Development and Application Characteristics of High Gradient Magnetic Separator

As one of the most effective techniques for fine particle processing, high gradient magnetic separation is mainly used in the separation and enrichment of fine and weak magnetic particles and other important industrial fields. High gradient magnetic separator is a new type of high intensity magnetic separator, which has strong ability to capture fine and weak magnetic particles, developed on the basis of ordinary high intensity magnetic separator. Based on the early periodic- high -gradient magnetic separators, the optimization development direction of high gradient magnetic separators and their application characteristics of various high gradient magnetic separators in these decades were summarized, and the future development directions of high gradient magnetic separator were presented.

Challenges and opportunities for development of the Vietnam mineral processing in the XXI century

Mineral mining and processing Industry of Vietnam is facing a number of huge challenges at present, but there are also great opportunities for its growth in the future. Mineral processing plants need to make breakthrough improvements in the process designing, technology and equipment utilisation in order to meet requirements of the new era. These challenges force our miners and mineral processing operators to constantly make efforts in researches and to bring best solutions to improve plant operations to ensure the requirements of safety, market demands, product quality, sustainable development and environmental friendliness. Specifically, the issues that need to be addressed urgently are capacity and quality of the workforce, tailings treatment, fine particle processing, ores of low washability, recovery rate increase and maximisation of recoverable valuable minerals, environmental issues and workplace safety monitoring and control, maximasation of production efficiency and reduction of operating costs. This report presents the current key challenges of the mining and mineral processing industry in order to help professionals and policy makers in the field of mineral mining and processing to bring rational directions for action initiate appropriate studies and improve management methods; to help mineral processing plants in improving the production efficiency and recovery of valuable minerals; to reduce operating costs and to become environmentally friendly and to develop sustainably.

Controlling the adsorption of mineral porous particles by chelation

Problem formulating. To increase the sorption capacity of calcium carbonate microparticles used as core for the development of targeted drug delivery, EDTA chelation of calcium ions was used to form a developed active surface of the particles. Goal. Is in modification of the surface of micron and submicron calcium carbonate vaterite particles using EDTA chelation of calcium ions and studying the effect of particle processing on their sorption capacity. Result. It was shown using scanning electron microscopy that EDTA treatment of the CaCO3 surface leads to an increase on the surface roughness of the particles, as well as an increase on their sorption capacity according to spectrophotometric data. Practical meaning. Use of adsorption to encapsulate the active substance inside the carriers. It is shown that an increase in the sorption capacity of particles leads to an increase in the amount of a substance inside its volume.

Biocomposites Produced from Hardwood Particles by Equal Channel Angular Pressing: Effects of Pre-Treatment

The benefit of using a combination of alkali pre-treatment and ball milling in processing hardwood particles into biocomposites via equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) was demonstrated. The penetration of bonding additives (polyethyleneimine and tannic acid) into hardwood structures was enhanced by the pre-treatment, resulting in plasticization and cross-linking derived from the additives during the particle processing. A significant improvement in the biocomposites’ mechanical properties was obtained, reaching flexural strength of 28–29 MPa and flexural modulus of 3650 MPa, comparable to those displayed by commercial wood fiberboard using thermosetting resins as the binding agent. This adds to the promise of developing biocomposites from industrial or agricultural waste through the simple and efficient ECAP technology in conjunction with common pre-treatment methodologies for wood particles.

Studi Parametrik Mortar Geopolimer Hybrid Abu Sawit (Palm Oil Fuel Ash/POFA)

In this study, the Palm Oil Fuel Ash (POFA) was used as a raw material for making geopolymer mortars that uses a combination of sodium hydroxide (NaOH) and sodium silicate (Na2SiO3). The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of various parameters on the compressive strength of mortars. The parameters involved were namely modulus of activator ratio (Ms 1-3), the molarity of NaOH (10-16M), curing temperature (28-110ºC), type of POFA particle processing (oven-dried, passed the #200 sieve, burned in a brick kiln, burned at 800ºC), rest periods of 3 and 5 days. Based on the parametric study, it was found the optimum mixture with the highest compressive strength consisted of NaOH 14M, Ms ratio of 2.5, curing temperature of 100OC, a rest period of 5 days, particles sieved using #200 sieve and had 15% PCC content.