The high-compression roller mills used in cement plants in the 1980s were similar in principle to the double-roll compactors built in the 1850s and 1950s, although apparently the only compactor used as a high-compression mill at that time was a secondhand unit installed by the Fuller Company in its laboratory as a test unit for […]
Рубрика: The History of Grinding
TUMBLING MILLS, PATENTS, AND LAWSUITS
In the mid-1890s, lawyers became interested in tumbling mills. In 1891, a patent specification was lodged with the Imperial Patent Office of the German Reich (Scheibe 1993) in which priority was claimed for the use of solid metal sections rather than screens on the cylindrical part of the mill. The purpose of the invention was […]
BALL MILLS WITH FIXED SHELLS AND HIGH-SPEED STIRRERS
Vertical Peg Mills After World War II, Netzsch-Feinmahltechnik GmbH, which had been established in Bavaria, Germany, in 1879 by two brothers to design and build machinery for the region’s ceramic industry, took advantage of the rapid postwar recovery to diversify its product range and built processing machines such as filters, mills, and pumps. Its engineers […]
NITROGLYCERIN: THE FIRST HIGH-ENERGY EXPLOSIVE
Nitroglycerin, an oily fluid produced by reacting glycerin with nitric or sulfuric acid, was discovered by Ascanio Sobrero, a professor at the University of Turin in Italy, in 1847. Sobrero found “…its properties so unpredictable and frightening that he warned against its use” (DuPont 1980). Other discoveries that were important in formulating high — energy […]
The Science and the Scientists
THE ROLE OF SCIENCE Scientists and inventors have long worked to develop and improve size-reduction processes and machines to solve the engineering challenges associated with grinding. Size reduction-used in every mineral-processing operation—has been a continuing field for scientific inquiry and this has contributed to more efficient size-reduction processes in a number of areas: ■ The […]
Manual Crushing
The second stage of size reduction in mining was manual crushing of mined rocks to sizes suitable for direct use or further breakage (see Figure 3.16). Manual crushing was widely used until the end of the 19th century and is still used in many regions of the world. By 1900, the nomenclature for hand crushing […]
Impact Crushers
In these types of crushers, high-velocity impacts are used to break rocks. They work either by hitting rocks with a high-speed hammer (hammer mills) or throwing rocks against each other or against a steel plate (Barmac crusher). Breakage by impact was the FIGURE 5.17 Material flows through the crushing chamber of a cone crusher (SME-AIME […]
OTHER APPLICATIONS OF MULTIPLE-ROLLER MILLS
The different types of roll mills that have been used for pastes include three-, and even five-roller mills. During the latter part of the 19th century, double-roll mills were adapted for use in the grain, ink, paint, and rubber industries, and they are still used for these purposes. Each application has specific objectives; for example, […]
Ball Loadings
Balls used in the first compartment are larger than those in the second because much larger particles must be broken. Sizing distributions vary according to clinker characteristics and whether the mill is in open or closed circuit. Some clinkers contain small, hard nodules about 10-15 mm in size that grind slowly and may enter the […]
Horizontal Disk Mills
The improvement in grinding efficiency in a conventional stirred mill, as the media became smaller, led to sand with a particle size of 0.5-0.9 mm being used as the media and the shaft speed increasing from 1,700 to 2,200 rpm. This highlighted the importance of stirrer design to ensure that there was a uniform energy […]