Analysis of Flotation Froth Appearance by Design of Experiments
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چکیده
Flotation is one of the most important mineral concentration techniques. It is known that the appearance of the froth in the flotation cells tells much about the state of the flotation process. A machine vision measurement device was used to compute dynamical, morphological and colour variables of the froth on the top of a flotation cell during a set of experiments. In order to examine the dependencies between the state of the process and the separated image variables, a set of experiments was carried out. The behaviour of the froth state variables imply that these image variables are useful in the control and monitoring of the complex process. Copyright © 2000 IFAC.
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