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ABSTRACT
Oxidized coal is difficult-to-float using conventional diesel as the collector due to the abundant oxygen-containing groups on coal surface. In this study, a short-chain cationic amine, n-octylamine, was added into diesel in 1:4 ratio for enhancing oxidized coal flotation. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) was used to identify the interaction mechanism between diesel-n-octylamine mixture (DO) and oxidized coal. The results showed that the flotation yield using 500 g/t DO mixture was much higher than that of using 2000 g/t diesel under a similar ash content of clean coal. The addition of n-octylamine was proven to be an effective way to lower the oily collector consumption in oxidized coal flotation. XPS showed that electrostatic bonding between n-octylamine and negative-charged hydrophilic sites on oxidized coal surface was responsible for the enhancement of flotation recovery using DO as the collector.
Acknowledgments
This research was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities (Grant 2018BSCXB10) and Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province for which the authors express their appreciation.