Is media shape important for grinding performance in stirred mills?

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 138-151

  Sinnott, Matthew D ^a   Cleary, Paul W ^a   Morrison, Rob D ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Comminution; Discrete Element Method (DEM); Grinding; Stirred mills

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE VOLUMES; BASIC CONCEPTS; BULK DENSITY; CONTACT MECHANICS; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; FINE GRINDING; GRINDING; GRINDING MEDIA; GRINDING PERFORMANCE; LINER WEAR; NON-SPHERICAL; NONSPHERICAL PARTICLE; NUMERICAL MODELS; PILOT SCALE; POWER DRAW; POWER LEVELS; SCREW IMPELLERS; SOLID LAYERS; SPHERICAL MEDIA; STIRRED MEDIA MILL; STIRRED MILLS; STRESS DISTRIBUTION; WEAR RATES;

BALL MILLS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; GRINDING (MACHINING); SLAGS; SPHERES; STRESS CONCENTRATION; TOWERS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS); WEAR OF MATERIALS;

GRINDING (COMMINUTION);

EID: 78650894285     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mineng.2010.10.016     Document Type: Article

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