Effects of disc rotation speed and media loading on particle flow and grinding performance in a horizontal stirred mill

International Journal of Mineral Processing

Volumn 96, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 27-35

  Jayasundara, C T ^a   Yang, R Y ^a   Yu, A B ^a   Rubenstein, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Xstrata   (Australia)

Author keywords

Discrete element method; Grinding; Mineral processing; Stirred mills

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ENERGIES; COLLISION FREQUENCY; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; FIRST ORDER KINETICS; GRINDING; GRINDING PERFORMANCE; HIGH-SPEED; HORIZONTAL STIRRED MILLS; IMPACT ENERGY; MINERAL PROCESSING; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ON FLOW; OPERATIONAL VARIABLES; PARTICLE FLOW; PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; POWER DRAW; ROTATION SPEED; SPEED INCREASE; STIRRED MILLS;

GRINDING (MACHINING); LOADING; MINERAL INDUSTRY; MINERALS; RATE CONSTANTS; ROTATION; SILICATE MINERALS; SPEED;

GRINDING MILLS;

EID: 77955658343     PISSN: 03017516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.minpro.2010.07.006     Document Type: Article

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