solutions for mineral processing. Therefore, the Editors especially welcome papers describing research on indirect measurements, soft-sensing techniques, vision systems, IoT solutions, edge, fog and cloud computing, signal processing, static and dynamic modeling, digital twins, advanced control, and optimization techniques applied in any stage of the mineral processing operations. Industrial solutions are mostly welcomed; however, laboratory results and simulations involving industrial data are appreciated as well.

Dr. Szymon Ogonowski
Prof. Dr. Dariusz Foszcz
Guest Editors

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