Assessing the energy efficiency of a jaw crusher

Energy

Volumn 74, Issue C, 2014, Pages 119-130

  Legendre, Daniel ^a   Zevenhoven, Ron ^a  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Comminution; DEM simulation; Energy efficiency; Experiments; Jaw crusher

Indexed keywords

COMMINUTION; CRUSHERS; CRUSHING; EXPERIMENTS; GRINDING (COMMINUTION); NUMERICAL METHODS;

COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE; DEM SIMULATION; DISCRETE ELEMENT MODELLING (DEM); ELECTRIC POWER; JAW CRUSHERS; OPTIMISATIONS; PROCESS INPUTS; SINGLE PARTICLE;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84927698834     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2014.04.036     Document Type: Article

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