Selective flotation of fossil resins from Northeast China coal
For a feed which came from Northeast China containing 11.4 per cent fossil resin, by conventional single stage flotation, the fossil resin concentrate gained had a low grade. Adjusting the pH of the feed slurry with HCl or CaO before flotation or treating the feed with H{sub 2}O{sub 2} solution before flotation did not improve the selectivity of flotation. In order to improve the selectivity of flotation for fossil resin, the authors treated the feed slurry of flotation with several surfactants. Although most of them did not work very well, one surfactant was able to increase the grade of concentrate to over 80% as the recovery rate was higher than 82%. The result of mechanism research into the performance of the best surfactant indicated that the selective adsorption of the hydrophobic side of the surfactant onto the surface of coal particle made it more hydrophilic, so that the difference between the hydrophobicity of the coal particle's surface and that of the fossil resin's surface was enlarged.
- Research Organization:
- China Univ. of Mining and Technology, Beijing (CN)
- OSTI ID:
- 20082356
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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