Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of triboelectric separation of organic polymers and salts, specially organic polymers containing sulfur, such as polyarylene sulfides and a halogenide or a carboxylate of alkaline metals, alkaline earth metals, ammonium or substituted ammonium wherein: a) the mixture to be separated is electrically charged; b) the charged particles are moved by an electric field, preferably perpendicular to the direction of the field, and c) the particles varyingly deviated in the electric field are separated and captured.

Abstract: Brittle material (1) is ground batchwise as a bed of particles by compression between non-yielding hard surfaces at a pressure of at least 50 MPa. In order to reduce the energy requirement and machine expenditure needed for fine, superfine and microfine comminution, the bed of particles is subjected to repeated stressing by pistons (4) in different directions and at least in part successively. The stressing preferably is accomplished by groups of two opposed pistons (4), which are offset at an angle with respect to each other and which are rendered active one after the other. The stressing is repeated in another plane of the grinding chamber. Wet grinding is carried out in a closed grinding chamber from which the liquid expelled from the voids between the particles being ground can drain through at least one aperture of narrow cross section.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method of effecting the separation of paramagnetic particles from non-paramagnetic particles in the fine and finest particle size ranges of approximately below 1 mm suspended in a fluid medium by the passage of the fluid medium through an apparatus having a separation channel suitable for containing a flow of the fluid medium flowing therethrough and which includes at least two exits suitable for separating the paramagnetic particle enriched fluid medium from the paramagnetic particles depleted fluid medium into two product streams, the separation channel defining the direction of the fluid medium flow being at least partially paralleledly oriented with respect to a magnetic induction member such that the magnetic flux exerted upon the paramagnetic particles within the fluid medium flow are repulsed from the induction member and entrained within the fluid medium to countereffect the effect of inertial forces or gravitational forces on the fluid flow, and separated from the non-paramagnetic

Abstract: In jigging for purposes of gravity separation of material to be concentrated the material is sorted into a heavy fraction which is withdrawn through a screen (2) and a light fraction withdrawn above the screen (2), by periodically passing flows from the bottom to the top through the feed material. If the material is predominantly of finer character, there will be a ragging (3) on the screen (2) composed of particles which are larger and usually also specifically heavier than those of the feed material. In this manner, however, the separation of feed material will be unsatisfactory in the fine particle size range having upper particle size limits between 300 .mu.m and 1 mm, particularly so if the particle size ratio of the material is rather broad.

Abstract: A method for the fine grinding of inelastic material, in particular polymers as polytetrafluoroethylene, polyethylene, polypropylene, polyamide, organic chemicals and plastic metals, and of materials which are transferred into a state of inelastic behavior before or during grinding by application of heat and/or application and conversion of mechanical energy into heat is disclosed wherein the material to be ground is first urged by compression loading into recesses which are formed in the working face of grinding tools applying the compression loading or pressed into cavities of a bulk of grinding bodies, e.g. balls, preferably after previously mixing the material to be ground with the grinding bodies, the recesses or cavities having a size in accordance with the fineness to be obtained. During or after this procedure residual material which still connects the so formed sub-particles is destroyed by movement of the sub-particles relative to each other.

Abstract: In order to carry out a fine and very fine comminution of brittle material, a bed of bulk material to be comminuted is first stressed between two practically non-yielding hard surfaces with a compression of at least 500 kg/cm.sup.2 to result in energy sufficiently high not only to cause comminution, but to also cause a distinct agglomeration or briquetting of the particles, whereafter the resulting agglomerates or briquettes are disintegrated by further mechanical stressing in a separate device.