The effects of chemical pretreatment on tribocharging of density fraction coal

Abstract Dry triboelectric separation of coal depends on tribocharge difference of the coal and gangue mineral. The coal samples of different density fraction prepared by sink-and-float method were pretreated by chemicals and their effects on the tribocharge performance with stainless steel were studied by measuring the charge-to-mass and relative dielectric constant. The results show the tribocharging performance of middle density fraction coal is the worst compared with other density fractions. The charge of lower density fraction was increased by chemical conditioning with light diesel oil, ammonia, and kerosene, while the charge of higher density fraction was decreased with ethanol and lignin.

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