Kämpjärvi , P & Jämsä-Jounela , S-L 2003 , ' Level control strategies for flotation cells ' Minerals Engineering , vol 16 , no. 11 , pp. 1061-1068 . DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2003.06.004
Abstract:
Flotation is a difficult process to run efficiently. One way to make flotation performance better is to improve cell level control. However, controlling pulp levels in flotation cells is a complex control task because of strong interactions between the levels in flotation cells. Therefore advanced controllers are needed to give good level control. This paper deals with a model of six flotation cells in series. Simulations are performed to compare different control strategies. Four control strategies are considered: one SISO controller and three different MIMO controllers including a new multivariable controller. It is shown that level control performances of the MIMO controllers are significantly better than that of the classical SISO controller.