MODELING OF ENHANCED GRAVITY CONCENTRATORS–PRESENT STATUS

ABSTRACT

The majority of the newly developed enhanced gravity concentrators (EGCs) have tremendous potentials for various applications. Therefore, the performance evaluation of these concentrators treating various minerals, coals, heavy metal recovery from tailing dams, etc., have become an active research topic. Several attempts have also been made to develop appropriate mathematical models of individual concentrators. Despite all these efforts, these concentrators have yet to find the widespread applications they deserve. The present status of modeling these EGCs with a brief description of the operating principles and the present applications are, therefore, reviewed in this article. Research needs in this direction are also highlighted.

Keywords:

• centrifugal concentrators
• enhanced gravity concentrators
• falcon concentrators
• kelsey jig
• knelson concentrator
• mozley multi gravity separator

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The financial support received under the CSIR network projects, CMM—0023 and COR—0009, for carrying out this work is gratefully acknowledged.