546-0435/01 – Flotation of Mineral Raw Materials and Wastes (FNSO)
| Gurantor department | Department of Environmental Engineering | Credits | 6 |
| Subject guarantor | prof. Ing. Vladimír Čablík, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | prof. Ing. Silvie Heviánková, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 1 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2006/2007 | Year of cancellation | 2011/2012 |
| Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
In this subject the students follow-up study explained the principle of flotation method of mineral processing and waste. Students in the laboratory exercises on the basis of experiments determined the ability of the flotation material and determine the optimum flotation conditions.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Experimental work in labs
Summary
In this subject the students explained the principle of flotation, its importance in the treatment of minerals and waste, are familiar with chemical and physical Flotated the ongoing storyline, flotation reagents and their mechanisms of action, flotation devices and flotation methods of different types and raw materials. The theoretical basis for practical follow-up exercises in the lab, where students will apply the method of flotation on the specific samples of raw materials.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Additional study materials
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Students will elaborate papers on basis of excercises during a semester. The subject is finished by writting exam.
E-learning
Other requirements
The study of foreign literature.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
Lectures:
1. Principle of flotation, its historical trend and utility, terminology.
2. Phase in flotation process (solid, liquid and gaseous), flotability as a property of
solid phase, methodology of its determination.
3. Surface effects on phase contacts, the study of phase boundary (liquid-gas,
solid-gas, solid-liquid). Thermodynamic characteristic of flotation process.
Electrochemical characteristic of solid-liquid interphase.
4. Physical principles of flotation process. Size of bubbles and size of
grains in flotation process.
5. Kinetics of flotation.
6. Chemical principles of flotation process. Flotation agents and its
properties.
7. Flotation collectors and its chemical composition.
8. Flotation frothing agents and its chemicall properties.
9. Directive flotation agents and their properties.
10. Flotation devices.
11. Technology of flotation process and its evaluation.
12. Classification of various technological flotation operation. Technology of
coal flotation, ore and non ore materials flotation.
14. Developments in flotation, optimalization, automatization and possibility of
increase flotating technologies.
Excercises:
5 papers (experiments in laboratory scale). Contens of excercises is testing
of flotability and optimalization flotating process of black coal sluries, Cu-S or Pb-
Zn ores, graphite or another materials.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction