The Reflux Classifier is an innovative device offering advantages in both particle size classification and gravity separation. The system is a combination of a conventional fluidised bed and sets ...
High-capacity, compact design. Easy to operate with only one control. Capacities up to 430 tph in coal and 500 tph in iron ore. Easy transport and installation. The patented REFLUX® Classifier offers efficient, high-capacity gravity-based fine-particle separation.
The Inverted Reflux Classifier, which consists of a system of inclined channels below a fluidisation zone, was selected for use as it has been previously used for the separation of positively ...
A 2 m diameter REFLUX™ Classifier was tested on coal feeds up to 6 mm top size. Solids feed rate was varied from 50 to 160 t/h at suspension concentrations up to 37 wt.% solids. Performance was consistent, with product ashes below 10 wt.% for +1 mm particles and reject ashes usually exceeding 70 wt.%. The density cut point could be freely ...
A cascading sequence of two full-scale REFLUX™ Classifiers was tested using 1.0 mm top size coal. The gravity separation in the first stage gave a clean coal …
A REFLUX™ Classifier (RC™), consisting of a fluidized bed with a system of inclined channels above, was used to recover zircon from an ultrafine, low grade mineral sands feed, deslimed to varying degrees below 38 μm. This paper builds upon previous studies concerned with mineral sands, revealing here the benefits of using an inclined ...
The Reflux Classifier was applied to the separation of coal and mineral matter over different size bands, −8 + 0.5 mm, −2 + 0.25 mm, and −2 + 0.075 mm.
The Reflux Classifier (RC), an inclined fluidized bed comprised of a series of parallel inclined channels placed over a standard liquid-solid fluidized bed, has found widespread use in the ...
The REFLUX™ Classifier is targeted at the treatment of -2.00 mm coal and is effective down to 0.125 mm. However, as noted by Galvin et al. (2010), the REFLUX™ Classifier, in common with other gravity …
The Reflux Classifier. The Reflux Classifier has been noted to be a game-changer in the mining and minerals processing industry. This is because of the many benefits that this new ground-breaking technology portends for the overall mining space. At its core, the Reflux Classifier is a gravity separator that was specifically developed to bring ...
Diagram of the TARC (trapezoidal inclined channel agitated reflux classifier). 3.2. Materials . Experimental samples were obtained from the tailings of a titanium concentration plant in Panzhihua, Sichuan. The fine particles were directly tested after concentration. The particle size range was 0–50 µm, and the size distribution is …
The Reflux Classifier (RC), composed of a vertical fluidized section attached to a set of parallel inclined plates, is a new device for the concentration by density variation and was invented by Galvin et al. [6]. Many research results on RC verified its good performance in both coal processing [7, 8] and solid-liquid operations [9].
The Reflux Classifier (RC), an inclined fluidized bed comprised of a series of parallel inclined channels placed over a standard liquid-solid fluidized bed, has found widespread use in the ...
The Reflux Classifier is a new generation fluidized bed separator that provides efficient, high capacity fine particle separations on the basis of size or density. Two full-scale units have been ...
Our initial attempts to use the Reflux Classifier to recover and concentrate mineral sands, however, were encouraging, with a heavy mineral recovery of 81% obtained using a solids throughput of 8.4 t/m 2 h. In this work the aspect ratio of the inclined channels was approximately 40, higher than used previously for separating coal and mineral ...
The Reflux Classifier was applied to the separation of coal and mineral matter over different size bands, −8 + 0.5 mm, −2 + 0.25 mm, and −2 + 0.075 mm. The technology consists of a fluidized ...
Reflux™ classifier (RC) is one of the most recent developments in the mineral processing industries (Nguyentranlam and Galvin, 2001). Besides the commercialization in the coal preparation plants, the use of RC has been extended to a wide range of applications such as crystallization, sink & float apparatus, maceral …
Agitated reflux classifier in the Cartesian coordinate system (Chu et al., 2020). 2.3. Method. Fig. 4 shows the flowsheet of the preconcentration test. Slurries with different solid contents by mass were used in this study. Two peristaltic pumps were utilized to control slurry flow rate at the inlet and outlet of the equipment. The flow field ...
The Reflux Classifier (RC) is a relatively new technology that is mainly used in the coal and minerals industries. The operating principle of this system is based on three mechanisms: hindered settling, autogenous dense medium and lamella settling. This paper summarizes the experimental work undertaken to assess the RC for the beneficiation of ...
The Reflux Classifier (RC) is a fluidized bed separator capable of operating at high hydraulic loadings due to the presence of parallel inclined plates within the system. When the fluidized suspension passes up through the inclined channels formed by the plates, faster settling particles segregate onto the inclined surfaces, and slide back down …
The Reflux Classifier being operated in Case Study 1 had a density cut point that decreased steadily from 1712 down to 1338 kg/m 3 with an increase in particle size from 0.125 up to greater than 1 ...
Large, high-density solids quickly sink and settle in the mixing chamber that is in the middle section of the classifier, forming a fluidised bed of dense material. The fluidised bed is created by ...
REFLUX Classifier: Modular concept a proven success. Gaining market penetration for new technologies and solutions can be a challenge in a largely conservative mining industry. Nonetheless, this can always be overcome if that solution delivers on the benefits it promises. Most recently, this has been demonstrated with FL 's …
the REFLUX™ Classifier technology, the next step was to conduct performance testing of commercial-sized units. In 2005 the performance of the first-generation full-scale REFLUX™ Classifier (RC™ 1800), supplied by Ludowici Australia, was evaluated using a coal and mineral matter feed nominally less than 2 mm in size. The unit was installed,
This article introduces the Reflux Classifier Concentrator (RCC), an innovative refinement of the Reflux Classifier (RC) technology. By capitalising on the already proven RC technology, the RCC achieves heightened efficiency in recovering valuable minerals from low-grade resources. Key design enhancements include a …
The FL suite of REFLUX™ technology equipment integrates known separation techniques with inclined channels to enhance performance. Gravity-based separation and flotation techniques benefit from implementation of a mechanism that produces a laminar high shear rate. This mechanism improves the operational capability of these separation ...
The REFLUX Concentrating Classifier (RCC™) builds upon the success of our original patented REFLUX Classifier (RC™), utilising gravity-based separation techniques to tackle the recovery challenges associated with low-grade minerals. Modifications to the proven, successful REFLUX design, and additional control parameters, result in vast ...
Reflux™ Classifier (RC), one of the advance gravity separator in coal and mineral processing industries, is a combination of liquid fluidized bed, autogenous dense …
The reflux classifier (RC) is an innovative device offering advantages in both particle . size classification and d ensity separation [3]. The device consists of fluidized bed sections .
In this work, the reflux classifier with closely spaced inclined channels is used as the pre-concentration facility to improve the separation efficiency before the shaking table separation. Three operating parameters of reflux classifier (RC) to pre-concentrate fine(0.023–0.15 mm) tailings of antimony oxide were optimized by response surface …