Copyright © 2005 by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration.All rights reserved. Electronic edition published 2009. During our professional careers, we placed our principal emphasis on understanding the role and use of energy in size reduction, particularly in the areas of crushing and grinding minerals, the use of simulation for crushing and grinding circuits […]
Рубрика: The History of Grinding
Eli Whitney Blake
Eli Whitney Blake was a member of a leading family of industrialists in New Haven, Connecticut, which had a tradition of invention and entrepreneurship. The family’s main business was the manufacture of arms, but family members participated in civic affairs and assisted in planning the development and servicing of the city. Genetics may have been […]
THE ADVENT OF STEAM POWER
Every revolution requires a catalyst, and it was the need to pump water from mines that sparked the revolution of steam power. By 1650, coal and tin mining were important industries in England, and water had become a serious problem in many mines that had been worked for centuries, particularly the deep tin mines in […]
EDGE ROLLER MILLS
In the edge mill, which had been developed in China in about 200 ad, a stone or concrete disk rotated on a stone base. The ancient edge mill is still used in many communities: In 1975 people in Antakya dried and ground their wheat in September for winter. This was done in meydans (village squares). […]
TUMBLING MILLS IN THE 19TH CENTURY
Although ball mills were tested in the 1860s (Del Mar 1917), the main progress in fine grinding during 1870-1900 was in Germany. The German mineral industry had started to decline after hundreds of years of world leadership, but the cement industry was growing and with it the demand for fine grinding of clinker. The growth […]
TUMBLING MILLS: EVOLUTION OF DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE
Tumbling mills are basically described by the type of grinding media used, whether they grind the feed wet or dry, by the type of discharge arrangement, and the shape of the cylindrical part of the mill. All tumbling mills have common features: ■ Drives ■ Support bearings in which they rotate ■ Cylinders ■ Feed […]
Very Small Hydrocyclones
In the early 1950s, cyclones were being used in the kaolin industry to separate the finest kaolin particles into products that could be sold at a premium. Their success gave a boost to cyclone technology and led to the design of small cyclones that could efficiently extract the very fine particles from the feed. This […]
Size Reduction in the 21st Century
The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future. —Attributed to Mark Twain NEW SCENARIOS FOR SIZE REDUCTION For more than 10,000 years, size reduction has been the unending effort to produce ever — larger volumes of flour for consumption, rocks and pebbles for building, and fine mineral particles for producing […]
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Our colleagues—some of whom we have known for many years and some we have come to know recently through e-mail—have responded most generously to our requests for information and comments. We are grateful for all the assistance we received. We would like to extend our particular thanks to those colleagues who wrote or contributed to […]
Hans Rumpf
Because the breakage environment is so different between laboratory and plant, size reduction is not a subject that readily lends itself to the classic technique of conducting basic research and then transferring the results to large-scale operations. But Professor Dr.-Ing Hans Rumpf showed that the links between empirical and fundamental knowledge could be understood through […]