Lagrangian reconciliation of expeditious analyzes on microflotation of hematite and dolomite by carboxylates

• Autor(a) principal: Gomes, Bruna de Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Sales, Fernanda Bento, Luz, José Aurélio Medeiros da, Milhomem, Felipe de Orquiza
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/39831
• topic: Célula de fuerstenau; Óleo de caroço de algodão; Análise simplificada; Multiplicadores de lagrange.; Fuerstenau cell; Cottonseed oil; Quick analysis; Lagrange multipliers.; Celda de fuerstenau; Aceite de semilla de algodón; Análisis expedito; Multiplicadores de lagrange.

Microflotation campaign of a synthetic binary mixture of hematite and dolomite was carried out in order to evaluate the potential of saponified cottonseed oil as a collector. Hematite content was determined by expeditious methods, namely image analysis, pycnometry, and carbonate thermolysis by calcination. An algebraic reconciliation algorithm of redundant data (via Lagrange multipliers) was developed to treat the raw data from the different analytical techniques, aiming to increase the accuracy of the results, with the additional piece of information arising from product weighing, by introducing a dummy variable. At the stage of the study reported here, the physicochemical conditions for the selective flotation of hematite were not optimized; however, the results showed potential (both under acid and alkaline conditions) for the selective anionic flotation of the hematite/dolomite system. Prospective tests evaluating the analytical techniques employed showed pycnometry and calcination tended to be more reliable methods. Although the imaging method has shown promise, it still lacks some improvement in procedure for greater accuracy. The minimization of closure errors in mass balancing by using the mentioned optimization algorithm under constraints showed to be very relevant for the adequate evaluation of the separation process, using very small samples, as in the case of microflotation.