Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

MINERAL PROCESSING AND FLOWSHEET DESIGN

General Data

Type of credits: ECTS
Number of credits: 7.00
Status: Mandatory
Type: Course
Academic Year: 1º
Term: 1º
Languages: English, Portuguese
Available for Mobility Students: No
Restricted to alliance: No
Code: Sin codigo

Coordination

Description

Theory/Practice
3

Instructors

José Fernandes


 

Contents

I
Mineral exploration and sampling. Technological tests. Processing minerals structure. Techniques of mineral processing (CP1).
Processing minerals characteristics and Efficiency of metallic ore (high and low quotation) and non-metallics (CP2).
Levels of processing ore/mineral system. Primary and secondary mineral processing operations. Processing plants-local factors (CP3).
Classification. -Fragmentation-feed size. Concentration/purification operations (gravity, flotation, magnetic and lixiviation) (CP4).

II
a)Sizing and selection of crushers, hydrocyclones, flotation cells, magnetic separators, hidroclassifiers, thickners and filter press (CP5).
b)Design of Processing flowsheets for cassiterite, sedimentary ores of cassiterite, pegmatite and aplite-pegmatite ores of cassiterite, mineralized quartz veins of cassiterite, wolframite and scheelite, for Uranian and Kaolin and sand ores (CP6).

Learning Outcomes

The student should be able to:
-distinguish the different technologies of Mineral Processing and design Ore Processing/Plant facilities (OB1).
- select the methods of physical and chemical analysis to be applied to the different raw materials, depending on the respective industrial applications (OB2).
- select and apply appropriate processing/ beneficiation techniques to the different mineral raw materials (OB3).
- integrate knowledge to develop solutions and value judgments in the implementation of mineral processing plant projects (OB4).