A review of flocculants as an efficient method for increasing the efficiency of municipal sludge dewatering: Mechanisms, performances, influencing factors and …

M Hyrycz, M Ochowiak, A Krupińska… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Mechanical sludge dewatering is one of the stages of the municipal wastewater treatment
process, which allows the amount of generated sludge and the cost of its transport and …

A review on floc-flotation of fine particles: technological aspects, mechanisms, and future perspectives

K Asgari, H Khoshdast, F Nakhaei… - Mineral Processing …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Flotation process is the most common beneficiation method of almost all types of minerals.
The desirable result of the process is dependent on various factors. One of the most effective …

Characterization of ballasted flocs in water treatment using microscopy

M Lapointe, B Barbeau - Water research, 2016 - Elsevier
Ballasted flocculation is widely used in the water industry for drinking water, municipal
wastewater, storm water and industrial water treatment. This gravity-based physicochemical …

Variations in the molecular weight response of anionic polyacrylamides under different flocculation conditions

A Costine, J Cox, S Travaglini, A Lubansky… - Chemical Engineering …, 2018 - Elsevier
The influence of applied mixing (intensity and duration), solids concentration, and liquor
chemistry on the molecular weight (MW) response of seven anionic (30%) polyacrylamides …

含油废水处理方法研究进展

张翼, 于婷, 毕永慧, 张玉洁 - 化工进展, 2008 - hgjz.cip.com.cn
概述了含油废水的特征, 对比分析了气浮法, 絮凝法, 膜分离法, 生物法等处理含油废水的方法及
其相应的优势和不足. 重点评述了几种处理含油废水的新方法(如电化学法等) …

Improved water recovery: A review of clay-rich tailings and saline water interactions

D Liu, M Edraki, P Fawell, L Berry - Powder Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
The presence of clays can make dewatering of tailings from mineral processing challenging.
This review focuses on the interaction of clays in tailings under different conditions, including …

Using focused beam reflectance measurement (FBRM) to monitor aggregate structures formed in flocculated clay suspensions

Y Kyoda, AD Costine, PD Fawell, J Bellwood… - Minerals …, 2019 - Elsevier
The shear sensitivity of fragile, low-density aggregates formed in particle suspensions by
polymer-bridging flocculation makes characterisation methods needing sampling or dilution …

[HTML][HTML] Optimising the activity of acrylamide-based polymer solutions used to flocculate mineral processing tailings suspensions–a review

C Castillo, P Fawell, A Costine - Chemical Engineering Research and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The polymer flocculants applied to mineral tailings suspensions to aggregate fine particles
and thereby enhance solid-liquid separation are also used in a range of other industrial …

The impacts of high salinity and polymer properties on dewatering and structural characteristics of flocculated high-solids tailings

MB Ghandashtani, A Costine, M Edraki… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
In seeking to better understand the inline flocculation technique for enhanced water
recovery from concentrated fine-particle suspensions, polymers of different molecular weight …

Seawater flocculation of clay-based mining tailings: Impact of calcium and magnesium precipitation

JJ Ramos, WH Leiva, CN Castillo, CF Ihle… - Minerals …, 2020 - Elsevier
In areas where access to water of good quality is limited, the use of seawater in mineral
processing can be an option. However, the dewatering of waste tailings is adversely …