Design of Air Table Equipment for the Separation of Metal Minerals by Gravity Concentration with Wind Media

Taufik Arief; Hasjim Machmud; Eva Oktinasari

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Design of Air Table Equipment for the Separation of Metal Minerals by Gravity Concentration with Wind Media

Taufik Arief, Hasjim Machmud, Eva Oktinasari

Published in International Journal of Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy (Volume 7, Issue 2)

Received: 23 April 2022 Accepted: 14 May 2022 Published: 24 May 2022

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This research is an air table device design and laboratory scale experimentation. Air table is a tool to separate valuable minerals from mineral impurities of tin ore based on differences in specific gravity, shape and size using air/wind media. The design of the tool starts from the design and manufacture of the table as well as the manufacture of other main components, including; feed hopper, ventilation and tertoron cloth. Then the next stage is the calculation and selection of a table driving motor in the form of an electric motor with a pulley system and the last is the calculation and selection of a blower machine as a machine that functions to blow pressure into the table. The installation of the air table was carried out at the Materials Processing Laboratory, Faculty of Engineering, Sriwijaya University. To determine the success rate of designing and evaluating the performance of the air table, experiments were carried out using several combinations of variables, including table slope, feed weight (grams), and processing time (minutes).). The experimental process of the tool was tested using tin ore samples from the remaining tin ore washing (SHP) from the Toboali Washing Plant, PT Timah, Tbk. The experimental results show that the performance of the tool shows good but not optimal performance where the lowest concentrate gain is achieved at 50.20% and the highest is 79.14% at a deck slope of 5.8°, feed weight is 600 grams and processing time is 15 minutes. The results of the evaluation show that the air table device functions relatively well, but needs to be improved and adjusted for more varied variables as well as representative samples and quantities of tin ore, so as to produce maximum concentrate and grade.

Published in	International Journal of Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy (Volume 7, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijmpem.20220702.12
Page(s)	43-49
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Air Table, Deck, Head Motion, Blower Machine

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Taufik Arief, Hasjim Machmud, Eva Oktinasari. Design of Air Table Equipment for the Separation of Metal Minerals by Gravity Concentration with Wind Media. Int J Miner Process Extr Metall. 2022;7(2):43-49. doi: 10.11648/j.ijmpem.20220702.12

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Taufik Arief

Department of Mining Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Sriwijaya University, Palembang, Indonesia
Hasjim Machmud

Department of Mining Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Sriwijaya University, Palembang, Indonesia
Eva Oktinasari

Department of Mining Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Sriwijaya University, Palembang, Indonesia

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Taufik Arief; Hasjim Machmud; Eva Oktinasari. Design of Air Table Equipment for the Separation of Metal Minerals by Gravity Concentration with Wind Media. Int. J. Miner. Process. Extr. Metall. 2022, 7(2), 43-49. doi: 10.11648/j.ijmpem.20220702.12

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Taufik Arief, Hasjim Machmud, Eva Oktinasari. Design of Air Table Equipment for the Separation of Metal Minerals by Gravity Concentration with Wind Media. Int J Miner Process Extr Metall. 2022;7(2):43-49. doi: 10.11648/j.ijmpem.20220702.12

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