Dense medium cyclone(DMC)is the working horse in coal industry.In practice,it is usually operated under constant pressure and the operational conditions(mainly medium-to-coal(M:C)ratio and oper-ational pressure)need t...Dense medium cyclone(DMC)is the working horse in coal industry.In practice,it is usually operated under constant pressure and the operational conditions(mainly medium-to-coal(M:C)ratio and oper-ational pressure)need to be adjusted according to coal washability data(mainly coal particle size and density distributions).Nonetheless,until now it is still not well understood how the M:C ratio would affect the performance of DMCs especially under the practical conditions.In this work,the effect of M:C ratio is for the first time numerically studied under conditions similar to plant operation by using both tra-ditional and coarse-grained(CG)combined approach of computational fluid dynamics(CFD)and discrete element method(DEM),called as traditional CFD-DEM and CG CFD-DEM,in which the flow of coal par-ticles is modelled by DEM or CG DEM which applies Newton's laws of motion to individual particles and that of medium flow by the conventional CFD which solves the local-averaged Navier-Stokes equations,allowing consideration of particle-fluid mutual interaction and particle-particle collisions.Moreover,impulse and momentum connection law is used to achieve energy conservation between traditional CFD-DEM and CG CFD-DEM.It is found that under constant pressure,the M:C ratio affects DMC perfor-mance significantly.The specific effect depends on coal washability or coal type.Under extremely low M:C ratio,the phenomenon that high-quality coal product is misplaced to reject is successfully repro-duced,which has been observed in plants in Australian coal industry and called as"low-density tail".Moreover,strategies are proposed to mitigate the"low-density tail"phenomenon based on the model.展开更多
The coal processing methods used at the Zarand coal washery plant are the heavy medium bath,jigs,and flotation.The coal-containing materials that are fed to the plant are acquired from different mines,and they have di...The coal processing methods used at the Zarand coal washery plant are the heavy medium bath,jigs,and flotation.The coal-containing materials that are fed to the plant are acquired from different mines,and they have different washability properties.In this paper,the validity of Mayer curve (M-curve),the conventional method for determining coal washability,was evaluated on blending of raw coals that are fed to the plant.Washability curves were prepared for the hand-blended samples and compared with the washability predicted by the Mayer curves.Different samples from different seams and mines were blended by hand in 50:50 ratios,and sink and float tests were performed;the resulting washability curves were in good agreement with the washability curves predicted using the Mayer method for the same blending ratio.This work resulted in the preparation of the optimum plant feed that can be achieved from the blending of different coal samples to produce the best plant yield at a given ash content.展开更多
基金the financial supports provided by Shandong University,Northwestern Polytechnical University Laboratory Open Fund(grant No.6142701200203)Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation,(grant No.ZR2020ME107),Natural Science Foundation of Jjiangsu Province(grant No.BK20180287)China Association for Science and Technology"Young Talent Support Project".
文摘Dense medium cyclone(DMC)is the working horse in coal industry.In practice,it is usually operated under constant pressure and the operational conditions(mainly medium-to-coal(M:C)ratio and oper-ational pressure)need to be adjusted according to coal washability data(mainly coal particle size and density distributions).Nonetheless,until now it is still not well understood how the M:C ratio would affect the performance of DMCs especially under the practical conditions.In this work,the effect of M:C ratio is for the first time numerically studied under conditions similar to plant operation by using both tra-ditional and coarse-grained(CG)combined approach of computational fluid dynamics(CFD)and discrete element method(DEM),called as traditional CFD-DEM and CG CFD-DEM,in which the flow of coal par-ticles is modelled by DEM or CG DEM which applies Newton's laws of motion to individual particles and that of medium flow by the conventional CFD which solves the local-averaged Navier-Stokes equations,allowing consideration of particle-fluid mutual interaction and particle-particle collisions.Moreover,impulse and momentum connection law is used to achieve energy conservation between traditional CFD-DEM and CG CFD-DEM.It is found that under constant pressure,the M:C ratio affects DMC perfor-mance significantly.The specific effect depends on coal washability or coal type.Under extremely low M:C ratio,the phenomenon that high-quality coal product is misplaced to reject is successfully repro-duced,which has been observed in plants in Australian coal industry and called as"low-density tail".Moreover,strategies are proposed to mitigate the"low-density tail"phenomenon based on the model.
基金supports for this work that were received from the Zarand coal washing R&D center and Science and Research Branch (Tehran) of Islamic Azad University
文摘The coal processing methods used at the Zarand coal washery plant are the heavy medium bath,jigs,and flotation.The coal-containing materials that are fed to the plant are acquired from different mines,and they have different washability properties.In this paper,the validity of Mayer curve (M-curve),the conventional method for determining coal washability,was evaluated on blending of raw coals that are fed to the plant.Washability curves were prepared for the hand-blended samples and compared with the washability predicted by the Mayer curves.Different samples from different seams and mines were blended by hand in 50:50 ratios,and sink and float tests were performed;the resulting washability curves were in good agreement with the washability curves predicted using the Mayer method for the same blending ratio.This work resulted in the preparation of the optimum plant feed that can be achieved from the blending of different coal samples to produce the best plant yield at a given ash content.
