Cemented paste backfill for mineral tailings management: Review and future perspectives

C Qi, A Fourie - Minerals Engineering, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Environmental issues associated with tailings management have made it the most daunting
challenge faced by the mining industry. To dispose mineral tailings in a technical …

Optimization of flocculation and settling parameters of tailings slurry by response surface methodology

A Wu, Z Ruan, R Bürger, S Yin, J Wang, Y Wang - Minerals Engineering, 2020‏ - Elsevier
High-efficiency flocculation and settling is required for solid–liquid separation in cemented
paste backfill, which is one of the best approaches for tailings management and green …

Removal of colloidal impurities by thermal softening-coagulation-flocculation-sedimentation in steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) produced water: performance …

J Li, ZT How, C Benally, Y Sun, H Zeng… - Separation and …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Effective removal of colloidal impurities from steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD)
produced water is essential for enhancing water recycling in industry. Response surface …

[HTML][HTML] Intermolecular and surface interactions in engineering processes

J Zhang, H Zeng - Engineering, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Interactions involving chemical reagents, solid particles, gas bubbles, liquid droplets, and
solid surfaces in complex fluids play a vital role in many engineering processes, such as …

Enhancing the dewatering of oil sands mature fine tailings by coagulation-flocculation and pressure filtration with tannic acid-mediated polymeric complex network

D Wang, D Wang, K Wang, A Yeung, Q Liu - Separation and Purification …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
This study presents a new method to improve the dewatering efficiency of oil sands mature
fine tailings (MFT) by pressure filtration using a tannic acid-mediated polymeric complex …

Investigation on the effect of metal cation radius on montmorillonite hydration: Combining experiments with molecular dynamics simulation

M Liu, H Guo, J Luo, X Gui, Y **ng, Y Cao - Separation and Purification …, 2025‏ - Elsevier
Colloidal suspension stability is vitally important in industries, including wastewater
treatment and mineral purification, and is greatly affected by electrostatic interaction and …

Constitutive modelling of cemented paste backfill: A data-mining approach

C Qi, Q Chen, A Fourie, X Tang, Q Zhang… - … and Building Materials, 2019‏ - Elsevier
The environmental risks posed by mine tailings suggest the necessity of recycling tailings as
cemented paste backfill (CPB) and constitutive modelling is an important step to understand …