Recent advances in fundamentals and applications of nanobubble enhanced froth flotation: A review

D Tao - Minerals Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Nanobubbles are tiny in size but huge in importance for many scientific fields and
applications in biology, agriculture, medicine, environment and engineering. Literature on …

Full life circle of micro-nano bubbles: Generation, characterization and applications

J Jia, Z Zhu, H Chen, H Pan, L Jiang, WH Su… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Micro-nano bubbles (MNBs) usually refer to ultrafine bubbles less than 100 μm in diameter,
exhibiting extraordinary physical and chemical properties compared with those of macro …

Investigation of nanobubble enhanced reverse anionic flotation of hematite and associated mechanisms

D Tao, Z Wu, A Sobhy - Powder Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Hematite is commonly upgraded in China using a reverse anionic flotation process with
starch as depressant for hematite, Ca 2+ as activator and fatty acids as collector for quartz …

New insights into mechanisms of pyrite flotation enhancement by hydrodynamic cavitation nanobubbles

Z Wu, D Tao, Y Tao, G Ma - Minerals Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Although it is well known that cavitation nanobubbles significantly improve the flotation
performance of mineral particles, the effects of nanobubbles on sulfide mineral surface …

[HTML][HTML] Differentiating bulk nanobubbles from nanodroplets and nanoparticles

F Eklund, M Alheshibri, J Swenson - Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface …, 2021 - Elsevier
History has shown that it is not as easy as one might think to differentiate between bulk
nanobubbles and nanodroplets or nanoparticles. It is generally easy to detect colloids (ie …

Nanobubbles and nanoparticles

M Alheshibri, A Al Baroot, L Shui, M Zhang - Current Opinion in Colloid & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Gas saturated solutions have attracted great attention in the past two decades with reports of
stable nanobubbles in solutions. The fundamental interest focus arises from the surprising …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of operating parameters on nanobubble-assisted flotation of graphite

S Nazari, S Zhou, A Hassanzadeh, J Li, Y He… - journal of materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
Although many studies have focused on processing of lithium-ion batteries (LiBs), there is a
considerable lack of information concerning the application of nanobubbles (NBs) in their …

Surface nanobubble characterization and its enhancement mechanisms for fine-particle flotation: A review

F Ma, P Zhang, D Tao - International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy and …, 2022 - Springer
Froth flotation is often used for fine-particle separation, but its process efficiency rapidly
decreases with decreasing particle size. The efficient separation of ultrafine particles (UFPs) …

Recent developments in generation, detection and application of nanobubbles in flotation

S Nazari, A Hassanzadeh, Y He, H Khoshdast… - Minerals, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper reviews recent developments in the fundamental understating of ultrafine (nano)
bubbles (NBs) and presents technological advances and reagent types used for their …

Study on surface physical and chemical mechanism of nanobubble enhanced flotation of fine graphite

T Chongliang, M Fangyuan, W Tingyu, Z Di… - Journal of Industrial and …, 2023 - Elsevier
It has been concluded in a recently published investigation that the nanobubble flotation
process significantly reduces the number of fine flake graphite flotation stages and improves …