Advances in Fine Particles Processing

1. Production of Fine Particles by Comminution.- Comminution Energy Reduction by Two-Stage Classification.- Power Requirements for Ultrafine Grinding and Drying of Low-Rank Coals in a Fluid-Energy Mill.- Problems Inherent in Using the Population Balance Model for Wet Grinding in Ball Mills.- Correlation of Adsorption of Surfactants with Fracture and Grinding of Quartz.- Comminution and Ash Reduction of Coal Particles.- 2. Sizing, Mixing and Flow Properties.- Rheology of Concentrated Suspensions.- Rheological and Transport Analysis of Micronized Coal-Water Suspensions Prepared in Conventional and High-Speed Stirred Ball Mills.- Velocity of Variously Shaped Particles Settling in Non-Newtonian Fluids.- Detailed Flow Patterns in the Cylindrical Cyclone Dust Collector.- Universal Blender for Cohesive and Free Flowing Powders.- 3. Surface and Colloidal Phenomena in Fine Particle Processes.- The Role of Particle Forces in Determining the Rheological Properties of Concentrated Dispersions.- Selective Separation of Fine Particles at a Charged Solid/Liquid Interface.- Adsorption of Collectors on Minerals Effects of Lateral Interaction and Molecular Size.- Adsorption and Wetting Characteristics of Pure Non-Metallic Minerals in Contact with Cationic Surfactants.- Surface Characterization of Surfactant-Modified Colloidal Alumina.- Fourier Bessel Characterization of Polished Metal Surfaces.- 4. Surface and Colloidal Chemistry in the Processing of Clays.- Interparticle Forces of Clays.- Application of SIMS to the Study of Polycation Adsorption on Kaolin.- The Behavior of Polyelectrolyte Adsorption on Kaolin.- Ultrasonic Gelling of Channelized 2:1 Clay In Ionic Media.- 5. Processing of Fine Particles by Flocculation and Dispersion.- Effects of Polyacrylic Acid Concentration on Its Conformation and on the Stability of Alumina Suspensions.- Shear Flocculation and Flotation of Galena and Synthetic PbS.- The Hydrophobic Aggregation Flotation of Rutile Particles.- Selective Flocculation of Chrysocolla Fines with Anionic Polyacrylamide/Acrylate Polymer.- Thermodynamics of Adsorption of a Hydrophobic Polymeric Flocculant on Coal, Pyrite and Shale Minerals.- Synthetic Copolymers Tailor-Made for the pH Controlled Selective Flocculation of Extrafine Dispersions of Ilmenite with Respect to Rutile.- Selective Deslimings of Fine Iron Ores Based on Aggregation Between Magnetite and Hematite.- 6. Separation of Fine Particles by Flotation.- High Speed Photographic Investigation of Coal Flotation.- A Study of Surfactant/Oil Emulsions for Fine Coal Flotation.- Sequential Separation of Carbonate and Siliceous Gangue Minerais During Phosphate Ore Processing.- Split Flotation of Calcite from Wollastonite and Microcline The Calcite Rich Wollastonite Ore of Northern Sweden.- Operating Parameters in the Column Flotation of Alabama Oil Shale.- 7. Fine Particle Processing with Multiple Physical, Chemical and Biological Phenomena.- Grinding and Flotation Characterized with the Parameter Action.- Upgrading Fine-Grained Iron Ores.- Processing of Hematitic Iron Ores.- Ore and Coal Processing with the Turbocharger Electrostatic Separator.- Biometallurgy for Manganese and Copper Ores.- Silver Recovery Through Molten Salt Destruction of Sludges and Other Solids.- Pilot Scale Ferrous and Sulfide Metals Treatment in Wastewater Cleanup.- Author Index.