Classifying – separating – and assorting solids – Fluid suspension – Liquid
Patent
1995-06-07
1998-08-18
Lithgow, Thomas M.
Classifying, separating, and assorting solids
Fluid suspension
Liquid
209734, 209 3, 209 5, 209 121, 209 17, 209 38, 209 39, B04C 502, B04C 504, B04C 900, B03B 534
Patent
active
057947910
ABSTRACT:
Fine particle coal is beneficiated in specially designed dense medium cyclones to improve particle acceleration and enhance separation efficiency. Raw coal feed is first sized to remove fine coal particles. The coarse fraction is then separated into clean coal, middlings, and refuse. Middlings are comminuted for beneficiation with the fine fraction. The fine fraction is deslimed in a countercurrent cyclone circuit and then separated as multiple fractions of different size specifications in dense medium cyclones. The dense medium contains ultra-fine magnetite particles of a narrow size distribution which aid separation and improves magnetite recovery. Magnetite is recovered from each separated fraction independently, with non-magnetic effluent water from one fraction diluting feed to a smaller-size fraction, and improving both overall coal and magnetite recovery. Magnetite recovery is in specially designed recovery units, based on particle size, with final separation in a rougher-cleaner-scavenger circuit of magnetic drum separators incorporating a high strength rare earth magnet. The invention also contemplates a cyclone apparatus having certain preferred relationships between (a) the cyclone throughput and inlet passageway cross-sectional area; and (b) desired cyclone performance in terms of beneficiating a particle of given size at a pre-selected separation gravity to achieve a desired separation efficiency.
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Genesis Research Corporation
Lithgow Thomas M.
Meyers Diane R.
Silverman Arnold B.
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