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Incoming ore feed size distribution variations impact on Autogenous/Semi-autogenous (AG/SAG) grinding mill operation, potentially influencing mill disturbances and performance. ... Keywords: Laboratory-based AG/SAG mill, acoustic emissions, ore feed size, real-time monitoring, dry and wet grinding conditions . Author: Owusu, Kwaku Boateng ...
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Sep 1, 2022As primary grinding units which receive feed directly from crushers, industrial AG/SAG mills are difficult to control and stabilise owing to the variability of the feed ore characteristics in terms of hardness (work index), competency, and size distribution (F 80), as well as the harsh operating conditions of the mills (Thornton et al., 2005).
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"Although it is well known and easily experienced that the feed size distribution influences the throughput and stability of operation of a semi-autogenous grinding (SAG) mill, the details are poorly understood since it is often only the input and output measurements that are used to identify unfavourable in-mill conditions.
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& Mainza, A.N. 2009). However, SAG mill weight is difficult to control as the dynamic response changes as the mill approaches maximum capacity. Near maximum capacity, the weight response exhibits ... ore feed size distribution or mill rotation speed are also included in the control design, then the expert rules become even
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SAG mill operation is a bit complicated because of possible fluctuations you might have in your feed size distribution or ore competency. Once calculated this can be optimised by using trajectory spreadsheet from moly-cop tools. I'm attending JK-met course soon and I will be able to compare the two software! O OberstGruppen 6 years ago Like
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The shape of the product particle size distribution curve was investigated and specific surface (BET) was measured. During production of material with top size of 40 microns in an air swept mill, the capacity was up to 25% higher when compared to a grate discharge mill. This difference dropped to 18% during production of 10 micron top size ...
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The size distribution of feed to the SAG mill could change over the time depending on which feeders are running, the location of feeders, and the level of material at different section of the ...
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the oversize crusher feed size distribution, oscf, and the primary cyclone feed size distribution, pcfd, are estimated utilising the sag mill grate size and discharge screen aperture sizes and the rosin-rammler size distribution function, which has been selected for its convenience and since it "has been found to fit many size distributions very .
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Proceedings of the 40th Annual Canadian Mineral Processors Conference - 2008 450 - ASRi () recycle crusher gap control. - WipfragTM feed size distribution measurements - upgraded software and ruggedised installation. This system had already been in operation, but had not been used for
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SAG mill speed may be varied automatically between 65 and 73% of critical by the use of a liquid rheostat arrangement. Measured variables include new feed rate recirculating load, feed and recycle particle size distribution, process water flows, trunnion bearing pressure and motor power draw.
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The feed size distribution is also the implicit result of the ore competence (affecting blasting and crushing performance). This distribution affects the SAG mill load and the load affects directly the mill power and the efficiency of the mill operation (Van Nierop and Moys, 2001).
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95% of the feed is finer than 1mm and 20% is finer than 0.15mm. The mean size of the material passing the 0.15mm screen can be estimated assuming the bottom size is 1 micron. Particle Sizes Distribution Models. There is a common need to determine the amount of material in the feed at a given particle size.
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Number, size and mass of each ball size depends on mill load and whether or not the media is being added as the initial charge. For the initial chargin of a mill, Coghill and DeVaney (1937) defined the ball size as a function of the top size of the feed, i.e., dâ†"V = 0.40 K√F dB = ball size (cm) F = feed size (cm)
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Mass In = Mass Out Volume In = Volume Out Mass and Component Balance Outotec Concentrator The component balance is true for any assay type such as any element content, % finer than, water-to-solids ratio etc. Ff = Cc + Rr Mass Yield or Mass Recovery Outotec Concentrator Two-Product Formula Given the mass and component balance equations : F = C + R
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Figure 1 shows a range of M4A SAG feed size distributions compared with an M1 feed size distribution. It is clear that the M1 material fragments very finely in the blast -producing about 70% minus...
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Commercial camera systems are available to measure the size distribution of the feed ore to a mill. This paper investigates how well basic equipment and algorithms can perform such a task in real time. Based on this mea- surement, a feedforward controller is designed to reject disturbances caused by size distribution changes.
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A ball mill is a type of grinder used to grind or blend materials for use in mineral dressing processes, paints, pyrotechnics, ceramics, and selective laser sintering.It works on the principle of impact and attrition: size reduction is done by impact as the balls drop from near the top of the shell. A ball mill consists of a hollow cylindrical shell rotating about its axis. T
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• Solid percentage and size distribution at the hydrocyclones • Slurry flow and density to hydrocyclones • Mill pump feed sump level • Recycle flow • Noise The following variables may be measured in SAG mill circuits and used for control purposes: The weight of the ore and water needs to be controlled within the accepted operating ...
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then transport the ore to the SAG Mill Feed Conveyor. The SAG Mill conveyor then feeds into the Semi - Autogenous (SAG) Mill for further processing. re feed from the storage binO s will be regulated with variable speed drives on each apron feeder. These drives will enable Wedgetail Operations, LLC to form blended ores to be delivered to the SAG ...
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Feed size distribution Selection of circuit configuration in terms of liner and grate selection and closing size (screen apertures or hydrocyclone operating conditions) Ball charge (fraction of volumetric loading and ball size) Mill operating conditions including mill speed (for circuits with variable-speed drives), density, and total mill load
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stage SAG milling is likely to be a comparatively profitable grinding circuit design. xMedium Grind - 80% passing size between 106 and 75 µm. To mill in single stage SAG configuration, the feed must be consistent and the downstream process reasonably capable of handling some fluctuations in the grind size.
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SAG mills have special requirements on feed size distribution, which is influenced by the size distribution of the blasted rock (Esen 2013). The 80% passing size, x 80, is regularly used to...
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Industrial crushers reduce large rocks, ore or waste materials to smaller sizes by impact or pressure to fracture or deform the material. During the primary crushing operation, boulder size feeds from 20 to 100 in. are reduced to secondary crusher sizes of 1 to 20 in. or mill feed size of .5 to 3 in.
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Ball mill. The capacity of ball mills is 0.65 ~ 615t/h, and the discharge particle size of the ground material is 0.074 ~ 0.4mm. Rod mill. The capacity of rod mills is 0.62 ~ 180t/h, and the discharge particle size is 0.147 ~ 0.833mm. 2. Different grinding media Ball mill
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the resulting unit has 6,710 mm id ø x 11,130 mm (22' id ø x 36.5') of flange-to-flange (ff) length, and is fitted with two 4,474 kw (6,000 hp ) synchronous motors taken from the mills at kemess.the fresh material from the coarse ore bin feeds the sag mill at the design rate of 370 t/h, equivalent to 8,880 t per operated day, which meets the .
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The important thing to take away is this: Over the life of the liners, the SAG mill will operate at peak efficiency throughout a wide range of bearing pressures, dependent on the current liner...
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EF5BM=[ P80+10.3 1.145×P80] ( 3 ) The EF4 formula requires both the rod mill and ball mill work index (rod mill Wi is used to calculate the optimal feed size) and because this is a "single-stage ball mill" calculation, the F80 is actually the rod mill feed size (10,000 µm) from Table 1 and the P80 is the ball mill circuit product. The EF5 factor only applies below 75 µm to ball
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MILL FEED SIZE CHARACTERIZATION Run-of-mine (ROM) ore milling circuits deal with a wide possible range of feed sizes and distributions. By definition the ROM ore is not pre-processed before entering the milling circuit.
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iii ores containing clay. Previously, HPGR was considered only suitable for very hard ores and the technology was rejected for other cases. A unique pilot-plant
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The modeling and simulation of semiautogenous (SAG) mills have been widely used in the design and optimization of mill performance in terms of its power draw, processing capacity and product size distribution. However, these models are solved under steady approximation and do not provide any information on mill charge distribution in real time.
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Typically either the 31.5+26.5mm or -22.4+19mm sizes are chosen as these are easily extractable from HQ and NQ cores respectively, and these tend to be the most popular core sizes used. When sample availability is very limited, quartered (slivered) core samples are cut using a diamond saw (Figures 1-3).
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The state of the ore charge inside a SAG mill can be characterized by the mass and particle size distribution of each rock-type. Usually, the particle size distribution is expressed as the discrete mass fractions retained on sieves Figure 1. Mintek SAG piloting facility Figure 2. Example of grate discharge used in the pilot mill
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Semi-Autogenous Grinding (SAG) Mill Wet or dry Higher capacity than A-G mill grinding Primary, coarse grinding (up to 400 mm feed size) Grinding media is grinding feed plus 4-12% ball charge (ball dia.100- 125 mm) High capacity (short retention time) Less sensitive to feed composition (critical size material) Semi-Autogenous Mill
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Table 4 presents typical size distributions of the minus ½ in. fraction of the mill discharge (corresponding to the trommel undersize) obtained in pilot tests for two different cases: a) Semi autogenous grinding in closed circuit with cyclones. No pebble ports in the grates (SAG circuit).
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6: Calculate the mill discharge size distribution of the full scale mill Input data: The feed size distribution of the full scale mill (column 9), the βi Full scale values (column 8) and the appearance function (column 2). Using Equation 4 the mill discharge size distribution for the full scale mill can now be calculated and is given in column 10.
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This paper expands the SAG mill survey database published by the Author at Procemin 2013. ... Tabulate a summary of which Particle Size Distribution (PSD) ...
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The feed size should be prepared using a more rigorous procedure to ensure constant mass in each of the course screen fractions. 4. The curve of finished product versus time should be modeled and the resulting index calculated from the model for a standard feed size distribution, so that errors attributable to the sample preparation step are ...
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We describe here one of the very first pioneering SAG Mill Feed Particle Size Analysers: A set of preliminary experiments was carried out in order to assess the hardware-software's behaviour. Static ore was used to obtain the right sequence of image processing algorithms.
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SAG mills tend to use in the industry due to lower energy consumption is increasingly enhanced. Only a small percentage of the energy consumed by the grinding, However grinding in SAG mill is depended on many factors such as hardness, size and shape of feed and ball. Therefore, the achievement of the above factors and energy consumption is of particular importance.
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In this case the size distribution is used as a "disturbance variable" in a model predictive controller for a SAG mill. The model can predict by up to 100 seconds in advance the effect on the SAG mill weight. This has greatly improved the stability of the grinding circuit as well as increased the energy efficiency of the Mill.
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