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Comminution processes such as crushing and grinding constitute a significant proportion of capital and operating costs in mineral processing plants and are critical to the economic performance of most mining operations.
This book will help practising engineers get the best out of their comminution circuits through a well-proven methodical approach to process optimisation.
Based on experience from over 30 years of research and consulting, this book provides the reader with the background and techniques necessary to maximise process productivity.
Mineral processing students will also find the text useful in its treatment of comminution processses and as a review of the current state of the art in the application of computer simulation to process optimisation.
Topics include:
- The features and operation of comminution and classification processes.
- Mathematical process models of crushing, grinding and mineral liberation.
- Surveying and analysing comminution circuits.
- Prediction of power draw.
- Process optimisation by computer simulation.
- Ore breakage testing.
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