Significance and Methods of Mineral Dehydration

Dehydration is the process that remove water from the solid material containing moisture.

In the beneficiation process, the vast majority of beneficiation products contain a lot of water. For example,  the concentrate  Flotation plant get contained moisture approximately 4 to 5 times the solid weight , the concentrate obtained from the re-election plant and the magnetic separation plant concentrators also have a lot of water. Therefore, the dehydration is necessary , otherwise, the concentrate   transportation will be very difficult, and the transportation costs will increase. in the cold regions, the water contained in the mine concentrate will froze.  The concentrate dewatering is also very necessary for the smelting of the concentrate ,at the same time ,the mine dehydration is very important to the smelting, the large amount contained water not only increase the energy consumption of smelting, but also reduces the utilization factor of the metallurgical furnace. In addition, in order to strengthen environmental protection, or in order to reduce fresh water consumption  in areas of water scarcity ,the beneficiation products dehydration is essential.

The   tailings water content are often more than 70% ,  in general,  before the tailings are sent into the tailings pond,they must go through the dehydration process.
It is thus clear that the dehydration operation is an important part of the the beneficiation production .

The commonly used dehydration methods are the following:
◆ mechanical dewatering
It is a method that  use the mechanical force (gravity, pressure, centrifugal force) to separate the water and solids . Such as precipitation concentrated, filter are all fall into this category. The main application of beneficiation production dehydration are these methods.
◆ thermal dehydration
It is a method that use the thermal energy to  vaporize the water and then achieve the purpose of separating water and solids. such as the rotary kiln dryer drying falls into such category.
◆ physical chemical methods dehydration
It is a method that use the   water-absorbent chemicals, such as lime, anhydrous calcium chloride to absorb moisture from the material.
In the beneficiation process,    the dehydration of the coarse material is relatively simple, we can only use the gravity to make the materials moisture dry, so most of the water will be removed. but the dewatering of fine-grained material is more complex, such as the flotation plant concentrates, average particle size are relatively thin, its dehydration is usually divided into two steps: The first step : settlement concentrated, use the common sedimentation tanks or concentrated machines and other equipment, concentrate the very dilute slurry to the pulp whose water content is only 50-80%; the second step:filter,  filter the concentrate product's moisture to16-8 percent. Depending on the actual circumstances, in particular,  the north cold season when the concentrate moisture requirements are strictly ,   sometimes the third step dry dryer is necessary. Dry the materials by dry machine, which  can reduce the materials water down to 6% or less. However, it must be pointed out that the   drying and dehydration cost is high , and the concentrates loss is large. So the commonly used processes in the concentrator are the enrichment ,filter these two-stage dehydration processes.
 

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