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    1. A flotation compartment can be defined as the pulp and froth region, where particles can move between these regions or leave the froth region as concentrate. 2. Flotation models can be categorized in various ways, such as empirical vs phenomenological models, or kinetic, probabilistic, population-balance models. 3. Setting clear boundaries between these model classifications is difficult, as some models can fit into multiple categories. Micro-scale models identify sub-processes, while macro-scale models relate overall system response to operating parameters through equations.

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    1. A flotation compartment can be defined as the pulp and froth region, where particles can move between these regions or leave the froth region as concentrate. 2. Flotation models can be categorized in various ways, such as empirical vs phenomenological models, or kinetic, probabilistic, population-balance models. 3. Setting clear boundaries between these model classifications is difficult, as some models can fit into multiple categories. Micro-scale models identify sub-processes, while macro-scale models relate overall system response to operating parameters through equations.

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    1. A flotation compartment can be defined as the pulp and froth region, where particles can move between these regions or leave the froth region as concentrate. 2. Flotation models can be categorized in various ways, such as empirical vs phenomenological models, or kinetic, probabilistic, population-balance models. 3. Setting clear boundaries between these model classifications is difficult, as some models can fit into multiple categories. Micro-scale models identify sub-processes, while macro-scale models relate overall system response to operating parameters through equations.

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    A flotation compartment can be defined as the pulp and froth.

    Irrespective of the
    transportation mechanism for reaching the froth region, particles can return to the pulp region or
    eventually leave the froth region into the concentrate launder if levels of manipulated variables
    allow froth removal.
    Traditionally, evaluation of batch flotation tests is based largely on a rougher recovery
    value achieved at a defined time. Since the cumulative recovery of a component in the
    concentrate is proportional to flotation time, the flotation process can be considered as a time-rate
    recovery process. Therefore, a mathematical flotation model that incorporates both the recovery
    and rate function can completely describe flotation time-recovery profiles.
    Subsequently, a large number of models have been proposed for a better understanding of
    the flotation process. Dowling et al. (1985) reviewed 13 different models (Table 1) of flotation
    process and attempted to differentiate among them based on several sets of data on time-recovery
    profiles of a porphyry copper ore.
    Lynch et al. (1981) defined three categories for these models
    empirical models
    probability models
    kinetic models
    Mehrotra and Padmanabhan (1990) classified mathematical models describing flotation as a rate

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    process into six categories
    kinetic models based on chemical analogy

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    probabilistic and stochastic models
    multiphase models
    mechanistic models
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    kinetic models with distributed rate constant, and
    continuous flotation models
    Other researchers (Polat & Chander, 2000; Casali et al., 2002; Rojas & Cipriano, 2011) divided
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    flotation models into two categories, empirical and phenomenological.
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    Probabilistic
    Phenomenological models Kinetic
    Population-balance types
    It should be noted that setting the clear boundaries in these model classification is often not
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    possible. For example, the population-balance models can be viewed as the separate type of
    kinetic models, where the principles based on the probability of certain flotation sub processes
    occurrence are often used. Polat and Chander (2000) state that the micro- and macro-scale
    models are often used for flotation process description. In the micro-scale models, the sub-
    processes of the flotation system are identified and used to determine the cause and effect
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    relationships between the system variables. In macro-scale modelling, the overall response of the
    flotation system is related to various operating parameters through a set of mathematical
    equations or rules and expressions of soft computing.
    Beside the basic classification, Hodouin (2011) states that flotation models differ according
    to whether they are:
    Steady-state or Dynamic;
    Deterministic or Stochastic;
    Causal (input-output model) or non-causal (a set of relationships linking process
    variables, such as weight conservation constraints);
    Linear or non-linear;
    Based on mathematical equations or fuzzy rules.
    Since the many disturbance variables exist in flotation system, it is not possible to create a model
    from a completely theoretical analysis, and even if it were possible, the model would be very

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