AMIT 135: Lesson 7 Ball Mills & Circuits – Mining Mill ...

Number, size and mass of each ball size depends on mill load and whether or not the media is being added as the initial charge. For the initial chargin of a mill, Coghill and DeVaney (1937) defined the ball size as a function of the top size of the feed, i.e., dâ†"V = …

Modelling SAG milling power and specific energy ...

For a given mill to have a combination of feed size, ball load, mill speed and % solids will represent the total load. In fact the later can be modelled as a function of the others. Additionally, as has been shown by Powell et al. (2001), ball loads high enough (over 12% as in the cases studied in this work) contribute to a significant portion ...

Ball Mill Design/Power Calculation

Ball Mill Power Calculation Example. A wet grinding ball mill in closed circuit is to be fed 100 TPH of a material with a work index of 15 and a size distribution of 80% passing ¼ inch (6350 ...

ball mill sizing in a steel plant

Ball Mill Design/Power Calculation. Jun 19, 2015 The basic parameters used in ball mill design (power calculations), rod mill or any tumbling mill sizing are; material to be ground, characteristics, Bond Work Index, bulk density, specific density, desired mill tonnage capacity DTPH, operating % solids or pulp density, feed size as F80 and maximum 'chunk size', product size as P80 and ...

formula for ore ball mill

1 calculation of ball mill capacity. the production capacity of the ball mill is determined by the amount of material required to be ground, and it must have a certain margin when designing and selecting. there are many factors affecting the production capacity of the ball mill, in addition to the nature of the material (grain size, hardness, density, temperature and humidity), the degree of.

Classifying and Ball Mill Production Line - ALPA Powder ...

Special design to ball mill which will be selected on the basis of hardness, grindability index of material to be ground, feed size, particle size and hourly capacity, customized to the liner. Selection of grinding ball and rod can improve grinding efficiency farthest and reduce the energy consumption.

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laboratory work index of the ball mill feed, the standard Bond ball mill was implemented. To estimate/predict the amount of consumed energy, and SAG mill feed hardness, Bond equation or Bond's laboratory work index cannot be used, thus a Starkey mill was used to measure SAG mill power index [5]. To determine efficiency of mills and size

Ball mill - CHAENG

Features. CHAENG energy-efficient ball mill equipment is new equipment to transform the basis of the traditional ball mill after, It changed the original mill structure, it is possible to reduce energy consumption by 30%, capacity increased by 15-20%, it is widely used in cement silicate products, new building materials, refractory materials, fertilizer, metal ore and glass ceramics etc ...

Ball mill media optimization - Metcom Tech

(24.8 lb) of ball mill feed sample from plant survey. Sample is reconstituted with water to be the same percent solids as the plant ball mill discharge. Mill speed: 35.2 rpm (65 percent of critical speed) Length of time of test: 363 seconds Average torque reading: 1,056 in-lbs Mill HP = (1,056 in-lbs / …

Ball charges calculators - thecementgrindingoffice.com

- Ball top size (bond formula): calculation of the top size grinding media (balls or cylpebs):-Modification of the Ball Charge: This calculator analyses the granulometry of the material inside the mill and proposes a modification of the ball charge in order to improve the mill efficiency:

Effect of ball load and size distribution on grinding and ...

An industrial test work was performed to analyse the effect of applying a lower ball load and a finer ball size distribution in the second compartment of a KHD Humboldt Wedag ® ball mill on grinding and classification performance of a hybrid high pressure grinding roll (HPGR)/multi-compartment ball mill cement grinding circuit. Mass balance of the circuit was done by JKSimMet Steady State ...

How Can I calculate new ball size and weight desing for ...

Re: How Can I calculate new ball size and weight desing for ball mill. Dear Khan, According to my point of view:-. 1.Firstly look for the performance of roller press product then go for the mono chamber. 2.Is the roller press with the separator or not? 3.Mono chamber mill totally depend on the performance of the prigrinder.

THE OPTIMAL BALL DIAMETER IN A MILL

Investigations were carried out in a laboratory ball mill having the size of DxL = 160x200 mm with a ribbed inside surface of the drum. The mill ball loading was 40% by volume, the rotation rate was equal to 85% of the critical speed. Balls were made from steel: S4146, extra high quality, having hardness 62 ± 2 HRC according to Rockwell.

AMIT 135: Lesson 6 Grinding Circuit – Mining Mill Operator ...

Higher capacity than A-G mill grinding; Primary, coarse grinding (up to 400 mm feed size) Grinding media is grinding feed plus 4-12% ball charge (ball dia.100- 125 mm) High capacity (short retention time) Less sensitive to feed composition (critical size material) Semi-Autogenous Mill Note the size of the mill: Why does the diameter need to be ...

Bond Index Ball Mill / Rod Mill BT 100 XL - RETSCH

The Bond Index conforming rod charge consists of: 6 rods of 1.25" diameter and 21" length. 2 rods of 1.75" diameter and 21" length. The grinding jar for the Bond Index Rod Mill is 12″ x 24″ in size and has a wave-shaped design. At least 15 to 20 kg sample material is required to simulate a closed grinding circuit in a ball or rod mill.

Seven methods of calculating the ratio of steel ball in ...

Steel ball is the energy carrier and force body in ore grinding. It has significant influence on the production capacity and particle size of qualified products through the change of total energy of grinding media, energy of single grinding media and specific surface area of grinding media in the mill.

capacity calculation of ball mill

how shall i calculate the grinding capacity of wet ball ... The basic parameters used in ball mill design (power calculations), rod mill or any tumbling mill sizing are; material to be ground, characteristics, Bond Work Index, bulk density, specific density, desired mill tonnage capacity DTPH, operating % solids or pulp density, feed size as F80 and maximum 'chunk size', product size as P80 ...

ball mill working principle and calculation in cement

Working Principle of Ball Mill. Jan 22, 2018 Ball mill Feed size: ≤ 25mm Handling capacity: 065615t / h Applications: cement, silicate products, new building materials, refractory materials, fertilizers, black and nonferrous metal Working Principle of Ball mill,Working Principle of Ball mill Ball mill is an efficient tool for grinding various materials into powder It is widely applied in ...

Ball Mill Capacity & Dimensions -2013 - Paul O. Abbe

Capacity (25% of total) Total Volume WET Working Capacity (60% of total) rpm DRY milling 60% of critical Gear & Pinnion Drive used on Larger Mills JH 3-2014 Talk with the Experts [email protected] _____ Since 1911 phone 630.350.3012 fax 630.238.7584 B ... Ball Mill Capacity & Dimensions -2013.indd

Calculate the Reduction Ratio and the Number of Milling ...

For example, if the liberation size of your ore is about 100 microns, and its feed size is 80 cm, then the total reduction is 8000/1. How to use the calculator tool. We can use the app linked above to get the number of milling stages, by inserting the correct …

Ternary diagram of circuit capacity for various feed sizes ...

For the feed size of 90% passing 18.9 mm (Fig. 6a), the maximum capacity was obtained with of a make-up ball size of 50.8 mm. As the feed size is reduced to 13.4 mm, a 62:38 mix of 50.8 mm ...

Optimization of the make-up ball charge in a grinding mill ...

The circuit consists of a 3.35 X 4.88 m ball mill working in a direct closed circuit with a battery of four 0.38 m diameter hydrocyclones. The operating conditions are given in Table 1 (Magne, 1990) and the make-up feed size distribution in Table 2. The experimentally determined ore parameters are given in Table 3 (Magne, 1990 ).

Optimization of the make-up ball charge in a grinding mill

R.R. Klimpel. The theory of the calculation of the size distribution of the equilibrium mixture of balls in a ball mill is developed. The differential equation is solved for wear laws of the form ...

Design, Construction and Performance Analysis of a 5 ...

shaft powers required to drive the mill at the specified capacity, and also to size the mill. After the fabrication of the ball mill, grinding test was conducted with the mill, using limestone as the feed material. This was followed by the particle size analysis of the ground product from the mill in order to determine the performance of the mill.

Ball Mill Parameter Selection & Calculation - Power ...

1 Calculation of ball mill capacity. The production capacity of the ball mill is determined by the amount of material required to be ground, and it must have a certain margin when designing and selecting. There are many factors affecting the production capacity of the ball mill, in addition to the nature of the material (grain size, hardness, density, temperature and humidity), the …

Exploring ball size distribution in coal grinding mills ...

It has been shown that mill capacity is linearly correlated to media surface area, thus using 30 mm balls as top size which leads to a fine ball size distribution in the mill is evidently a better approach than the current approach of using larger ball sizes. However the fact that the coal feed to this plant is known to be contaminated with a ...

Why use Different Size Balls in a Mill

Having selected the best ball size, it will be seen by referring to tables 27 and 28 that the preferable ball size usually gave the best capacity and efficiency. Also, the preferable ball size coincides closely with the best selective grinding, the main …

Correlations for the Grindability of the Ball Mill As a ...

requirement for a given grinding duty, BBMWI, feed size and required product size. It is then possible to determine the size of mill required based on throughput and therefore the motor power. 2.2 Factors Affecting Size of Product from Ball Mill It is important to fix the point where the charge, as it is carried upward, breaks away from the

Orway Mineral Consultants Canada Ltd. Mississauga, ON ...

factors for feed size and pebble ing are applied to the AG/SAG specific energy, as well as specific crush energy adjustment from 1.7 mm to the mill transfer size T 80 using Bond's Law (Starkey & Larbi, 2012). The Bond equation is used to calculate ball mill specific energy from T …

Paper # 25 - Copper Mountain Overview on the Grinding ...

Figure 3 - The 24' x 39.5' ball mill Table 4, 5 and 6 include the technical data for the Copper Mountain ball mills. Table 4 - general ball mill data Specification Data Mill size 7.315 M [24 feet] diameter by 12.039 M [39.5 feet] long Mill type Wet grinding, overflow discharge Mill drive motor size 17,000 HP Mill drive motor type ...

O. I. SKARIN N. O. TIKHONOV CALCULATION OF THE …

feed for the rod mill, i.e. 10000 μm in accordance with Table. The value of P 80 is accepted based on the required grain-size characteristics of the ball mill discharge. Considering the Bond energy law and the correction factors by Rolland, the total specific energy E req required for comminution of mineral from the initial size F 80 (coarse

MINERAL PROCESSING LABORATORY MANUAL

To study the effect of grinding with grinding time in Ball mill. 22-25 9 To study the effect of grinding with frequency (RPM) in Ball mill. 26-28 10 To separate a mixture of two minerals of different densities by gravity concentration using Table, and determine the weight and density of each fraction of the products. 29-31 11

Grinding Archives

Grinding Circuit Control Strategy. Figure 4 is a schematic diagram of a ball mill/cyclone control system. This diagram shows the instrumentation and the calculated variables used in the control strategies. The prior detailed process analysis study produced two major conclusions: Reduce mill feed size Reduce ball charge size The reduction of the ...