In the mining industry, effective separating the mineral solids from water or aqueous solutions is critical. If there is no effective flocculation in sedimentation or centrifugation process, the heavier inorganic solids may fall to the bottom of the settler and the smaller particles will be suspended in the supernatant, such as the standing solution. Then the efficiency of filtration and dehydration is also significantly decreased by the existed of small amounts of particles in the supernatant. While these small particles can be quickly settled down by adding Polyacrylamide (PAM) to this aqueous dispersion, in this process the individual particles in the suspension tend to aggregate to form heavy aggregates easily and settle very quickly and the upper dispersion becomes a clear liquid. Coal Washing The active groups on the polyacrylamide molecular chains of coal washing adsorb on the surface of the fine particles in the slime water, which connect the particles and make the fine pa...