Agitation type flotation cell

Figure 10.2 Illustration of an agitation type flotation cell. From Nguyen and Schulze [53], Copyright 2004, Dekker.

Fig. 16.2-1, in the presence of air that is sucked or fed into the impeller zone where the air is well dispersed owing to the intense agitation in that zone. The air bubbles collide with pardcles and are attached to those that are hydrophobic or heve acquired hydrophobicity. The bubble-particle aggregates hue to the rop of the cell and are removed by skimming. Various types of machine that ase used by the industry have been described in detail by Harris in a recent publication on flotation.1... 

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