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  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,035 Views
17 Pages

An Improved Python-Based Image Processing Algorithm for Flotation Foam Analysis

  • Wenkang Zhang,
  • Dan Liu,
  • Chunjing Wang,
  • Ruitao Liu,
  • Daqian Wang,
  • Longzhou Yu and
  • Shuming Wen

4 September 2022

For industrial flotation foam image processing, accurate bubble size measurement and feature extraction are very important to optimize the flotation process and to improve the recovery of mineral resources. This paper presents an improved algorithm t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,469 Views
18 Pages

9 March 2023

Accurate and rapid identification of mineral foam flotation states can increase mineral utilization and reduce the consumption of reagents. The traditional flotation process concentrates on extracting foam features from a single-modality foam image,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
338 Views
23 Pages

AKAZE-GMS-PROSAC: A New Progressive Framework for Matching Dynamic Characteristics of Flotation Foam

  • Zhen Peng,
  • Zhihong Jiang,
  • Pengcheng Zhu,
  • Gaipin Cai and
  • Xiaoyan Luo

25 December 2025

The dynamic characteristics of flotation foam, such as velocity and breakage rate, are critical factors that influence mineral separation efficiency. However, challenges inherent in foam images, including weak textures, severe deformations, and motio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,597 Views
16 Pages

22 March 2023

To address the problems of difficult online monitoring, low recognition efficiency and the subjectivity of work condition identification in mineral flotation processes, a foam flotation performance state recognition method is developed to improve the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,726 Views
13 Pages

Effect of Fluoride Ion on the Separation of Fluorite from Calcite Using Flotation with Acidified Water Glass

  • Daqian Wang,
  • Dan Liu,
  • Yingbo Mao,
  • Ruofan Sun,
  • Ruitao Liu and
  • Shuming Wen

28 October 2021

As a common depressant, acidified water glass (AWG) has strong inhibitory effects on fluorite and calcite. The inhibited fluorite is difficult to be recovered, thus resulting in the waste of resources and low flotation efficiency. In this study, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,651 Views
24 Pages

X-ray Particle Tracking Velocimetry in an Overflowing Foam

  • Tobias Lappan,
  • Dominic Herting,
  • Muhammad Ziauddin,
  • Julian Stenzel,
  • Natalia Shevchenko,
  • Sven Eckert,
  • Kerstin Eckert and
  • Sascha Heitkam

30 January 2023

In mineral processing, froth flotation is based on recovering valuable mineral particles by means of the overflowing froth. Industrial-scale froth flotation cells are typically equipped with optical measurement systems, which monitor the bubble sizes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,403 Views
19 Pages

13 December 2023

This study successfully achieved high-precision detection of the clean coal ash content in the coal froth flotation domain by integrating deep learning with the likelihood function. Methodologically, a novel data processing and prediction framework w...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,851 Views
17 Pages

19 April 2024

Addressing issues such as a low operational condition recognition efficiency, strong subjectivity, and significant fluctuations in Outotec X fluorescence analysis data in copper flotation production, a copper concentrate grade classification model is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
497 Views
21 Pages

12 December 2025

Precise segmentation of flotation froths is a critical bottleneck to achieving intelligent perception and optimal control of process operations. Traditional convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are inherently limited by local receptive fields, making...