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Separation simplified

Flottweg Separation Technology’s Terry Ostrom on decanter centrifuge basics, mining applications and developments in design

Terry Ostrom
The classic applications for decanters in the mining industry have been the dewatering of coal slurry and the suspensions of tailings

The classic applications for decanters in the mining industry have been the dewatering of coal slurry and the suspensions of tailings

Over more than eight decades, decanter centrifuges have become important for increasingly complex solid-liquid or solid-solid separation processes. Communication between machine producers and mineral-processing...

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