Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for sorting material on a conveyor of a conveyor system, such as a conveyor system for material including non-ferrous metals. The conveyor system includes a conveyor belt and a separator system. The conveyor belt is adapted to convey the material. The separator system includes a separator below the conveyor belt and is configured to selectively apply a separating force onto the material on the conveyor belt such that at least one piece of the material is lifted off of the conveyor belt. A method of sorting material on a conveyor belt includes receiving the material on the conveyor belt, conveying the material with the conveyor belt, and applying the separating force onto the material with the separator such that at least one piece of the material is lifted off of the conveyor belt.

Abstract: A shale shaker includes a basket having a front, solids discharge end and a rear, feed end spaced apart by opposed first and second sides. The basket includes a lower, first, screen deck and an upper, second, screen deck directly above the first screen deck. The screening surfaces of the screen decks are spaced apart, by a vertical spacing of from 20 mm to 250 mm. There is a cavity above the feed receiving end of the first screen deck, in direct fluid communication with the space between the screening surfaces of the first and second screen decks ( ) that only receives feed that has passed through the upper, second, screen deck. The cavity extends to higher than the extreme end of the screening surface of the second screen deck, at its feed receiving end.

Abstract: A system includes a learning network having a signal processor configured to: receive learned signaling containing information about representative samples of conditions related to operating states of a hydrocyclone and characterized as learned samples of each condition when the learning network is trained, and raw signaling containing information about raw samples containing information about the current operation of the hydrocyclone; and determine corresponding signaling containing information about an operating state of the current operation of the hydrocyclone based upon a comparison of the learned signaling and the raw signaling.

Abstract: A method for modifying a fine particle dispersion liquid with which dispersibility and dispersion stability can be improved includes performing filtration to remove impurities in a dispersion liquid using a dispersion liquid modifying device provided with a removal unit that uses a filtration membrane. The quantity of impurities is reduced from a first region until said quantity reaches a second pH-dependent region. In the second pH-dependent region, the dispersibility of the fine particles in the dispersion liquid is in a range in which the dispersibility depends more on a change in dispersion liquid pH than on a change in the quantity of impurities in the dispersion liquid. With the quantity of impurities reduced to the second pH-dependent region, the dispersibility of the fine particles is controlled by adjusting the pH of the fine particle dispersion liquid.

Abstract: A magnetic separator includes a housing defining a product flow path, a drawer moveable between a first position and a second position, a magnet operatively connected to the drawer, the magnet positioned within the product flow path when in the first position and the magnet withdrawn from the flow path when in the second position, and a stripper plate frame attached to the housing. A stripper plate is fixed to the stripper plate frame that conforms with the magnet and through which the magnet passes as the drawer is moved between the first and second positions. An anti-rotation mechanism includes a slot that engages along a length of a shoulder such that. When the anti-rotation mechanism is positioned having the slot over the shoulder, the magnet is prevented from moving from the axially locked position. The shoulder extends beyond an outer surface of the anti-rotation mechanism.

Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods for providing a screening surface in a vibratory machine are provided. In one example embodiment, a screening system includes a plurality of bucker bar covers. Each bucker bar cover is adapted to fit over one of a plurality of bucker bars. Each bucker bar cover can have one or more recesses. The system further includes a plurality of panel fastening members (e.g., panel fastening straps, panel fastening shrouds, etc.). Each panel fastening member is adapted to extend across the plurality of bucker bar covers in one of the one or more recesses of the bucker bar covers. Each panel fastening member can have a fastening feature. The system can further include a plurality of screen panels. Each screen panel can have a fastening recess having a shape adapted to engage with the fastening feature of one of the panel fastening members.

Abstract: A machine for automatically inspecting a flow (F) of individual objects (2) on a conveying plane (3) includes at least one illumination station (4) and at least one detection station (4?) below which the flow (F) of objects to be inspected passes. The at least one illumination station (4) has means (6) for applying and focusing inspecting beams (R) defining a transverse focused illuminated region (ZEF) The at least one detection station (4?) has a means (9) defining a detection region (ZD) in the form of a transverse strip of size (L) as well as means (9,1) for capturing and transmitting the signal contained in a pixel (10) scanning the detection region (ZD). The focused illuminated region (ZEF) fits along the entire width (L) of the detection region (ZD) within this detection region.

Abstract: A Czochralski-type method for sorting wafers obtained by cutting a single-crystal silicon ingot, the method being implemented when the wafers are in an as-cut state or in a shaped-surface state. The method includes a) measuring the majority free charge carrier concentration in an area of each wafer; calculating the thermal donor concentration in the area of each wafer, on the basis of the majority free charge carrier concentration; calculating the charge carrier lifetime limited by the thermal donors in the area of each wafer, on the basis of the thermal donor concentration; determining a bulk lifetime value for the charge carriers in each wafer on the basis of the lifetime limited by the thermal donors; comparing the bulk lifetime value or a normalised bulk lifetime value with a threshold value; and discarding the wafer when the bulk lifetime value or the normalised bulk lifetime value is lower than the threshold value.

Abstract: A system for sorting waste objects is disclosed. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, the system includes at least one sorting unit, in which the sorting unit is connected to at least one sensor system that identifies the waste objects. The sensor system is arranged to detect one or more waste object characteristics and is also arranged to provide a control system with a signal when a waste object of a desired type is detected. The system also includes at least one sorting conveyor that conveys the waste objects to the sorting unit in which the sorting unit is provided with two or more sorting devices that sort the waste objects. The sorting devices of the present disclosure are arranged to receive at least one signal from the control system in response to a waste object of a desired type being detected by the sensor system.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for sorting a plurality of substrates is disclosed. The apparatus includes a sorting unit capable of supporting a plurality of bins, a rotatable support disposed within the sorting unit, the rotatable support rotatable about a rotational axis, a plurality of grippers coupled to the rotatable support on a common radius relative to the rotational axis, the grippers positioned to travel along a path above the bins as the rotatable support rotates, and an air nozzle configured to reorient a sorted substrate relative to a stacked substrate in a bin of the plurality of bins when released by one of the grippers into the bin.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for separating lignocellulose particle fraction (3) and lignin particle fraction (4), in which crude lignin (1) formed from starting material (6) comprises lignocellulose particles and lignin particles. The method comprises adding stabilizing chemical (11) and/or hydrophobic chemical (12) into the crude lignin (1) in at least one step, and treating the crude lignin by separating the lignin particle fraction (4) and lignocellulose particle fraction (3) from each other in at least one separation step (2,8,9,10). Further, a lignocellulose particle fraction and a lignin particle fraction and their uses.

Abstract: A system is provided for processing a circulating load in comminution circuit of a mineral separation process for separating mineral particles of interest from an ore, featuring: a coarse screen and an enhanced mineral separation circuit (EMSC). The coarse screen may be configured to receive a cyclone underflow having mineral particles of interest and forming part of the circulating load of the comminution circuit, and provide coarse screen feeds for further processing.

Abstract: Hydrocyclones and related apparatus, systems and methods are disclosed for classifying aggregate material. Some embodiments include an inlet head with a spiral inlet having a height and width that vary along the direction of travel of material in the inlet head. Plants incorporating hydrocyclones are disclosed for classifying aggregate material. Some plant embodiments include an overflow container having a weir.

Abstract: A mobile aggregate processing plant for screening aggregate material comprising a mobile chassis, a vibrating screening unit mounted on the mobile chassis and able to provide at least one aggregate discharge stream therethrough, and an underscreen conveyor located wholly or substantially beneath the vibrating screening unit to wholly or substantially receive said at least one aggregate discharge stream, wherein the underscreen conveyor is driveable in an uphill direction so as to be able to discharge the aggregate discharge stream at a height higher than receiving the aggregate discharge stream, relative to the mobile chassis.

Abstract: A fruit sorting table includes: a conveyor for conveying a fruit crop along a conveying plane, between an intake area and a discharge area, a screen extending in the conveying plane between the intake area and the discharge area, the screen having openings for sorted fruit to pass through from the conveying plane to an area for receiving sorted fruit situated under the conveying plane. The sorting table has at least one device for measuring one of a quantity of fruit and a flow rate of fruit passing through the screen over at least one reference section of the screen, the reference section being situated between the fruit intake area and the discharge area, and set apart from the fruit intake area, a device for adjusting the sorting table in response to the measurement device. Application, in particular, to sorting a grape crop.

Abstract: A method for modifying a fine particle dispersion liquid has excellent dispersibility and dispersion stability. In this method for modifying a fine particle dispersion liquid having improved fine particle dispersibility, impurities included in an agglomeration of fine particles contained in the fine particle dispersion liquid are released into the dispersion liquid by applying physical energy to the agglomeration and performing dispersion processing for dispersion into particles that are smaller than the agglomeration of fine particles. The impurities are removed from the dispersion liquid by means of a removal unit provided with a filtration membrane before reagglomeration is caused by the impurities.

Abstract: A sifting device having an upper chamber and a lower chamber. An upper chamber offset opening is disposed on the end wall of the upper chamber and offset from a central axis. A shaft rotates about the central axis of the upper chamber. A blade in the upper chamber and attached with the shaft. The blade is configured to rotate between an open position and a closed position. A cone element is disposed on the blade and concentric with the upper chamber. A lower sifting element is disposed within the lower chamber. The shaft attached with the lower sifting element such that the lower sifting element rotates in the lower chamber when the shaft rotates. The upper chamber offset opening is configured to allow powdered substance to move from the upper chamber to the lower chamber so that the blade and lower sifting element can sift powdered substances.

Abstract: The embodiments herein provide a centrifugal scattering device having a central axle, a sieve positioned below the central axle, a plurality of rotors, each one having a proximal end and distal end where the proximal end of each rotor is attached to the central axle. The device also preferably includes a guide, angled relative to the central axle and attached to the distal end of each rotor so that the guide travels around the central axle and along the sieve when the central axle rotates.

Abstract: A product sorting apparatus includes a pallet station supporting a pallet on which a product is placed and moves up and down between a base position and a raised position, a transfer device transferring the product to a first area that is on a first side of the pallet station, a first cart movable between the first area and a second area that is on a second side of the pallet station, and a second cart movable between the first area and the second area and able to pass through the inside of the first cart. Through the inside of the pallet station set at the base position, the first cart is unable to pass and the second cart is able to pass, and through the inside of the pallet station set at the raised position, both the first and second carts are able to pass.

Abstract: Described herein are microfluidic devices and methods that can separate and concentrate particles in a sample.