Ball Mill EDM PDF

Grinding with Ball Mill Systems
EDM
Ball Mill
Ball Mill
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HGRS Tikaria_Mill Workshop SEPT-07
What is a End Discharge Mill (EDM)?
Air outlet
2st Compartment
I t
Intermediate
di t diaphragm
di h (Fine Grinding)
1st Compartment
(Coarse Grinding)
Mill feed arrangement
Mill discharge
Drive
Gearbox with pinions

Air inlet
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EDM
EDM =
E d Discharge
End Di h Mill
Product discharge
at mill end
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Elements of Ball Mill - Overview
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Mill Drive Concepts
Drive Concepts for
Ball mills
Girth gear Drives Girth gear units Central drives
Single pinion concept Single drive with Two-way power splitting

(< 2'500 kW) two pinions reducer
(< 5'000 kW) (< 6'000 kW)
Double-pinion concept Double drive with Planetary gear reducer

(< 5'000 kW) four pinions (< 12'000 kW)
(< 10'000 kW)
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Example Planetary Gear Drive
Planetary gear reducer concept MAAG
 Two gear stages with three planets
 All shafts with friction bearings
Annulus
 Pinions, planets surface-hardened
 Annulus through-hardened Planets
Gear coupling
Drive arrangement Sun pinions

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Gear Box Internals
Parallel shaft gear reducer (two way power branch)
 All gears surface-hardened and

ground
 All shafts with roller bearings
 Key point::
Face load distribution of the
LS-gear stage
Low speed gear

stage
Bearings with excentric sleeves

to optimise the face load distribution
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Potential Technical Problems Drive
Girth gear drives - Fundamental 1. Axial/radial runout

Problems
2. Alignment of the drive trains
5 2 3 3. Uneven power splitting
4. Centre distances variable
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5. F
Face load
l d di
distribution
t ib ti
1 6. Sealing of the girth gear

7. Girth gear is through hardened
only,
l ffatigue
ti strength
t th iis lilimited
it d
4  Dynamic behaviour
 A lot of individual rotating masses
risk of resonance vicinities
5 6 7
 Torsional/structural vibrations
 Pinion shaft bending vibrations
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Gearboxes
Gear reducer
Polysius Combiflex
Planetary Gear
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Potential Damages Drives
Breakage damage (pinions)
 Cause: Inadequate transverse
load distribution, brittle material
Fatigue breakage
I iti l d
Initial damage:
Pitting on the pitch line
Secondary damage:
Tooth breakage
g
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Potential Problems Drive
Single pinion drive (2’300 kW)
 Breakage failure of the pinion in the
gear reducer
 Heavy (active) pitting on the drive
pinion
 Possible Cause: 1
- Inadequate load distribution (1)
- Overload of the tooth flanks (2)
2 1
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Mill Bearing
Advantages slide shoe bearings:
No size and capacity limitation of the
mill
Simple design of wear plates
Far higher limit of gas temperature at

mill inlet (e.g. for drying with heat
generator)
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Feed Arrangements for Ball Mills
(Slurry mill)
Preferred design today
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Feed Arrangement (Example Step Feeder)
Material feed
Ventilation air
 Advantages
 Good mill ventilation
 Easy
y to maintain
 Simple design
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Elements of Ball Mill – Overview (Internals)
External
elements
Mill ffeed
d Mill Mill di
discharge
h Mill
arrangement Mill head Mill shell bearing arrangement drive
Head Grinding Shell Intermediate Retention Discharge

li
liners media
di li
liners di h
diaphragm ring
i di h
diaphragm
Internal
elements
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Overview Internal Elements
A Coarse grinding
compartment
B Intermediate
diaphragm
C Fine grinding
compartment
D Discharge
diaphragm
E Grinding media
F Retention ring
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Liners for Coarse Grinding
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Lifting Height Requirements (1st Chamber)
 This criteria has to be
confirmed case by case h0
through evaluation of the
coarse grinding.
 Rule of thumb: h must be
greater than 50 [mm]
1st chamber lining at end of lifetime

h > 0.5 ho
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Classifying Liner for Fine Grinding (2nd Chamber)
Rotation sense
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Head Liners
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Open Diaphragm (Drying Chamber Diaphragm)
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Intermediate Diaphragm
2nd Compartment
Fine Grinding
Intermediate diaphragm
1st Compartment
Coarse Grinding
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Function of Intermediate Diaphragm
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Intermediate diaphragm
 Slot opening in 1st chamber

 Material flow control system
 Centre screen
 Grates in the second chamber
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Discharge diaphragm
Discharge diaphragm
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Discharge Diaphragm
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Material Quality and Application of Shell Liners
Material Chemical Hardness Remarks

Composition (HRC)
Manganese Recommended for small mills.
Steel 12 – 14% Mn 40 Deformation of liners for large
mills
ill (i
(initial
iti l surface
f h
hardness
d
20 – 25 HRC)
Low chromium Less deformation than

alloy cast 2 – 3% Cr 40 - 42 manganese liners.
liners Suitable
for large and small mills
liners
High
g chromium Most used material. Suitable
alloy cast 12 – 15% Cr 50 - 55 for big and small mills (Notch
impact strength 4 – 10 J/cm2)
liners
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Life Time of Shell Liners
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Grinding Media
Coarse grinding Ø 90 – 50 [mm]
Fine grinding Ø 50 – 12 [mm]

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Grinding in Ball Mill
Fine grinding (2nd chamber)

Cascading of grinding media
A
A
Coarse grinding (1st chamber)

Cataracting of grinding media
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Ball filling degree (f)
98
93
Power [%]
85
Typical range
75
20 25 30 35 40 - 45 f [%]
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Steps of Grinding
Coarse
C Medium
M di Fine
Fi
Grinding Grinding Grinding
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Coarse Grinding: Parameters for Optimising
Power parameters Efficiency parameters

 Filling degree  Ball charge (filling degree &
 Chamber lengthg composition)
p )
 Mill diameter  Liner design
 Liner design and condition  Intermediate diaphragm settings
 Mill speed  Mill ventilation
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Grinding Media
4,4 [t/m3] 4,6 [t/m3] 4,7 [t/m3]
Bulk weight of a grinding media charge in a two chamber mill with

classifiying liner
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Grinding Media (1st Compartment)
1.Compartment
Ø Ball [mm] Weight [ t ] Percent [%]
90 25.0 25.0
80 35 0
35.0 35 0
35.0
70 25.0 25.0
60 15.0 15.0
Total 100.0 100
Average ball weight [g] 1667

Spec. media surface [m2 / t ] 10.2
Holcim Standard for 1st Compartment
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Grinding Media (2nd Compartment)
 Holcim Standard for OPC > 3’200 [cm2/g], closed circuit
system
2.Compartment
Ø Ball [mm] Weight [ t ] Percent [%]
50 20.0 10.0
40 20.0 10.0
30 32.0 16.0
25 32.0 16.0
20 42.0 21.0
17 54.0 27.0
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Total 200.0 100

Average ball weight [g] 41
Spec media surface
Spec. [m2 / t] 32 8
32.8
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Material Quality of Grinding Media
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Specific Wear Rates of Grinding Media
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Mill Efficiency
[%R] [cm2/g]
acc
acc. Chamber 1 Blaine
(coarse grinding) Blaine Value
Chamber 2
(fine grinding)
Sieve Residues
mill length [m] [m]
longitudinal sieving graph

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Lifting Liners Effects
Li
Liner-Lifting
Lifti : l
low hi h
high
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Optimum Material Level 1st Chamber
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Optimum Material level 2nd chamber
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Mill Ventilation
 Main Tasks Mill Ventilation:

 Material transport
 Cooling
 Removal of fines
 Fluidisation of material
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Cooling and Heating Possibilities
Product
Air
Dust ladden air
H2O
Moist additive Hot gases
Hot clinker Cooling air
H 2O
Cooling air Product
Hot gases
H 2O H2O
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Fine Grinding and Mill Cooling
PROBLEM SOLUTION
 Insufficient
su c e t mill coo
cooling
g  Adapted
p mill cooling,
g,
lead to material playing with:
agglomeration on balls  Clinker temperature
and liners  Mill ventilation
il i
 The grinding is not any  Water injection
more done by balls  Use of grinding aid

against material but by (temporary solution
material against material because expensive)
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Water Injection Systems
counter current no water

Product injection
1st 2nd Comp. temp. [°C]
130
counter
120
current
110
Air from
Air from co-current
blower 100
H2O blower H2O
co-current 90
(Double)
Rotary union 80
1st 2nd Comp.
Mill length
H2O 2nd Comp.
H2O 1st Comp.
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Grinding with Ball Mill Systems

Mill feed arrangement

Gearbox with pinions

Girth gear Drives Girth gear units Central drives

Single pinion concept Single drive with Two-way power splitting

Double-pinion concept Double drive with Planetary gear reducer

Drive arrangement Sun pinions

 All gears surface-hardened and

 All shafts with roller bearings

Low speed gear

Bearings with excentric sleeves

Girth gear drives - Fundamental 1. Axial/radial runout

1 6. Sealing of the girth gear

Far higher limit of gas temperature at

Preferred design today

Head Grinding Shell Intermediate Retention Discharge

1st chamber lining at end of lifetime

 Slot opening in 1st chamber

Material Chemical Hardness Remarks

Low chromium Less deformation than

Fine grinding Ø 50 – 12 [mm]

Fine grinding (2nd chamber)

Coarse grinding (1st chamber)

Power parameters Efficiency parameters

4,4 [t/m3] 4,6 [t/m3] 4,7 [t/m3]

Bulk weight of a grinding media charge in a two chamber mill with

Total 100.0 100

Average ball weight [g] 1667

Holcim Standard for 1st Compartment

Total 200.0 100

mill length [m] [m]

longitudinal sieving graph

 Main Tasks Mill Ventilation:

Hot clinker Cooling air

Cooling air Product

more done by balls  Use of grinding aid

counter current no water

H2O 2nd Comp.

H2O 1st Comp.

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