This model structure is proposed for multicompartment ball mills for the calculation of breakage (r) and discharge rate (d) functions in different segments of the mill using the experimentally measured mill inside size distributions (p 1 and p 2) and calculated mill feed and discharge size distributions (p 3), in addition to segment holdup (s 1, s 2, s 3 and s 4).
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WhatsApp: +86 18838072829Grinding kinetics of − + mm coal in wet ballmilling were investigated using the breakage rate and primary breakage distribution functions. The deceleration effect for the wet grinding of this coal sample was due to the relatively stronger material (quartz), which had a slower breakage rate compared to the weaker material (organic matter).
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WhatsApp: +86 18838072829Prediction of continuous steadystate ball milling using the traditional population balance model requires knowledge of several functions, namely those describing the rate and distribution of breakage products, the mass transfer relationship between the mill holdup and the discharge, the mode of transport within the mill, as well as the ...
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829The breakage distribution function was evaluated from the zeroorder fine particle production plots. The results indicated that, similar to the case in dry batch ball milling, the breakage distribution functions are normalizable (that is, independent of the parent size) and independent of holdup in the mill.
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WhatsApp: +86 18838072829with the mass flow over cell boundaries ( dot{m} ), the specific breakage rate ( S ) of particles with size ( x_{i} ) in size class i, and the breakage distribution function ( b ), where ( b_{ij} ) describes the mass fraction of material that breaks from size class j into size class breakage rate is considered to be dependent on the local stress conditions in each cell, while ...
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WhatsApp: +86 18838072829This paper discusses the breakage function (better called the breakage distribution function) used in the population balance method of analysing size reduction. It is concluded that the breakage distribution function can be considered to result from two different breakage processes; shatter and cleavage. In size reduction equipment in practice ...
WhatsApp: +86 18838072829Research highlights For the first time very large particles in the size range 7 to 40 mm were used in UFLC and batch grinding experiments. A methodology for constructing a single energy based breakage distribution function was proposed. A methodology for combining breakage probability (as a function of energy) with impact spectra to arrive at mill selection function was proposed.
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WhatsApp: +86 18838072829Finding the breakage and selection functions for a continuous mill has usu ally been performed as a two stage process, where the breakage function is found first using batch tests, and the selection function is then found using data from the continuous mill. The reason for this approach is that estimating both functions using data from the ...
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