Educational guide 2015_16
E. T. S. de Enxeñaría de Minas
Grao en Enxeñaría dos Recursos Mineiros e Enerxéticos
 Subjects
  Minerallurgy
   Contents
Topic Sub-topic
DIDACTIC UNIT 1. Introduction to mineral processing and his technology - Mineral substances, metallic minerals and no metallic
- Methods of mineral processing
- Costs of the mineral processing
- Diagrams of flow
- Efficiency of the operations of mineral processing: release (fragmentation) and concentration (enrichment).
- Introduction to the technologies of release and enrichment: reduction of the size, classification, concentration, flotation, magnetic and electrostatic separation.
DIDACTIC UNIT 2. Crushing and mill. Reduction of size. -Fragmentation of the solids and his purpose
- Theory of wool fragmentation
- energetic Laws
- Types of fragmentation and stages
- Fragmentation by compression: crushes of jaws, rotational crushes and cones.
- Fragmentation by percussion: mills of hammers and mixed
- Fragmentation by mixed processes: bars, balls and autogenous
-practical Cases of circuits of calculation of balance of masses in circuits with crushers and mills.
DIDACTIC UNIT 3. Sorting. Control of size and classification - Direct classification: sifted. Factors, performance and efficiency and teams of sifted.
- Indirect classification: foundations, types of settlement, types of sorters , efficiency and performance.
- Practical cases of calculation of balance of masses of circuits with screeners in dry, in humid and working with pulpes.
DIDACTIC UNIT 4. Concentration 1. Gravimetric concentration in water.
- Pull buttons JIG
- Tables of shakes
- Spiral Humphreys
- Channels of tips
- Cones Reichert
- Concentrators of centrifugal
- Concentrator Mozley
2. Gravimetricconcentration in half dense (DMS)
- Principles
- Liquid of separation
- Equips of gravity screening
- Equips of centrifugal screening
DIDACTIC UNIT 5. Magnetic separation. - Principles of the method
- Teams of separation
- Purificación
- Concentration
- humid Road
- dry way
DIDACTIC UNIT 6. Electrostatic separation - Principles of the method
- Teams of separation
- Electrodynamic or of high tension
- Electrostatic
- Type rotor
- Type plate
- Of plate
- Of mesh
DIDACTIC UNIT 7: Flotation - Principles of the method
- Types
- Reactive of flotation
- Teams
- Variable in the flotation
- selective Flotation
DIDACTIC UNIT 7. The control of the mineralurgic process - Taking of samples. Conditionings
- Systems of sampling and division of the samples
- Technical analytical for the control of the mineralurgic process
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