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Miller, Jan D. | Chrysocolla flotation by the formation of insoluble surface chelates | Pure chrysocolla is floated with chelating agents that form insoluble complexes with copper at ambient temperature. Complete flotation is obtained with potassium octyl hydroxamate as collector at pH 6. Flotation response is enhanced with increased temperature when low additions of h ydroxamate are ... | Chrysocolla; Copper chelating compounds; Flotation systems | 1965 |
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Miller, Jan D. | Comparison of process alternatives for gold recovery from cyanide leach solutions | Both conventional and nonconventional process alternatives for gold recovery from cyanide heap leach solutions are discussed in terms of possible flowsheets. Conventional process alternatives include carbon adsorption and zinc dust precipitation, while nonconventional process alternatives include re... | Conventional; Exchange; Flowsheet | 1984 |
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Miller, Jan D. | Concentration | The most startling development in concentration processes this past year would have to be the results obtained after magnetic treatment of aqueous systems. Beneficial effects were reported in both flotation and thickening on an industrial scale following the application of a magnetic field to ... | Concentration; Aqueous systems; Pulp; Magnetic treatment | 1969 |
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Miller, Jan D. | Cone beam X-ray microtomography - a new facility for three-dimensional analysis of multiphase materials | As the techniques and resolution for three-dimensional spatial analysis have advanced in the last decade, it is now possible to map in detail the micro structure of multiphase materials in three-dimensional digital space. In this regard, three-dimensional X-ray microtomography offers a unique imagin... | Cone beam X-ray microtomography; Three-dimensional analysis; Material characterization | 2002 |
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Miller, Jan D. | Conformation of chemisorbed oleate at a calcite surface | The surface chemistry of the calcite/oleate flotation system was examined by in situ FT-NIR/IRS. Spectra of combination and overtone bands of aliphatic stretching vibrations revealed gauche/trans conformational changes that occurred solely as a function of temperature. The conformational changes wer... | Chemisorption; Oleate; Calcite; Gauche/trans conformation; Rotational isomerism | 2001 |
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Dong, Jiawei | Consolidation and permeability of flocculated kaolinite sediment | Vast oil sand resources are located in the province of Alberta, Canada, where water-based oil sands extraction operations are found including extraction and separation of the bitumen from the clay, sand, and water. The production of each barrel of synthetic crude oil (SCO) requires 2 m3 of processe... | Consolidation; Flocculation; Kaolinite; Permeability | 2017 |
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Miller, Jan D. | Critical review of wetting and adhesion phenomena in the preparation of polymer-mineral composites | The wetting behavior of liquid polymers at solid surfaces and the adhesion forces involved at polymer-filler interfaces should always be considered in the preparation of high-quality polymer composites, including those made with mineral fillers. Spontaneous polymer spreading over the filler surface... | Polymer-minerals; Composites; Wetting; Adhesion | 1995 |
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Miller, Jan D. | Determination of Madelung constants for infinite and semi-infinite lattices by direct summation | Lattice sums for the electrostatic interactions in ionic crystals, first evaluated by Madelung, are now known to high degrees of accuracy. The problem of conditional convergence has been solved either by manipulations of a mathematical model of the lattice, or by directly summing over neutral group... | Lattices; Madelung constants | 1976 |
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Miller, Jan D. | Development and application of centrifugal flotation systems in wastewater treatment | Flotation as a wastewater treatment technique is designed to remove all particles generally encountered as very fine emulsions, suspended solids, and colloids from wastewater. Historically, Dissolved Air Flotation (DAF) has been used to achieve this removal. More recently, other flotation techniques... | Wastewater treatment; Centrifugal flotation; Liquid cyclone mixing; Hybrid centrifugal dissolved-air flotation; ASH; BAF; GEM; FF | 2007 |
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Miller, Jan D.; Herbst, John A.; Lin, Chen-Luh | Development of a multicomponent-multisize liberation model | This paper is concerned with the development of a kinetic model for mineral liberation by grinding. Existing population balance size reduction models are extended to include two minerals with an arbitrary number of locked particle fractions. The validity of this approach to liberation modelling is d... | Population balance; size reduction; liberation; grinding model | 1985 |
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Miller, Jan D.; Lin, Chen-Luh | Development of a PC, image-based, on-line particle size analyzer | A PC, image-based, on-line instrument for measuring coarse particle size on a conveyor belt is under development. The hardware and software required to implement such a system are discussed, including the interface for the special image-acquisition hardware. The system concept is given with exampl... | | 1993 |
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Miller, Jan D. | Development of the air-sparged hydrocyclone - a swirl-flow flotation column | From laboratory research activities during the past five years, it is now evident that effective flotation separations can be achieved with the high-capacity air-sparged hydrocyclone. | Air-sparged hydrocyclone; Froth core | 1988 |
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Miller, Jan D. | Dimethyl ether - a new synthetic fuel commodity and chemical building block | Dimethyl ether (DME) is recognized as a potential next-generation, environmentally benign commodity for energy storage and distribution, as well as a momentous chemical building block. DME can be produced at a competitive price from synthesis gas conveniently generated from a variety of carbon-cont... | Dimethyl ether; DME; Energy carrier; Energy commodity; Diesel fuel | 2005 |
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Miller, Jan D. | Direct three-dimensional liberation analysis by cone beam x-ray microtomography | Liberation of valuable minerals during size reduction is an important aspect of mineral processing technology. In practice, most quantitative information on liberation is based on the application of stereological theorems for the analysis of image data from two-dimensional polished sections. On th... | Mineral processing; Cone beam x-ray; Microtomography | 1997 |
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Miller, Jan D. | Dispersed oil impact on froth stability in flotation | Foam stability in flotation has been studied for more than half of the last century, however, the mechanisms responsible for the defoaming action of many presently used reagents are not completely understood. This research presents oil flotation data, which may be used in the evaluation of aqueous ... | Particles; Defoaming; Surfactants | 2001 |
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Miller, Jan D.; Deo, Milind; Lin, Chen-Luh | Distribution of multiphase fluids in porous media: comparison between lattice Boltzmann modeling and micro-x-ray tomography | A parallel implementation of the three-dimensional Shan-and-Chen multicomponent, multiphase lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) was used to simulate the equilibrium distributions of two immiscible fluids in porous media. The simulations were successfully validated against cone-beam x-ray microtomographi... | Multiphase fluid flow; Porous media; X-ray microtomography | 2008-02 |
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Miller, Jan D. | Effect of feed source in the hot water processing of Utah tar sand | The processing strategy for the effective separation of bitumen from low grade (K.10 weight percent bitumen) Utah tar sands by a hot water process differs significantly from that used for the processing of high grade (> 10 weight percent bitumen) Utah tar sands. Excellent separations (coefficient o... | Tar sand; Utah; Bitumen; Hot water separation; Froth flotation | 1980 |
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Miller, Jan D. | Effect of ink types and printing processes on flotation deinking | Examination of ink types reveals that newsprint oil-based offset-cold and offset-heat inks contain substantial oil (45 to 60%) and resin (5 to 35%), water-based ink contains water (40%) and resin (polystyrene, 30%). These inks are liquids with densities around 1 g/cm3, having various viscosities... | Toners; Inks; Photocopying; Laser printing; Flotation; Deinking; Recycling; Office waste; Hyrdophobicity | 1997 |
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Miller, Jan D. | Effect of pH on pulping and flotation of mixed office wastepaper | The effect of pulping reagents on the deinking flotation of laser-printed wastepaper was investigated with regard to the removal efficiency of toner and mineral filler particles at different pH values. These results show that caustic pulping causes the toner to be released from the fibres as larger... | Wastepaper; Deinking; pH values; Pulp production processes | 1999 |
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Miller, Jan D. | Effect of surface oxidation on interfacial water structure at the pyrite (100) surface as studied by MDS | Flotation provides a number of alternatives for the processing of gold ores containing sulfide minerals. e.g. flotation of free gold and gold-bearing sulfides to produce a gold-rich concentrate for regrinding, oxidative pretreatment and cyanidation. | | 2014-01-01 |
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Miller, Jan D. | Electrochemistry in silver catalysed ferric sulfate leaching of chalcopyrite | Previous investigations have demonstrated the catalytic effect of silver additions in the ferric sulfate leaching of chalcopyrite. CuFeS2 + 4Fe+3 > Cu++ + 5Fe++ + 2S° The enhanced rate of leaching was found to be due to the formation of an intermediate Ag2S film which forms on the CuFeS2 surf... | Reaction; Sulfur; Elemental | 1981 |
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Miller, Jan D.; Wan, Rong Yu | Enhanced ferric sulphate leaching of copper from CuFeS2 and C particulate aggregates | Significantly faster leaching kinetics for ferric sulphate are achieved for particulate aggregates of CuFeS2 and C than for CuFeS2 itself. The effect of carbon particles upon the rate of dissolution of chalcopyrite has been increased by a factor of 4 (after 10 hours' leaching), depending upon the ... | Reaction; Chalcopyrite; Electrochemical | 1984 |
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Miller, Jan D. | Equilibrium and kinetics of copper extraction from ammoniacal solutions by hydroxoximes with particular emphasis on transport phenomena | The chemistry of copper extraction from ammoniacal solutions by hydroxyoxime extractants was studied. Equilibrium measurements were made by shakeout experiments with subsequent analyasis of the aqueous and/or organic phases. The kinetic experiments were carried out in a single drop reaction cell in ... | Reactant; Concentration; Dispersed | 1981 |
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Miller, Jan D. | Erratum to Evaluation of stucco binder for agglomeration in the heap leaching of copper ore | Figure 8 top legend is mentioned incorrectly. The legend "With ferric sulfate: column leaching of agglomerates (stucco) should be red in color and column leaching of agglomerates (no stucco) should be blue in color. The correct Fig. 8 is shown below. The authors would like to apologize for the incon... | | 2011-01-01 |
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Miller, Jan D. | Evaluation of a CT-based coal washability analysis system under simulated on-line conditions | The appropriate software and hardware necessary to adapt an X-ray CTanalyzerfor the determination of coal washability was developed and successfully tested for well-characterized samples under laboratory conditions. Evaluation of the CT-based analyzer under simulated on-line conditions is also prese... | Coal washability; Computer simulation; X-ray CT analysis | 2002 |
