Flotation of a new chelate collector on fine refractory iron ore-containing carbonate

Abstract

A suitable and efficient flotation collector at normal atmospheric temperature for Donganshan iron ore was developed. A new chelate collector W-2 was synthesized. At 30 °C, condition flotation tests on mixed magnetic concentrate of Donganshan sintering plant established the best reagent system. With the optimum reagent system, one direct flotation and one reverse flotation including one roughing, one cleaning and two scavenging stages have been conducted. After closed-circuit flotation, excellent indices were obtained with grade of siderite concentrate of 36.49%, recovery rate of 10.65%, and loss on ignition of 11.17%, and the grade of hematite concentrate reached 66.27%, with recovery rate of 78.25%, tailing grade of 16.22%, and recovery rate of 11.10%. To analyze the mechanism of action from W-2 to quartz and siderite, zeta potential and FTIR spectra were detected. Results showed that after reaction with W-2, the zeta potential of quartz and siderite evidently changed, which resulted from hydrogen bond between quartz and W-2, and a certain chemical action between siderite and W-2. In addition, the electronegativity equalization principle was used to calculate electronegativity of active adsorption sites and analysis on reagent molecular structure showed that W-2 molecule had five active adsorption sites. Results showed that the electronegativity of atoms N and O in W-2 presented a substantial increase, and the synergy of atomic sites allowed considerable enhancement of collecting ability.

Keywords

iron ore-containing carbonate / flotation / collector / hydrogen bonding / mechanism / electronegativity

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