Linking discrete element modeling to breakage in a pilot-scale AG/SAG mill

2006 SME Annual Conference - Advances in Comminution

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 269-283

  Morrison, R ^a   Loveday, B ^b   Djordjevic, N ^a   Cleary, P ^c   Owen, P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARRELING; COMMINUTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORES; ROCKS;

AUTOGENOUS GRINDING (AG); DISCRETE ELEMENT MODELING (DEM); JULIUS KRUTTSCHNITT MINERAL RESEARCH CENTRE (JKMRC); SEMIAUTOGENOUS GRINDING (SAG);

MILLING (MACHINING);

EID: 33748988992     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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