Front Cover -- Ttile Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- SECTION 1. Preparation Plant Design and Development -- Arch Coal Processing Philosophy, East and West -- Strategies for Washing Australian Coals -- Current Coal Processing Philosophy at Consol Energy -- Analysis of Processes Being Widely Used for Cleaning of Thermal Coal in India -- Identification of Optimum Strategies for the Processing of Fine Coal Streams -- Low Yield Metallurgical Coal: The Tabas Coal Mine Project -- Establishment of 1,000 t/h Coal Preparation Plant at liddell Mine -- Exploring and Practicing on Coal Preparation Flow for Difficulty, Washing Ability, and High-ash Coking Coal at Kailuan -- Process Design of the Phola Coal Preparation Plant -- Innovation Decisions Used in the Projects of New Coal Preparation Factories in the Kuznetsk Basin -- Transformation of Production Capacity Expansion for Anjialing Large Coal Preparation Plant -- Challenge of Increasing Yield and Throughput in Karaganda, Kazakhstan -- The Perspective of the Capacity Development on Coal Preparations of OJSC "SCEC" -- Soma Region's Coal Washing at Dereköy Coal Washery and Performance Evaluation -- Coal Washing Plant with a Capacity of 800 tph in TKI-Soma Region -- The Coal Beneficiation Plant Listwjashnaja: Example for a Modern and Successful Installation Under Difficult Climatic Conditions -- Attracting Investments for Coal Preparation-The Role of Innovations in the Industry -- Raspadskaya Coal Preparation Plant: Selective Slime Flocculation Instead of Flotation -- New Development of Modular Coal Preparation Plant Design in China -- SECTION 2. Marketing and Utilization -- Examining the Thermal Coal Pricing Policy Currently Existing in India -- Environmently Friendly Burning of High-Sulfur Coal -- A Model Services Contract for the Mining Industry: A Dream or Can It Become Reality?.

Combustion of Briquettes and Fuels Pellets Prepared from Blends of Biomass and Fine Coal -- Enhanced Coal Based Fuels -- The Technical Design and Practical Production of Ultra-low-ash Pea Anthracite -- SECTION 3. Preparation Plant Operations -- How Coal Preparation Plant Operational Practices Can Conflict with Optimum Plant Performance and Have a Negative Impact on a Coal Mine's Operating Costs and Profits -- Achieving Automatic Coal Delivery from Coal Yard Control System Upgrades -- The Application of the Amira P754 Metal Accounting Code in the Coal Industry -- Maximum Yield in Sized Steam Coal Cleaning and Raw Coal Blending -- Reduced Maintenance Costs Resulting from the Use of Wear Resistant Materials -- Extending Critical Wear Component Life of Peters Equipment Heavy Media Vessel Using Process Improvement Techniques -- SECTION 4. Screening and Classification -- Some Aspects of Banana Screen Operation -- Developments and Operating Guidelines for Coal Classifying Cyclones -- Development of a Combined Hydrocyclone and Sieve Device for Pretreatment of Flotation Feed -- High Capacity Vibrating Screens -- Predictive Control of Screen Process Efficiency -- SECTION 5. Dense Medium Separations -- Delineation of Large Diameter Dense Medium Cyclone Performance -- Development and Evaluation of the CAVEX Dense Medium Cyclone -- Super-Large Gravity-Fed Three-Product Heavy Medium Cyclone -- Development of a Multi-Stream Monitoring and Control System for Dense Medium Cyclones -- Wet Drum Magnetic Separators for Heavy Media Application, Operation, and Performance -- An Evaluation of Heavy Media Control Methods -- Development and Application of HM Suspension Density-Viscosity Detection Device -- SECTION 6. Water-Based Separations -- Hydraulic Jigging with Horizontal-Stationary Alluvial Bottom Layer -- The Practice and Development of Teetered Bed Separator in China.

Gravity Separation of Coal in the Reflux Classifier: New Mechanisms for Suppressing the Effects of Particle Size -- Gekko IPJ Coal Separator Value Addition in Coal Preparation -- On-Site Evaluation of a Fine Coal Cleaning Circuit Using a Stack Sizer and a Falcon Enhanced Gravity Concentrator -- SECTION 7. Froth Fotation -- Evaluation of the Stack Cell Technology for Coal Applications -- Two Stage Coal Flotation Using a Mechanical Cell -- The Selection of Fine Coal Flotation and Dewatering Technology in a Coal Preparation Plant -- Pneuflot®: Cost Efficient Application for Fine Coal Beneficiation -- A Novel Approach for Improving Column Flotation of Fine and Coarse Coal -- Enhanced Fine Coal Column Flotation Using Cavitation Concept -- New Collector and Modifier Selection for the Flotation of Different Coal Grades -- An Operator Friendly Performance Index for Frother Selection and Optimization in Coal Flotation -- Study on Effects of Circulating Pulp on Separation Performance of FCSMC -- Implementation of Large-Capacity Flotation Machines in Coal Flotation -- A Novel Type of Jet Coal Flotation Machine -- New Coal Flotation Technology Regulated by the Intake Degree of the Air and Reagents -- An Experimental Study of Clay Binders in Fine Coal Froth Flotation -- SECTION 8. Dewatering -- Development of the Centribaric™ Dewatering Technology -- Combination of Centrifuges for Dewatering the Finely Dispersed Slurry and the Flotation Concentrate -- Fine Coal Filtration as Revealed by 3D Lattice-Boltzmann Simulations -- Evaluation of a Pilot-Scale Plate-and-Frame Filter Press for Dewatering Fine Anthracite Refuse -- The Pressure Filtration Technology and Application of the Equipment -- Effects of Electro-chemistry Pretreatment on Dewatering Characteristics of Fine Coal over Cu Electrode -- SECTION 9. Thermal Drying.

Gas Recirculation Fluidized Bed Thermal Drying of Lignite -- Experience of Dryer Operation at the Coal Preparation Plants in Kuzbass and Yakutiya -- The Gas Recirculation Thermal Coal Dryer for Processing Bituminous Filtercake -- SECTION 10. Dry Coal Cleaning -- Application of the FGX Separator in the Enrichment of Catalagzi Coal: A Simulation Study -- Deshaling of Coal by Dual Energy X-Ray Transmission Sorting -- Simulation of the Coal and Rock Particle Interaction Kinetics During the Dry Separation -- Effective Dry Density Beneficiation of Fine Coal Using a New Developed Fluidized Bed Separator -- A Study of Rotary Tribo-Electrostatic Separation of South African Fine Coal -- Dry Cleaning of Coal by a Laboratory Continuous Air Dense Medium Fluidized Bed Separator -- SECTION 11. Low Rank Coal Upgrading -- Beneficiation of Lignites by Heat Treatment -- Enhancement of Montana Coal Sodium Removal Technology, Evaluation, and Development -- Upgrading Lignite Using Drying and Dry Processing Technology -- SECTION 12. Environmental Management -- Mercury in the Coals of Donbass -- Removing Mercury with a Partial Wash Process at Transalta's Sundance Plant, Alberta, Canada -- Cost and Environmental Impact of Out-of-Seam Dilution on Clean Coal -- Trace Element Distribution in Coal Preparation Plant Feedstocks and Products -- Deep Cone Thickener at Lone Mountain Processing Plant -- SECTION 13. On-Line Monitoring and Control -- Fine Coal Measurement Needs for Improved Control -- Natural Gamma Comes of Age for the Quick Measurement of the Ash Content of Coal in Piles, Wagons, and Trucks: Some Case Histories -- Development of a Washability Monitor for Coal Utilizing Optical and X-Ray Analysis Techniques -- Enhanced Process Control: Maximizing Coal Handling Preparation Plant Productivity -- Comparison of Different Methods for Determination of Ash Content in Coal.

Solving Flow and Flotation Monitoring Problems in Coal Preparation Using New, Non-Invasive Passive Array Flowmeter Technology -- Online X-Ray Elemental Analysis of Coal with a Particle Size of Up to 50 mm -- SECTION 14. Modeling and Simulation -- Addressing the Envelope -- Simulation of Mass Transfer in Centrifugal Filtration of Polydisperse Suspension -- Comparison of Density Modelling Approaches in Coal Preparation -- Simulation-Aided Design of a New lignite Washing Plant Flowsheet -- Operational Implications of Dense Medium Cyclone Multiphase Flow Modeling -- CFD Modeling of Dense Medium Cyclone -- Comparison of Two Approaches on the Simulation of Density and Size Circuits -- SECTION 15. Waste Processing and Utilization -- Alternative Fuels Prepared from Coal Mud -- Evaluation of a Novel Fine Coal Dry Cleaning Process at Greenfields Coal Company -- A New Plant Design Intended to recover Coal from the Thickener Tailings to Prevent New Waste Dams -- Pipeline Transport and Utilization of Coal Sludge -- The Utilization of Fly Ash from Hungarian Coal-Firing Power Stations -- SECTION 16. Research -- Value of R&D in Coal Preparation Development -- Coal Preparation Research in South Africa -- Coal Preparation Research in the USA -- Studies on Test Transformation of Chinese Coal by Micro-Organisms -- Determination of Cleaning Possibilities of Turkish Asphaltites -- Advances in X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) for Improved Coal Washability Analysis -- The Sedimentation Characteristics of Coal Slime Water and Water Hardness -- Evaluation of a Novel Fine Coal Briquetting Process at GreenFields Coal Company -- The Effect of Wettability of Coal on Its Bulk Density -- The Application of the Coal Grain Analysis Method to Coal Liberation Studies.

Surface Energy of the Coal Particles in a Coal-Water-Chemical System and Their Relation to the Stability of Highly Loaded Coal-Water Slurries.