High Rate Thickeners
There are two basic types of high rate thickener units: Lamina or tube settlers and solids recirculation units Lamina Thickeners They contain space-cutting baffles that intercept settling paths at many levels. Solids settle out onto the baffles and are removed from suspension after settling only a short distance. Where and to the extent that removals […]
Thickener Underflow Pump
The diaphragm Thickener Underflow Pump is essentially one for low lifts and is particularly adapted to handle metallurgical pulps economically and with minimum attention. The Dorrco diaphragm pump was developed primarily as a means of controlling the density of the underflow from the Dorr thickener in the first continuous treatment of cyanide pulps. It has […]
Counter Current Decantation Design Formula
The principle of Counter Current Decantation is simply that, when water or solution is to act upon solids, both are made to pass, in contact, in opposite directions, so that at each end the strongest or most potent portion of either is acting upon the weakest or most exhausted portion of the other. The recovery […]
Rotary Disk Filter Flappers
The concentrate is filtered on two 8 by 10 ft. Oliver filters. One of these filters is used for each roaster. The filter cake discharges onto a conveyor belt which feeds the charge directly to the roaster. The concentrate filter cake is at best a sticky, puttylike mass. If the moisture exceeds 20 per cent […]
How a Thickener Works
Thickening or dewatering may be defined as the removal of a portion of the liquid from a pulp or slime made up of a mixture of finely divided solids and liquids. The early methods of thickening employed plain, flat-bottomed tanks into which the pulp was fed until the tank was full. The solids were then allowed […]
Gold Leaching Agitation Tanks
The mixing of solids suspended in a fluid medium is still largely an art. The development of fundamental laws governing the operation is complicated by the large number of variables involved, some of which can hardly be evaluated in mathematical terms. Practical studies of the circulation patterns of the more common types of agitators are […]
Leaching Agglomerated Slimes
More recent work along these lines is reported in T.P. 790, A.I.M.E.’ by 0. C. Shephard and C. F. Skinner presented at the New York meeting in 1937, under the title of “Stabilizing Agglomerated Slimes for Gold Cyanide Leaching.” The paper describes the development of a method of stabilizing agglomerated slimes by the formation of […]
Leaching of Clay Ore
To solve the problem of treating and leaching a clay ore in which the gold was finely disseminated, the author was able to suggest a unique method which he had seen described twenty-five years previously in a paper, “Occurrence and Treatment of Gold Ore at Bidi, Sarawak, Borneo,” by T. C. Scrutton, which appeared in […]
Dewatering Screw Classifiers
Dewatering Screw Classifiers once had a wide vogue and still are used in some pulp circuits. They were more or less troublesome because solids tended to accumulate on the sloping sides, sloughed off periodically, and plugged the discharge in the apex; the sand discharged was too dilute and contained too much slime; and sand was […]
Cement Clinker Grinding Aids
The use of a good Cement clinker grinding aid can be vital in today’s increasing material demands. Along with the obligation to process increasingly larger quantities of ores containing finely disseminated minerals, our limited energy resources and the rising costs of energy present a challenge to the process engineer. One research route that has been […]