Grinding & Classification Circuits

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How to design a Ball Mill (4 replies)

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Partha@Mech
4 years ago
Partha@Mech 4 years ago

E= 10 Wi (1/√P80- 1/√F80)

E= Specific Energy, Wi= Work Index,P80= Output,F80= Feed

After this we need to multiply certain factors such wet/dry Factor, Separation Factor, Dia. factor,  Open/Closed Circuit Factor etc..

E= 10 Wi (1/√P80- 1/√F80 * C1*C2*C3*C4*C5*C6

After This we multiply throughput Volume (Q)

Specific Power (P)= QE which gives Total Power consumption (KW).

We assume Critical Speed as 70% of Nominal RPM with 30% of Grinding Charge.

Question1:- How do we determine Nominal RPM optimum for Grinding?

Question2:- How do we determine Dia. Of Mill?

Question3:- How do we determine Length. Of Mill?

Question4:- How do we determine L/D ratio for wet closed Mill with specific throughput?

Question5:- How do we determine the F80 for Grinding Mill so that the P80/P68 is in 106/75 microns?

Question6:- Does Length & Diameter determine Critical Speed/ Nominal RPM?

Alex Doll
4 years ago
Alex Doll 4 years ago

Before replying, a warning is in order:  get an experienced professional opinion before you go buying a mill.  There are a lot of ways that a design like this can go wrong if you don't know what you are doing.  For example, work index is not fixed and will vary depending on the closing mesh that you ran the experiment at.  You also need a rod mill work index to design a ball mill operating on a coarse feed, above about 4 mm.

Q1:  You design for a typical percentage of critical speed, usually 75% of critical. Then you iterate the mill diameter using a Morrell C-model or Nordberg equation to get the RPM that corresponds to 75% for that mill diameter.

Q2:  You first work out the specific energy consumption using the Bond equation you showed, then multiply that by the desired throughput to choose the mill motor.  Then you use a Morrell C-model or Nordberg equation to iterate mill geometries to fit the motor.

Q3:  As per Q2.

Q4:  There are only rules of thumb for this: if you are doing coarse grinding, then you want a shorter mill; if you are doing fine grinding, then you want a longer mill.  Eg. 200 µm product would be D:L of 1:1.5; 75 µm product would be a range between 1:1.8 and 1:2.

Q5:  Ball mill performance suffers with coarse feed, so keep the F80 below 5 mm.  Design your upstream crushers/rod mills to achieve this, if possible.  The coarsest you can run a ball mill on typical ore is about 10 mm before the performance becomes unacceptable.

Q6:  Only diameter.  See https://www.sagmilling.com/tools_millspeed

Mike
4 years ago
Mike 4 years ago

Note: "We assume Critical Speed as 70% of Nominal RPM" is backwards.  Critical speed is the rpm that cascading stops and the charge is pinned.  So it should read "We assume Nominal RPM as 70% of Critical Speed".  Except you would probably want to run at 75% Critical Speed as that would give a slightly smaller mill.

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Rahul bhoraniya
4 years ago
Rahul bhoraniya 4 years ago

Can anyone help to design batch type ball mill? which are running in ceramic industries? i want to know calculation of  motor power and size.

As example glaze material to be grind in wet process is 3 ton than what should be steps to find size and motor?

Awaiting for real answers based on research.

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David
4 years ago
David 4 years ago

"Awaiting for real answers based on research"

Really?

And you want this.... for free?

You should contact info@bhagawati.com

They are expert at this and certainly should be able to answer this very simple question.

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