An approach to the evaluation of froth flotation reagents based on the use of the SWARA and WS-PLP methods

Abstract

The selection of the most suitable flotation reagents is very important in the froth flotation process because the recovery of valuable minerals largely depends on the reagent regime. On the other hand, the particular characteristics of the ore excavated from different mine sites have their own specificity that should be taken into account in choosing the most appropriate reagents. Therefore, a proposal for forming a framework for selecting the most suitable flotation reagents is discussed in this paper. The usability and efficiency of the proposed approach are considered on the conducted empirical example.

Keywords

• reagents
• froth flotation
• mcdm
• swara
• ws-plp