Wills' mineral processing technology : an introduction to the practical aspects of ore treatment and mineral recovery /
Barry A. Wills, James A. Finch
- Eighth edition
- Oxford : Butterworth-Heinemann is an imprint of Elsevier, [2015]
- xiv; 498 p. il
""1.10 Economic Considerations""""1.10.1 Contained Value""; ""1.10.2 Processing Costs""; ""1.10.3 Milling Costs""; ""1.10.4 Tailings Reprocessing and Recycling""; ""1.10.5 Net Smelter Return and Economic Efficiency""; ""1.10.6 Case Study: Economics of Tin Processing""; ""1.10.7 Case Study: Economics of Copper Processing""; ""1.10.8 Economic Efficiency""; ""1.11 Sustainability""; ""References""; ""2 Ore Handling""; ""2.1 Introduction""; ""2.2 The Removal of Harmful Materials""; ""2.3 Ore Transportation""; ""2.4 Ore Storage""; ""2.5 Feeding""; ""2.6 Self-Heating of Sulfide Minerals"" ""3.3.2 On-stream Mineral Phase Analysis""""3.3.3 On-stream Ash Analysis""; ""3.3.4 On-line Particle Size Analysis""; ""3.3.5 Weighing the Ore""; ""3.3.6 Mass Flowrate""; ""Magnetic Flowmeter""; ""Ultrasonic Flowmeters""; ""Array-based Flowmeters""; ""Slurry Density""; ""3.4 Slurry Streams: Some Typical Calculations""; ""Volumetric Flowrate""; ""Slurry Density and % Solids""; ""3.5 Automatic Control in Mineral Processing""; ""3.5.1 Hierarchical Multilayer Control System""; ""3.5.2 Instrumentation Layer""; ""3.5.3 Regulatory Control Layer""; ""3.5.4 Advanced Process Control Layer"" ""Expert Systems""""3.5.5 Optimization Layer""; ""3.5.6 The Control Room""; ""3.6 Mass Balancing Methods""; ""3.6.1 The n-product Formula""; ""Sensitivity Analysis""; ""Error Propagation""; ""Excess of Data""; ""More than One Process Unit""; ""No Correction of Measurement Errors""; ""3.6.2 Node Imbalance Minimization""; ""Limitations""; ""3.6.3 Two-step Least Squares Minimization""; ""Limitations""; ""3.6.4 Generalized Least Squares Minimization""; ""3.6.5 Mass Balance Models""; ""3.6.6 Error Models""; ""3.6.7 Sensitivity Analysis""; ""3.6.8 Estimability and Redundancy Analysis""