Modeling in Mineral and Coal Processing
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 12 May 2026 | Viewed by 2
Special Issue Editors
Interests: coal processing; gravity concentration; magnetic separation; electrical separation
Interests: mechanical engineering; manufacturing processes; soft computing techniques; artificial neural networks; fuzzy logic; genetic algorithms
Interests: decision-making theory; expert systems; intelligent decision support systems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Processes is dedicated to recent advances and innovative applications of modeling techniques in mineral and coal processing. As the global demand for sustainable and efficient resource utilization increases, modeling serves as a crucial tool for understanding, designing, optimizing, and controlling complex processes in the extractive industries.
We invite original research articles, comprehensive reviews, and industrial case studies that address a broad range of topics, including but not limited to, the following:
- Mathematical modeling of mineral and coal processing.
- ANN modeling approaches.
- Modeling of separation processes (e.g., gravity, magnetic, flotation, etc.).
- Optimization of mineral and coal processing using MCDM methods.
- Integration of modeling tools into real-time plant operations.
Prof. Dr. Jovica M. Sokolovic
Prof. Dr. Dejan Tanikić
Prof. Dr. Dragiša Stanujkić
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mineral processing
- coal processing
- modeling
- ANN
- MCDM
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