Electrostatic separation has been extensively used in mineral processing,and has the potential to separate gangue minerals from raw talcum ore.As for electrostatic separation,the particle charging status is one of imp...Electrostatic separation has been extensively used in mineral processing,and has the potential to separate gangue minerals from raw talcum ore.As for electrostatic separation,the particle charging status is one of important influence factors.To describe the talcum particle charging status in a parallel plate electrostatic separator accurately,this paper proposes a modern images processing method.Based on the actual trajectories obtained from sequence images of particle movement and the analysis of physical forces applied on a charged particle,a numerical model is built,which could calculate the charge-to-mass ratios represented as the charging status of particle and simulate the particle trajectories.The simulated trajectories agree well with the experimental results obtained by images processing.In addition,chemical composition analysis is employed to reveal the relationship between ferrum gangue mineral content and charge-tomass ratios.Research results show that the proposed method is effective for describing the particle charging status in electrostatic separation.展开更多
The article introduced the toxicological information of talcum powder, analyzed the relevant requirements on talcum powder in cosmetics and the impurity asbestos in China, the EU, the US, and Canada, and the safety of...The article introduced the toxicological information of talcum powder, analyzed the relevant requirements on talcum powder in cosmetics and the impurity asbestos in China, the EU, the US, and Canada, and the safety of the substance is also evaluated to help regulators and relevant enterprises understand its hazards and to promote consumers' awareness of talcum powder.展开更多
Separator is supposed to own outstanding thermal stability,superior wettability and electrolyte uptake,which is essential for developing high-rate and safe lithium metal batteries(LMBs).However,commercial polyolefin s...Separator is supposed to own outstanding thermal stability,superior wettability and electrolyte uptake,which is essential for developing high-rate and safe lithium metal batteries(LMBs).However,commercial polyolefin separators possess poor wettability and limited electrolyte uptake.For addressing this issue,we put forward a composite separator to implement above functions by doping layered-silicate(talcum)into polyvinylidene fluoride(PVDF).With significant improvement of electrolyte absorption benefiting from the strong adsorption energy values(-1.64-1.70 eV)between talcum and the electrolyte in lithium metal batteries,PVDF/Talcum(PVDF/TM)composite separator owns a small contact angle and superior electrolyte uptake.PVDF/TM composite separator with 10 wt%talcum(T-10)owns a tiny contact angle of 8°,while those of polypropylene(PP)and PVDF are 48°and 20°with commercial electrolyte.Moreover,the addition of thermotolerant talcum endows the T-10 composite separator with great thermostability,whose thermal shrinkage is only 5.39%at 150°C for 0.5 h.The cell with LiFeO4cathode and the T-10 composite separator reaches 91.7 m Ah/g in discharge capacity at 4.8 m A/cm^(2)(10 C),far superior to that with pure PVDF separator(56.3 m Ah/g)and PP(51.4 m Ah/g).展开更多
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51607023)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.DUT16QY36)
文摘Electrostatic separation has been extensively used in mineral processing,and has the potential to separate gangue minerals from raw talcum ore.As for electrostatic separation,the particle charging status is one of important influence factors.To describe the talcum particle charging status in a parallel plate electrostatic separator accurately,this paper proposes a modern images processing method.Based on the actual trajectories obtained from sequence images of particle movement and the analysis of physical forces applied on a charged particle,a numerical model is built,which could calculate the charge-to-mass ratios represented as the charging status of particle and simulate the particle trajectories.The simulated trajectories agree well with the experimental results obtained by images processing.In addition,chemical composition analysis is employed to reveal the relationship between ferrum gangue mineral content and charge-tomass ratios.Research results show that the proposed method is effective for describing the particle charging status in electrostatic separation.
文摘The article introduced the toxicological information of talcum powder, analyzed the relevant requirements on talcum powder in cosmetics and the impurity asbestos in China, the EU, the US, and Canada, and the safety of the substance is also evaluated to help regulators and relevant enterprises understand its hazards and to promote consumers' awareness of talcum powder.
基金supported by the Science Foundation of National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Advanced Composites in Special Environmentsthe National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.12002109)。
文摘Separator is supposed to own outstanding thermal stability,superior wettability and electrolyte uptake,which is essential for developing high-rate and safe lithium metal batteries(LMBs).However,commercial polyolefin separators possess poor wettability and limited electrolyte uptake.For addressing this issue,we put forward a composite separator to implement above functions by doping layered-silicate(talcum)into polyvinylidene fluoride(PVDF).With significant improvement of electrolyte absorption benefiting from the strong adsorption energy values(-1.64-1.70 eV)between talcum and the electrolyte in lithium metal batteries,PVDF/Talcum(PVDF/TM)composite separator owns a small contact angle and superior electrolyte uptake.PVDF/TM composite separator with 10 wt%talcum(T-10)owns a tiny contact angle of 8°,while those of polypropylene(PP)and PVDF are 48°and 20°with commercial electrolyte.Moreover,the addition of thermotolerant talcum endows the T-10 composite separator with great thermostability,whose thermal shrinkage is only 5.39%at 150°C for 0.5 h.The cell with LiFeO4cathode and the T-10 composite separator reaches 91.7 m Ah/g in discharge capacity at 4.8 m A/cm^(2)(10 C),far superior to that with pure PVDF separator(56.3 m Ah/g)and PP(51.4 m Ah/g).
