1. CÁLCULO ITERATIVO DA CARGA CIRCULANTE EM CIRCUITOS FECHADOS.
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Silva, André Carlos, Schons Silva, Elenice Maria, and De Rezende, Ricardo Antônio
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ITERATIVE methods (Mathematics) , *MASS budget (Geophysics) , *MINERAL processing , *ALGORITHMS , *WATER balance (Hydrology) - Abstract
A problem in mass balance resolution in mineral processing plants is the circulation load in closed-circuits. A family of methods which can be used to solve the circulating load is the iterative methods. This paper shows a low complexity algorithm to calculate the circulation load in closed circuits which allows the construction of mass, metallurgic and water reliable balances. The proposed algorithm was validated against results from Caspeo BILCO software and real industrial data for two different closed-circuits types. The obtained results are satisfactory with respect to the calculated result, processing speed, solution convergence and number of iterations needed to evaluate the circulation load. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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