Abstract
AbstractSoaps, the salts of fatty acids are generally used as collectors in the flotation process to separate salt type minerals. Some times light diesel oil is mixed with soaps and the emulsion is used as collector. Addition of detergents to soaps not only enhances the collector efficiency but also reduces the consumption of soap. Urea a known hydro trope is found to improve the flotation efficiency of soaps. Our current testing is indicating that other hydro tropes such as tri sodium citrate and sodium salicylate are also effective in improving the flotation efficiency of soap and also the soap-LDO emulsion.
Highlights
Jordan is blessed with huge phosphate ore deposits covering an area about 125 square kilometers
The reagents used in the flotation circuit are tall oil, light diesel oil (LDO), sodium silicate and sodium hydroxide
In the present study sodium salicylate is tested at bench scale experiments with doses of 0.145 and 0.58, 1.16 Kgs per ton of ore and compared with plant conditions that is tall oil at 0.97 Kg per ton of ore, light diesel oil at 1.16 Kg per ton of ore and sodium silicate 0.35 Kg per ton of ore
Summary
Jordan is blessed with huge phosphate ore deposits covering an area about 125 square kilometers. The phosphate ore deposition occurred in three layers marked as A1, A2 and A3. A1 layer with a thickness of 2.6 meters has an over burden of 14 meters followed by an inter burden of 2 meters below which A2 layer of thickness 1 meter is located. The A2 layer there is an inter burden of 0.3 meters followed by A3 layer of 1.7 meters.
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