Effect of surface roughness on particle-bubble interaction: A critical review

Y Sun, X Bu, U Ulusoy, O Guven, BV Hassas… - Minerals …, 2023 - Elsevier
Particle roughness affects flotation recovery in terms of wettability, kinetics, bubble-particle
interactions, and even inter-particle aggregation. The influence of the surface roughness of …

Study on the effect of flocculation morphology on the floatability of talc flocs and the adhesion mechanism with air bubbles

W Yin, Y Xie, J Yao, N Song, K Chen, X Yin - Minerals Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
This study investigates the impact of floc morphology on flotation by preparing two types of
flocs with similar apparent particle sizes but different aggregation degrees through varying …

Snap-in interactions between water droplets and hematite/quartz surfaces with various roughness after conditioning with soluble starch and DDA using a dynamic …

Z Zhu, Z Li, W Yin, B Yang, J Qu, N Zhang, S Chen… - Minerals …, 2022 - Elsevier
Surface roughness plays a vital role in flotation, because it has a pronounced impact on
colloidal interactions, ie, solid-liquid adhesion. In the previous studies, the natural mineral …

Sodium sulfosalicylate activation mechanism on sulfidation flotation of smithsonite using dodecylamine as a collector

J Yang, L Chen, D Wu, J Zeng - Minerals Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, the sulfidation-dodecylamine flotation effects of smithsonite using sodium
sulfosalicylate activation were investigated by micro-flotation, atomic force microscopy …

Effects of grinding time on morphology and collectorless flotation of coal particles

O Guven, B Kaymakoğlu, A Ehsani, A Hassanzadeh… - Powder Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
The impact of particle shape and surface properties has been mainly overlooked in the
literature for different mineral systems. In this study, to investigate the effects of …

Effect of particle shape on bubble-particle attachment behavior: Roles of surfaces, edges, and vertexes

G Ma, X Bu, U Ulusoy, G Xie - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
It has been understood through many studies that particle shape is important in terms of
particle adhesion to air bubbles in flotation. However, there are many questions yet to be …

Prediction of Clean Coal Ash Content in Coal Flotation through a Convergent Model Unifying Deep Learning and Likelihood Function, Incorporating Froth Velocity and …

F Lu, H Liu, W Lv - Processes, 2023 - mdpi.com
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 …

Does hemimicelle concentration (HMC) coincide with critical aggregation concentration (CAC) in flotation?

MS Çelik, O Guven, İE Karaağaçlıoğlu, O Ozdemir - Minerals Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Flotation recoveries of oxide, silicate, and salt-type minerals when plotted against collector
concentration exhibit a break point followed by a sharp increase. This threshold point called …

Novel strategy to improve the recovery of picromerite: Particle morphology regulation during crystallization process

G Dong, H Zhu, H Yi, P Chen, F Jia… - Journal of Molecular …, 2024 - Elsevier
Particle shape plays an important role in flotation. The strategy of regulating particle
morphology during crystallization process to make it more suitable for flotation was …

Probe into hydrophobic mechanism of solid-liquid interface during separation recovery of Zn from Fe and Cd by sulfide precipitation flotation with a novel “plane” …

Y Huang, F Li, S He, C Wang, M Wang, L Chen… - Journal of Water …, 2022 - Elsevier
Sulfide precipitation flotation process is one of the effective methods to recover heavy metal
ions from wastewater, nevertheless, the selectivity and collection ability for flotation process …