Abstract
The capability for on-line measurement of the quality characteristics of conveyed coal now enables mine operators to take advantage of the inherent heterogeneity of those streams and split them into wash and no-wash stocks. Relative to processing the entire stream, this reduces the amount of coal that must be washed at the mine and, thereby reducing processing costs, recovery losses and refuse-generation levels. In this paper, new approaches for optimal control of the segregation process using time-series models and empirical distributions are presented and demonstrated using field data.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 41-47 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Volume | 51 |
| No | 4 |
| Specialist publication | Mining Engineering |
| State | Published - Apr 1999 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology