JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Pre-Requisites

NIL

Course Objectives

To study various mineral processing techniques to enrich minerals

Course Outcomes

At the end of the course, students will be able to

• 1. Know different sample division techniques.
• 2. Determine the grinding and crushing characteristics of a given mineral sample.
• 3. Know the washability characteristic of a coal sample.
• 4. Determine the moisture content by drying of mineral sample.
• 5. Determine the average size of samples.

LIST OF EXPERIMENTS:

• 1. Study of grab sampling and different sample division techniques like coning and quartering, riffle sampling techniques, etc.
• 2. Determination of crushing characteristics of a given mineral sample using jaw crusher
• 3. Determination of the grinding characteristics of a given mineral sample un=sing ball mill.
• 4. Sieve analysis of a given sample and to calculate (a) percentage sample retained on screens
• (b) average size of ample material and (c) to plot sizing curves
• 5. Concentration of a given mineral using Wilfley table
• 6. Concentration of a given mineral using froth flotation cell
• 7. concentration of a given mineral using magnetic separator
• 8. Study of washability characteristic of coal samples using sink-float tests.
• 9. Study of sedimentation characteristics of a given sample R18 B.TECH MINING ENGG. III YEAR