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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The ball mill load control system: The main control scheme is the ball mill load controller. Any additional capacity of the ball mill depending on the grind settings is sensed by the ball mill load controller and the feed rate is increased (if desired to bring the ball mill its capacity).
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The speed of mills depends upon their diameter; a ballmill of 3 feet revolves 35 times a minute, and one of 5 or 6 feet, 29 or 27 times. Tubemills run at a revolution or two faster (see Fig. 117). Some ores require much finer grinding than others to liberate the minerals, and this increases the milling cost. Ball Mill Product Classifying
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Ball Mill Circuit Classification System Efficiency As described above, "fines" may be defined as any material smaller than a specified product size, and "coarse" as any material that is larger. The target 80 percent passing size of the grinding circuit product is a convenient reference point, as it is often used to express the grind size objective.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377A ball mill consists of a hollow cylindrical shell rotating about its axis. The axis of the shell may be either horizontal or at a small angle to the horizontal. It is partially filled with balls. The grinding media are the balls, which may be made of steel ( chrome steel ), stainless steel, ceramic, or rubber.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Ball mill feed and product particle size distribution for survey 1, 2 and 3 Figure 8 to Figure 11 and Table 11 to Table 13 present the results for the size distributions and some key performance ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Cerro Verde actual data shows that the HPGR circuit energy consumption was 3 kWh/t less than the SAG/Ball mill circuit that was considered in the trade off studies. The initial trade off studies were expecting to have kWH/t of less energy consumption. (unknown) 8 years ago.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Fig. 2 b shows a large gyratory crusher processing run of mine ore to 100150 mm followed by two stages of cone crushing to generate a P80 of 612 mm which could be fed into a large ball mill operating in closed circuit with hydrocyclones. By using multiple process lines, these circuits could process up to 100,000 tonnes of ore per day.
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377In order to maintain throughput, a VTM1250 was installed in semiparallel with the existing ball mill circuit. The VTM1250 accepted undersize from a new screen installed on a portion of the ball ...
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377In this example the ball mill circuit classification system efficiency is per cent at 75 μs. This means that per cent of the particles in the mill are 'coarse' and that per cent of the mill power is being used 'effectively'. Conversely,, or per cent of the mill contents are 'fine' and are being ...
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The results showed that the HPGRball mill circuit achieved a 21% reduction in energy consumption over the existing SAGball mill circuit at the same P80 grind size of 160 mircons (μm). At a grind of 80% passing 75 μm, the HPGRstirred mill circuit showed a 34% reduction in energy compared to the base case.
WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The comparison with a conventional grinding circuit with SAGs and ball mills returns a 21 % lower energy demand and annual operating cost savings of almost 15 mill. US [5]. The applications for hard rock comprise besides copper ore, gold ore, ore in the platinum group metals (PGM), molybdenum ore as well as zinc/lead ore. A large share of the ...
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377The mill was still producing scats, though less than at 78% of critical speed. The original milling circuit design for the Kroondal platinum concentrator was based on the following: > Primary milling discharge of 30% passing 75 μ m. > Secondary milling discharge of 6772% μ m, with natural fines grits.
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WhatsApp: +86 18203695377Most modern grinding circuits consist of a primary SAG mill and secondary ball mill. Bond's Bond's method is widely used for determining the specific energy ( Ecs) for crushers, rod mil ls and ...
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