Model Input Model Output

STEP 1 material balance

Overflow Underflow
125 MTPH Solids 125 375
O/F Size at 60% passing 100 (um) MTPH Water 188 125
O/F %Solids 54 MTPH Slurry 313 500
U/F %Solids 80 % solids, wt 54 80
S.G. of solids 2.65 % solids, vol 31 60
Approx Circulating Load 300 (%) S.G. slurry 1.507 1.992
82.7 Slurry Flow (l/s) 58 70
Units Conversion USGPM slurry 913 1105
psi 12.0 STEP 2 D50C application
Kpa 82.7 D50C application from O/F 60% passing 208
Feed particle size (µm) 80 manual input (any value) www.911metallurgist.com/blog
%Recovery of this Size to U/F 99% (Corrected) In this model, C1, C2, C3 are generated from emperically
We can also get C1, C2, C3 from graphs
STEP 3 cyclone diameter
C1, Correction for feed density 5.9
C2, Correction for influence of pressure drop 0.9
C3, Correction for sp gr solids 1.00
D50C base (µm) 37
Cyclone diameter (inch) 19.43
Area of inlet nozzel (inch2) 18.88
Size of vortex finder (inch) 6.80
STEP 4 number of units required
Actual throughput of a single cyclone of this size (USGPM) 900
Number of cyclone units required 2.5
Underflow per unit (USGPM) 451
Size of apex (inch) 4.25

Cyclone Classification Curves

100%
Particle X Reduced Particle
90% size, µm recovery size, µm
80% (corrected) (corrected) (uncorrected)
200 5.4 100% 1117
y to Underfow

70%
60%
50%
 90%
80%

%Recovery to Underfow
70%
141 3.8 100% 790
60%
100 2.7 100% 559
50% 71 1.9 97% 395
40% 50 1.3 80% 279

30% 35 0.9 45% 197

25 0.7 20% 140
20% Corrected Uncorrected
18 0.5 10% 99
10%
13 0.3 5% 70
0% 9 0.2 3% 49
1 10 100 1000 10000
Feed Particle Size (microns)
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 odel Output
material balance
Feed
500
313
813
62
38
1.621
139
2207
D50C application
208 (µm)
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ed from emperically
C2, C3 from graphs
cyclone diameter
5.9 Graph 3
0.9 Graph 4
1.00 Graph 5
37
19.43
18.88
6.80
mber of units required
900 Graph 1
2.5
451
4.25 Graph 2
ed Uncorrected

00 10000