Industrial monitoring of hydrocyclone operation using electrical resistance tomography

Richard A Williams; Xiaodong Jia; Robert M. West; Mi Wang; J. C. Cullivan; J. Bond; I. Faulks; T. Dyakowski; S. J. Wang; N. Climpson; J. A. Kostuch; D. Payton

doi:10.1016/S0892-6875(99)00109-0

Industrial monitoring of hydrocyclone operation using electrical resistance tomography

Richard A Williams^*, Xiaodong Jia, Robert M. West, Mi Wang, J. C. Cullivan, J. Bond, I. Faulks, T. Dyakowski, S. J. Wang, N. Climpson, J. A. Kostuch, D. Payton

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The development and application of electrical resistance tomography for on-line auditing of an industrial hydrocyclone separation is reported. The work demonstrates the retrofitting of electrodes into a commercially available separator and their use in laboratory, pilot plant and plant scale investigations of clay refining. A number of new and significant applications are described including: the development of methodologies to allow observation of the occurrence of faults in underflow discharge (spraying, roping, blockage); accurate measurement of the air core size for different operational conditions; direct calculation of solid concentration profiles based on parametric reconstruction of conductivity data in three dimensions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1245-1252
Number of pages	8
Journal	Minerals Engineering
Volume	12
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0892-6875(99)00109-0
Publication status	Published - Oct 1999

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Geochemistry and Petrology
Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology

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