Abstract
Though substantial coal-washing activities are carried out in a tropical climate, in the 70-yr history of coal flotation, the effect of diurnal and seasonal variations in temperature as an operational variable has received only limited attention. This review examines the current knowledge on the effect of temperature on coal flotation performance and finds that coals with strong natural hydrophobicity do not seem to be affected by a variation in pulp temperature. Difficult-to-float coals, however, appear to float well within a temperature range of 20–35°C with considerable improvement in all flotation indices, concentrate yield and ash, recovery of combustibles, flotation rate, and tailing ash as compared to their values at higher or lower temperature.
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