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Advanced Control and Supervision of Mineral Processing Plants

  • Provides the reader with up-to-date information on the application of modern control methods in the mineral processing industries
  • Readers can investigate the benefits of this book further using the examples and MATLAB® code available from the book’s website
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Advances in Industrial Control (AIC)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Introduction

    • Daniel Sbárbaro, René del Villar
    Pages 1-14
  3. Soft Sensing

    • Guillermo D. González
    Pages 143-212
  4. Automatic Control of Flotation Columns

    • René del Villar, André Desbiens, Miguel Maldonado, Jocelyn Bouchard
    Pages 249-286
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 309-311

About this book

Advanced Control and Supervision of Mineral Processing Plants describes the use of dynamic models of mineral processing equipment in the design of control, data reconciliation and soft-sensing schemes; through examples, it illustrates tools integrating simulation and control system design for comminuting circuits and flotation columns. Coverage is given to the design of soft sensors based on either single-point measurements or more complex measurements like images. Issues concerning data reconciliation and its employment in the creation of instrument architecture and fault diagnosis are surveyed. In consideration of the widespread use of distributed control and information management systems in mineral processing, the book describes the platforms and toolkits available for implementing such systems.

Applications of the techniques described in real plants are used to highlight their benefits; information for all of the examples, together with supporting MATLAB® code can be found at www.springer.com/978-1-84996-105-9.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile

    Daniel Sbárbaro

  • Département de Génie des Mines, de la Métallurgie et des Matériaux, Université Laval, Québec, Canada

    René del Villar

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Softcover Book USD 139.99
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