A laboratory scale jet flotation column system was designed and air inflation for flotation column was provided by jet aerator with a chamber. In order to understand interior flow field distribution of jet aerator and flotation column, two-phase turbulent flow model was established by use of commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software FLUENT 6.3.26. Modeling of the flow field was firstly established with GAMBIT 2.3.16; standard k-ε turbulence model and multiphase flow model MIXTURE were adopted for gas-liquid two-phase numerical simulation about jet aerator and flotation column. The simulation results show that gas-liquid two-phase mixing have been established by the cavity entrainment vortex flow in jet aerator with a chamber, and the distortion was really occurred although the reversed cone feed inlet have been designed, at the same time non-uniform distribution of air-bubble was also simulated. Simulation results can help to optimize the structure of the jet flotation column.
Some novel composites were prepared with polyamide 6(PA6) filled with wollastonite particles and wollastonite inorganic modified by aluminium silicate composite materials (WIMS) as fibrous fillers. Subsequently, these composites were investigated for tensile, charpy notched impact, bending strength, bending modulus and heat distortion temperature, and the mechanism of PA6 reinforced by WIMS was discussed through SEM photos of wollastonite and WIMS and the current two most popular equations: Pukanszky equation and Nielsen equation.The results show that the PA6 products filled with WIMS have superior mechanical properties(tensile strength 71.65Mpa, bending strength 106.61Mpa, bending modulus 3258.22Mpa) than that of uncoated wollastonite and pure PA6, and the heat distortion temperature increases by 88.6°C than pure PA6 and 17.2°C than wollastonite. Inorganic modification of wollastonite can improve the joint interface between wollastonite and PA6, thus improving their mechanical properties.
The changes of magnetic property of several iron bearing sulfide minerals after strong beam current electron irradiation are examined. Data shows that the magnetic susceptibility of arsenopyrite and chalcopyrite increases markedly compared to that of pyrite and marmatite. The magnetic susceptibility of arsenopyrite exceeds the lowest ferromagnetic limit 3000 cm3/g, while the susceptibility changes of other minerals are relatively slow. The irradiation dose is the dominate parameter determining the magnetic susceptibility change. Electron beam irradiation might be a potential method to enlarge the magnetic property distinction between the minerals for their magnetic separation.
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