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    A ball mill is a horizontal cylinder that rotates, imparting a tumbling and cascading action to the steel balls inside. Material fed into the mill is crushed by impact and attrition between the balls. Ball mills are commonly used to grind material in cement production and are normally driven by electric motors. The power required to turn the mill depends on factors like its internal diameter, volume occupied by the grinding media, total mass of media, and rotational speed.

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    Cement Mill Calculation Desaign

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    A ball mill is a horizontal cylinder that rotates, imparting a tumbling and cascading action to the steel balls inside. Material fed into the mill is crushed by impact and attrition between the balls. Ball mills are commonly used to grind material in cement production and are normally driven by electric motors. The power required to turn the mill depends on factors like its internal diameter, volume occupied by the grinding media, total mass of media, and rotational speed.

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    A ball mill is a horizontal cylinder that rotates, imparting a tumbling and cascading action to the steel balls inside. Material fed into the mill is crushed by impact and attrition between the balls. Ball mills are commonly used to grind material in cement production and are normally driven by electric motors. The power required to turn the mill depends on factors like its internal diameter, volume occupied by the grinding media, total mass of media, and rotational speed.

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    A ball mill is a horizontal cylinder partly filled with steel balls (or occasionally other shapes) that rotates on

    its axis, imparting a tumbling and cascading action to the balls. Material fed through the mill is crushed by
    impact and ground by attrition between the balls. The grinding media are usually made of high-chromium
    steel. The smaller grades are occasionally cylindrical ("pebs") rather than spherical. There exists a speed
    of rotation (the "critical speed") at which the contents of the mill would simply ride over the roof of the mill
    due to centrifugal action. The critical speed (rpm) is given by: nC = 42.29/d, where d is the internal
    diameter in metres. Ball mills are normally operated at around 75% of critical speed, so a mill with
    diameter 5 metres will turn at around 14 rpm.

    The mill is usually divided into at least two chambers, allowing the use of different sizes of grinding media.
    Large balls are used at the inlet, to crush clinker nodules (which can be over 25 mm in diameter). Ball
    diameter here is in the range 60-80 mm. In a two-chamber mill, the media in the second chamber are
    typically in the range 15-40 mm, although media down to 5 mm are sometimes encountered. As a general
    rule, the size of media has to match the size of material being ground: large media can't produce the
    ultra-fine particles required in the finished cement, but small media can't break large clinker particles. Mills
    with as many as four chambers, allowing a tight segregation of media sizes, were once used, but this is
    now becoming rare. Alternatives to multi-chamber mills are:

    pairs of mills, run in tandem, charged with different-sized media.
    use of alternative technology (see Roll-presses below) to crush the clinker prior to fine-grinding in a ball
    mill.
    A current of air is passed through the mill. This helps keep the mill cool, and sweeps out evaporated
    moisture which would otherwise cause hydration and disrupt material flow. The dusty exhaust air is
    cleaned, usually with bag filters.

    Cement mills are normally driven by electric motors. Modern installations draw power of 2-10 MW. The
    power (in kW) required to turn a ball mill is approximated by: P = 0.285 d (1.073-j) m n where d is the
    internal diameter in metres, j is the fraction of the mill volume occupied by media, m is the total mass of
    media in the mill, in tonnes, and n is the mill speed, rpm. The actual motor energy consumption is 5-10%
    greater than this due to mechanical losses in the motor and gearbox.

    The output achieved by a ball mill system varies with the mill power, the fineness of the product and the
    hardness of the clinker. A typical general purpose Portland cement of fineness (specific surface) 340
    m.kg-1 ground on an efficient closed-circuit ball mill system requires around 32 kWh per tonne, so a 10
    MW mill would produce 313 tonnes of this per hour. In addition to the energy consumption of the mill, the
    "ancillary" equipment (separator, fans, conveyors, pumps) would require another 2-3 kWh per tonne. As a
    rule of thumb, the energy requirement increases with fineness to the power 1.5, so the corresponding
    figure for a typical rapid hardening cement with specific surface 550 m.kg-1, the corresponding data
    would be 66 kWh per tonne energy consumption and 152 tonnes per hour output.

    About 1-2% of the energy supplied is used in fracturing particles,[3] and the remaining energy ends up as
    heat which has to be dissipated by the mill system.

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