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Zircon Sand Electrostatic Separation (2D)

2D roll-type electrostatic separator: corona-charged mineral grains ride a rotating high-voltage roll, conductive zircon/rutile/ilmenite discharge almost instantly while insulating quartz stays pinned by a real RC-style charge-decay model, splitting the feed into conductor, middling and non-conductor bins.

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This 2D companion drives a real roll-type electrostatic separator model: an RC-style exponential charge-decay law with a conductivity-dependent time constant τ, and a force balance between electrostatic image adhesion and the combined centrifugal/gravity load on a rotating grounded roll. Conductive zircon, rutile and ilmenite grains discharge in milliseconds and fly off early into the conductor bin; insulating quartz grains stay pinned and ride the roll around before dropping into the non-conductor bin — the actual mechanism industrial mineral-sand plants use to concentrate heavy minerals, not a decorative falling-sand animation.

⚙ Under the hood

2D roll-type electrostatic separator with RC-style conductivity-dependent charge decay and a real electrostatic-adhesion-vs-centrifugal/gravity force balance driving genuine conductor / middling / non-conductor separation.

electrostatic separationmineral processingzirconcorona chargingcharge decaycoulomb force

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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