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  • Open Access

Enhanced Settlement Thickening of Tailings Slurry by Ultrasonic Treatment: Optimization of Application Timing and Power and Insight into the Underlying Mechanism

  • Liyi Zhu,
  • Zhao Wei,
  • Peng Yang,
  • Xiaofei Qiao,
  • Penglin Lang,
  • Zhengbin Li,
  • Kun Wang,
  • Wensheng Lyu and
  • Jialu Zeng

23 January 2026

Efficient thickening of unclassified tailings slurry (UTS) is critical for enhancing mine backfill efficiency and reducing operational costs. Ultrasonic technology has emerged as a promising approach to facilitating the solid–liquid separation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,016 Views
22 Pages

26 November 2018

Owing to the pavement cracking of heightening and thickening levees (HTL) caused by differential settlement, it is necessary to study the settlement prediction and differential settlement criterion for HTLs. In this study, an HTL was taken as the stu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,747 Views
15 Pages

13 August 2023

There are some problems in the application of slurry preparation technology, such as wide fluctuation range of underflow concentration, long settling time and low efficiency of solid–liquid separation. This is an important basis for researching...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
943 Views
19 Pages

21 April 2025

In response to the special requirements for shale gas reservoir stimulation, a novel environmentally responsive fracturing fluid thickener was designed and developed in this paper. N,N-dimethylhexadecylallylammonium chloride (C16DMAAC), N-vinylpyrrol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,454 Views
16 Pages

29 September 2023

Only grams or kilograms of valuable resources are extracted for each tonne of ore processed, generating immense amounts of tailings. Returning tailings-containment dams to their equivalent pre-disturbance landscape state is many stakeholders’ a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,746 Views
23 Pages

Reliable Tools to Forecast Sludge Settling Behavior: Empirical Modeling

  • Reyhaneh Hasanzadeh,
  • Javad Sayyad Amin,
  • Behrooz Abbasi Souraki,
  • Omid Mohammadzadeh and
  • Sohrab Zendehboudi

15 January 2023

In water- and wastewater-treatment processes, knowledge of sludge settlement behavior is a key requirement for proper design of a continuous clarifier or thickener. One of the most robust and practical tests to acquire information about rate of sedim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
803 Views
15 Pages

23 August 2025

Alkanolamine additives play a critical role in enhancing the early process performance of cement slurries, thereby improving construction efficiency and structural durability. This study systematically evaluates the effects of ethanolamine (EA), diet...