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Flotation Kinetics

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Innovations in Flotation Technology

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Flotation kinetics is briefly introduced and its history is reviewed. Main theoretical approaches are discussed, and the kinetic models are presented in detail. The application of flotation kinetics to modeling and simulation of the circuits is shortly surveyed, then some industrial results are used to show how the models fit to experimental results.

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Ek, C. (1992). Flotation Kinetics. In: Mavros, P., Matis, K.A. (eds) Innovations in Flotation Technology. NATO ASI Series, vol 208. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2658-8_8

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