Centrifuge dewatering of polymer-amended oil sand tailings
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The main objective of this paper is to understand the process of centrifuge dewatering of polymer-amended mature fine tailings. Laboratory investigations indicated that dewatering improves up to 600 g (because of assemblage formation due to increased particle collisions and polymer adsorption) beyond which dewatering declines (owing to floc breakage due to excess centrifugation and surface saturation). For 10 mg/L polymer, the released water increased to 17%, the entrapped water decreased to 42%, and the sediment solids content increased to 42%. The corresponding values at 20 mg/L were found to be 34%, 18% and 47%, respectively. Likewise, the physicochemical parameters were found to correlate well with tailings dewatering. The decrease in pH, electrical conductivity (EC) and zeta potential (ZP) up to 600 g is due to water dilution, charge neutralisation and shear plane displacement beyond which opposite phenomena occurred. At the optimum and 10 mg/L polymer, the pH value decreased to 7·5, EC decreased to 2615 µs/cm, and ZP decreased to −26 mV. The corresponding values at 20 mg/L were found to be 7·5, 2234 µs/cm and −21 mV, respectively.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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