Should the slurry density in a grinding mill be adjusted as a function of grinding media size?

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 810-815

  Bazin, Claude ^a   Obiang, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breakage rates; Grinding ball size; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

BALL MILLING; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); GRINDING MILLS; OPTIMIZATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

BREAKAGE RATES; GRINDING BALL SIZE; GROUND PRODUCTS; SLURRY DENSITY;

SLURRIES;

EID: 34249950347     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2007.01.017     Document Type: Article

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