Mineral Dressing
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Abhimanyu Kumar Patel
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Course Name : Mineral Dressing
Code(Credit) :CUTM1115(2-0-0)
Course Objectives
- Exposure to various aspects of beneficiation of ores and industrial minerals for value addition.
- To introduce mineral processing characteristics of minerals
- To introduce Concentrations, Physico-chemical principles.
- To introduce Flowsheets for the beneficiation of various minerals.
Learning Outcomes
- Exposed to the practices of beneficiation ores and coal.
- Gain value up-gradation for main product and for the byproduct.
- Various techniques of Mineral processing
Course Syllabus
MODULE I
Introduction
Scope, objectives, and limitations of mineral processing, liberation, and beneficiation characteristics of minerals and coal. Comminution: Theory and practices of crushing and grinding.
MODULE II
Liberation
Liberation- importance, and determination of liberation size, Crushing fundamentals, construction, and operational features of primary and secondary crushers, Jaw, Gyratory, cone, and roll crushers. Grinding- theory and practice, Ball & Rod Mills construction, and operation.
MODULE III
Grinding
Theory of grinding, critical speed, types of grinding mills, such as ball mills, rod mill, autogenous mills, close circuit and open circuit grinding.
MODULE IV
Metallurgical Accounting
Sampling, Definition, objectives, different types of sampling methods. Hand sampling, mechanical and electrical sampling
MODULE V
Size Separation
Industrial screens, mechanical classifiers and hydro cyclones, mineral concentration technologies including magnetic and electrostatic separation, gravity separation, and flotation..
Reference Books
1 Introduction to Mineral Processing – V. Malleswar Rao
2 Mineral Processing – B A Wills
3 Ore Deposits of India – Their distribution and processing. Rao, T C and Gokhale, KVG.
Session Plan
Session 1
LECTURE:
Scope, objectives, and limitations of mineral processing
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Session 2
LECTURE:
liberation, and beneficiation characteristics of minerals and coal
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Session 3
Session 4
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Comminution: Theory and practices of crushing and grinding.
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Session 5
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Liberation- importance, and determination of liberation size,
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Session 6
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Crushing fundamentals, construction, and operational features of primary and secondary crushers
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Session 9
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Grinding- theory and practice, Ball & Rod Mills construction, and operation.
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Session 10
LECTURE:
Grinding- theory and practice, Ball & Rod Mills construction, and operation.
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Session 11
Session 12
LECTURE:
ball mills, rod mill, autogenous mills, close circuit and open circuit grinding
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Session 13
LECTURE:
Sampling, Definition, objectives, different types of sampling methods
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Session 14
LECTURE:
Sampling, Definition, objectives, different types of sampling methods
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Session 16
LECTURE:
Industrial screens, mechanical classifiers and hydro cyclones
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Session 17
LECTURE:
Industrial screens, mechanical classifiers and hydro cyclones
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Session 18
LECTURE:
mineral concentration technologies including magnetic and electrostatic separation
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Session 19
LECTURE:
mineral concentration technologies including magnetic and electrostatic separation
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