MEI’s 4th International Flotation Conference (Flotation 09) is sponsored by SNF Flomin, FLSmidth Minerals & JKTech and features 2 discrete symposia:

November 9-10: Flotation Fundamentals: Physics and Chemistry

Although now over a hundred years old, the fundamental aspects of flotation are still being intensively researched, and new machines developed. This two day symposium will focus on:

• Fundamental reagent and flotation chemistry
• Bubbles, froths, bubble-particle interactions
• Flotation cell hydrodynamics, kinetics and scale-up

November 11-12: Flotation Applications and Plant Practice

This two day symposium focuses on the application of flotation, and will include sessions on:

• Plant Operations, particularly related to new technology, and process mineralogy problems
• Flotation Circuits, and their modelling, simulation, control and optimisation
• Flotation machine developments
• Metallic, non-metallic and coal flotation
• Environmental considerations

Previous Conferences

Congratulations on Flotation 07. It was an excellent meeting.
Prof. Graeme Jameson, University of Newcastle, Australia

Read the conference reports from Flotation 2000, Flotation 03 and Flotation 07, and see the technical programmes and view the delegate lists too.

• Flotation 07 report
• Flotation 07 programme
• Flotation 07 delegate list
• Flotation 03 report
• Flotation 03 programme
• Flotation 03 delegate list
• Flotation 2000 report

This conference [Flotation 07] will go down in the history of flotation as a point of reference when flotation turned a new page and moved on to its next level of knowledge and best practice.
Dr. Norman Lotter, Xstrata Process Technology, Canada

"Presenting my flotation simulation program (SUPASIM) at Flotation 03 initiated a lot of interest. Up to that point all my clients were within South Africa. As a result of my presentation, four plant analysis projects were obtained with clients outside of South Africa. This just shows the value of your conferences."
Martyn Hay, Eurus Mineral Consultants, South Africa

Organizers

The conference is organized by Minerals Engineering International (MEI) in consultation with Dr. D. Bradshaw and Professor Jean-Paul ('J-P') Franzidis.

Dee Bradshaw Dee Bradshaw has been involved in Flotation Research at the University of Cape Town and in particular the chemical aspects of flotation for more than 20 years. She has been instrumental in starting the UCT Depressant Research Facility, (1999) and the Machine Vision research Programme (1998) and more recently has spearheaded an imitative into Process Mineralogy. She has worked closely with industrial partners and has published widely, and especially in Minerals Engineering and has been a strong supported of MEI conferences.

Dee Bradshaw

J-P Franzidis Professor J-P Franzidis lectured in the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Cape Town (UCT) between 1983 and 1996, since when he has been at the Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre (JKMRC) at the University of Queensland. Between 1996 and 2003 he ran the Centre’s largest research project, the AMIRA P9 project, which is aimed at understanding and modelling the various processes occurring in mineral processing operations. He is currently Senior Manager, Academic Linkages and Training, at the JKMRC, responsible for creating and maintaining research partnerships with university and other groups working in similar areas of research. He continues to be involved in flotation research, in collaboration with the flotation research groups at UCT and McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

J-P Franzidis