Apparatus and method for analysing and processing granular material
AssigneeSorterra Global Pty Ltd
InventorsJan Verboomen, Steven Verboomen
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Abstract
A method of analysing granular material in a slurry, the method comprising: compacting the granular material in the slurry to form one or more pucks; irradiating said pucks with X-Ray radiation and detecting X-ray energy transmitted through said one or more irradiated pucks; irradiating a reference material with X-Ray radiation, said reference material having known material characteristics and detecting X-ray energy transmitted through said reference material; comparing X-ray energy transmission through said one or more pucks with the reference material to compute, using a processing unit, one or more particle characteristics of the granular material in the one or more pucks.
Claims21
A method of analysing granular material in a slurry, the method comprising:
- compacting the granular material in the slurry to form one or more pucks;
- irradiating a section of said pucks with X-Ray radiation and detecting X-ray energy transmission through said one or more irradiated pucks;
- irradiating a section of reference material with X-Ray radiation, said reference material having known material characteristics and detecting X-ray energy transmitted through said reference material;
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- comparing X ray energy transmission through said one or more pucks with the reference material to compute, using a processing unit, one or more particle characteristics of the granular material in the one or more pucks.
Apparatus for analysing granular material in a slurry, the apparatus comprising:
- a collection chamber for receiving one or more slurry streams;
- a filtering assembly for filtering said one or more slurry streams to separate granular material from the slurry stream;
- one or more pressing members for compressing the granular material to form one or more pucks;
- radiation source for irradiating said pucks with X-Ray radiation;
- one or more detectors for detecting X-ray energy transmitted through said one or more irradiated pucks;
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- a processing unit for processing measurement signals corresponding to X-ray energy transmitted through said one or more pucks by comparing said signals to measurement signals corresponding to X-ray energy transmitted through a reference material and thereby computing one or more particle characteristics of the granular material in the one or more pucks.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.