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EXPERIMENT NO. 03

BALL MILL GRINDING

Ball Mill Grinding

Chemical Engineering Department

Ball Mill Grinding

Chemical Engineering Department

EXPERIMENT NO. 03

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BALL MILL GRINDING

AIM :1. To determine the energy required to grind sample of coal/sand/gravel & calculate Rittingers constant. 2. To determine critical speed of ball mill. APPARATUS :Tubular ball mill with baffles & balls. The mill is placed on rollers. Balance, weight box, sieves, etc. MATERIALS :Coal/sand/gravel sample. THEORY :Bonds law,
P W i = T 10 1 Dsb (1) Dsa 1

Where, P=Power in KW T=Tones of feed in one hour of grinding time(Feed rate in tons/hour) Dsa & Dsb= Diameters of sieves through which 80% of the feed & product pass respectively in mm. Wi=Work index in KWh/tones {or KW/(tons/hr)} The work index for the Coal/sand/gravel can be found from the literature & using Bonds law.(Eq. 1) we can find out power required for grinding. The equation for Rittingers law is as follows :
P 1 1 = KR .(2) T Dsa Dsb

P = Energy required found from eq. (1) T

Dsa & Dsb = volume surface mean diameter obtain from graph of 1/Dp v/s . Thus Rittingers constatnt KR can be found using eq. (2).

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PROCEDURE:1. Measure all the dimensions of the mill i.e. dia., length, speed, ball dia. etc. 2. Take 200 gm of uniformly mixed feed. Carry out screen analysis taking 100 gm of feed. 3. Now feed 200 gm of sample in the mill charged with ball. 4. Grind the sample for 10 minutes. 5. Take out the material & carry out the screen analysis with 100 gm of uniformly mixed product. 6. Note the observation in the table. RESULT:1. 2. 3. The critical speed of ball mill=___________rpm Energy required to grind the sample is =___________KWH/Ton Rittingers constant KR is=_______________

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OBSERVATIONS :1. No. of balls= _______ 2. Speed of ball mill= ________ rpm. 3. Mill inside diameter= ________ cm. 4. Diameter of balls= ________ cm. 5. Feed material= ________kg 6. Mass of feed= ________ gm. 7. Sample taken for analysis of feed & product = _________ gm 8. Working index Wi=_________KWh/T. Data : Working index Wi= 16 KWh/T for gravel Working index Wi= 6.3 KWh/T for clay Working index Wi= 13 KWh/T for Coal Working index Wi= 12.74 KWh/T for Limestone Feed Sample Analysis:Sr. No. Mesh No. Clear Opening in mm Dpi Differenti al mass retained Cumulative mass retained Differenti al mass fractions Xi Cumulative mass fraction

xi Dpi

1/Dp cm-1

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 = = = = =

xi Dpi

Dpi = Arithmetic Average of upper and lower screen size for given fraction. Product Analysis:Sr. No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 = = = = Mesh No. Clear Opening in cm Dpi Differentia l mass retained Cumulative mass retained Differential mass fractions Xi Cumulative mass fractions

xi Dpi

1/Dpi cm-1

xi = Dpi

GRAPH :- Draw the graph of Xi vs 1/Dpi and find area under the curve. 5
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CALCULATION:1. Volume Surface mean Diameter of feed and product can be calculated from the equation : 1 Dsa , b = n xi Dpi i =1 Xi = Differential mass fraction retained on screen. Dpi = Arithmetic Average of upper and lower screen size for given fraction.

D
i= 1

xi
pi

= Area under the curve of Graph Xi vs 1/Dpi or summation shown tables for feed and product

in above 2. Critical speed ( c) of ball mill:

c =
1 2 g R r

Where, R = Radius of Ballmill in Cm g = Gravitational Acceleration=981 cm/s2 r = Radius of Ball c in RPS convert it into RPM 3. Calculation of power consumption :
P W i = T 10 1 Dsb (1) Dsa 1

Where, Wi = work index Dsa= Diameter of feed Dsb= Diameter of Product If we measure the power consumption using Energy meter then we can calculate work index of the given material. 4. Calculate Rittingers constant for given material using equation : Use the value of Power consumption calculated above or the value measured by Energy meter.
P 1 1 = KR .(2) T Dsa Dsb

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