New technology and equipment for coal slime recovery in China

Conference · Thu Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1998

OSTI ID:349122

Liu, J ^[1]

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1. China Mining and Technology Univ., Beijing (China)

Yearly output of the medium and small coal mines in China has reached 7.7 hundred million tons. Most coal slime from these coal preparation plants are abandoned, and thence the environment is seriously polluted. Recently, a new technology and equipment for coal slime recovery has been developed. The key equipment of the technology is the cyclone-column flotator. To recover the coal slime, a system consisting of cyclone-column flotator and plate frame filter is used. The cyclone-column flotator is a short body flotator specially designed for flotation of coal with difficult floatability. It consists of a flotation segment on the top and a cyclone segment at the bottom, the later being a supplement of flotation processing. As a result, the separation and recovery are enhanced. Compared with traditional flotation machine--vacuum filter system, this technology has the following advantages: (1) suitable for most types of coal; (2) higher selectivity (the ash content in clean coal dropped by 1--2%); and (3) the system is simple and reliable with lower operation cost. The investment dropped by 40--50%, and power consumption, by 30--40% under the same processing capacity. This technology system, featuring convenience, easy operability, high efficiency and high quality is specially suitable for medium and small coal preparation plants. There are over ten coal preparation plants employing this technology system with success.

• OSTI ID: 349122
• Report Number(s): CONF-980985--; ISBN 1-890977-15-2
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
CHINA
COAL FINES
COAL PREPARATION
COAL PREPARATION PLANTS
CYCLONE SEPARATORS
FLOTATION
MATERIALS RECOVERY
PERFORMANCE
TAILINGS