PULSEWAVE technology–A new and innovative processing technology for the minerals industry

摘要

Pulsewave, LLC is a privately held firm involved in proprietary research aimed at mating its recently developed and patented resonance disintegration technology with potential commercial applications in several areas of materials science including the energy and mineral industries. Unlike conventional milling processes that physically“crush”various material, the Pulsewave machine operates on the principle of resonance disintegration that reduces the particle size by the application of the physics of destructive resonance, shock waves and vortex-generated shearing forces that cause material to cleave along the internal planes of their structure that are the most susceptible to separation. This results in materials being fragmented from within rather than being crushed by impact or grinding. Therefore, in addition to efficient particle size reduction down to the micron level, this technology provides for the liberation of discrete particles in complex multi-phase materials as opposed to the simple size reduction that results from conventional milling methods. For example, pyrite can be liberated from coal by the Pulsewave process, hydraulic hose can be delaminated into separate steel wire and rubber fractions,and precious metals can be liberated from their host rock matrix. This process also produces a“cleaner”component particle than conventional milling because of the elimination of the smearing that normally accompanies the physical crushing of a material. This property of the Pulsewave processing technology could have a significant impact in the area of liberating and removing impurities from raw mineral ores. Mica, talc, ore minerals, coal, limestone, oil shale, gypsum and quartz sands are among the mineral commodities Pulsewave has efficiently processed using its resonance disintegration technology.