Template:Model theory (Text, Whiten-Beta Efficiency Curve)

$E_{oai}=C\left[{\dfrac {\left(1+\beta \beta ^{*}{\dfrac {{\bar {d}}_{i}}{d_{50c}}}\right)(\exp(\alpha )-1)}{\exp \left(\alpha \beta ^{*}{\dfrac {{\bar {d}}_{i}}{d_{50c}}}\right)+\exp(\alpha )-2}}\right]$

where:

• $i$ is the index of the size interval, $i=\{1,2,\dots ,n\}$, $n$ is the number of size intervals
• $E_{oai}$ is the fraction of particles of size interval $i$ in the feed reporting to the overflow stream (frac), $0\leq E_{oai}\leq 1$
• ${\bar {d}}_{i}$ is the geometric mean size of particles in size interval $i$ (mm)
• $d_{50c}$ is the corrected size at which 50% of the particle mass reports to underflow and 50% to overflow (mm)
• $C$ is the fraction of feed liquids split to overflow (frac)
• $\alpha$ is a parameter representing the sharpness of separation
• $\beta$ is a term introduced to accommodate the so-called fish-hook effect, and controls the initial rise in the efficiency curve at finer sizes
• $\beta ^{*}$ is computed to ensure the Whiten-Beta function preserves the definition of $d_{50c}$ in the presence of the fish-hook, i.e. $E=0.5C$ at $d_{50c}$