Flotation of sylvite from potash ore by using the Gemini surfactant as a novel flotation collector
| Autor: | Guichun He, Chen Cheng, Xinyang Yu, Zhizhong Guo, Zhiqiang Huang, Liqing Li, Haijun Han, Lanqing Deng, Hong Zhong, Weng Fu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Chemistry Mechanical Engineering Potash 02 engineering and technology General Chemistry 010501 environmental sciences engineering.material Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology 01 natural sciences Octadecylamine hydrochloride Desalination 020501 mining & metallurgy 0205 materials engineering Pulmonary surfactant Chemical engineering Control and Systems Engineering engineering Halite Froth flotation Selectivity 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Minerals Engineering. 132:22-26 |
| ISSN: | 0892-6875 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.mineng.2018.11.055 |
| Popis: | Potash fertilizer ensures the necessary agricultural yields to feed an increasing world population. Over 80% of the world’s potash fertilizer is produced by the selective froth flotation of KCl (sylvite) from NaCl (halite). However, all the surfactants used in the potash froth flotation process are traditional monomeric surfactants contain a single similar hydrophobic group in the molecule, which leads to a low production efficiency. In this work, a novel Gemini surfactant, N,N'-bis (octadecyldimethyl)-1,4-butane diammonium dibromide (BOBD) was prepared, and originally recommended as a collector for froth flotation separation of sylvite from halite for potash ore. The performance of BOBD was compared with the results acquired using its traditional monomeric surfactant octadecylamine hydrochloride (OAH). The bench-scale flotation results showed that BOBD had excellent collecting power for sylvite and significant selectivity against halite at natural pH. Moreover, BOBD presented stronger desalination efficiency than OAH. The results gained with the Gemini collector were better in terms of KCl recovery and NaCl content than those gained with four times higher dosages of the conventional monomeric surfactant. |
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