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
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1245-1252
Number of pages8
JournalMinerals Engineering
Volume12
Issue number10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 1999

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Geochemistry and Petrology
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology

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