Grinding with Ball Mill Systems
Mill Ventilation
Heating & Cooling - Possibilities
Cooling in Separator
Mill Ventilation
Heating
HGRS
Cement
Coolers
Water
Injection
Tikaria_Mill
Workshop
2
SEPT-07
Heating and Cooling Units
Mill Ventilation
Water Injection
Heating
HGRS
Tikaria_Mill
Workshop
3
SEPT-07
Mill Ventilation - Objectives
Avoid the consequences of too high grinding
temperatures inside the mill (115 130 [C]):
HGRS
Material coating on balls and liners resulting in a
performance loss of 5 10 [%]
Cement false setting gypsum dehydration
Lump formation in the silos
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Workshop
4
SEPT-07
Mill Ventilation - Guidelines
False air
Filter dimensioned for 1.5 [m/s]
airspeed above the ball charge
Optimum mill ventilation is a
compromise between :
Fan
Material level in the first chamber
Mill outlet temperature
Filter dew point (T >25 30 [C])
Product fineness at the filter
Mill fresh air
False air
False air reduces the cooling
capacity of the mill tube
HGRS
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Workshop
5
SEPT-07
Additional ventilation cooling possibilities
False air
Separator fresh air
Fan
Clinker
Mill fresh air
False air
Water
HGRS
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Workshop
Cooler
6
SEPT-07
Separator fresh air
Separator fresh air
A single pass separator with 0.7 [m3/kg cement] can cool down
the cement at the mill outlet 30 40 [C].
The mill tube is cooled down through the lower temperature
separator rejects
A cyclone air separator only achieves marginal cooling of the
cement (5 10 [C])
HGRS
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Workshop
7
SEPT-07
Heating and Cooling - Units
Mill Ventilation
Water Injection
Heating
HGRS
Tikaria_Mill
Workshop
8
SEPT-07
Water injection - Guidelines
1 [m3/h] water = 15000 30000 [m3/h] air in heat dissipation
Water acts like a grinding aid (mill capacity increase)
Water increases the air dew point (watch out starts & stops) must
maintain air temperature 25 to 30 oC higher than dew point in filter
Not more than 1.0 1.5 [%] water injection on total mill feed basis
Water
HGRS
Tikaria_Mill
Workshop
9
SEPT-07
Water injection - Systems
Water in 1st chamber only if mill feed > 100 [C] and oriented towards
the ball charge
If water is required in both chambers: 1/3 in the 1st chamber & 2/3 in
the 2nd chamber, starting in 2nd
HGRS
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Workshop
10
SEPT-07
Water injection - Devices
HGRS
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11
SEPT-07
Standard Installation
HGRS
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Workshop
12
SEPT-07
Water injection Control scheme
HGRS
Tikaria_Mill
Workshop
13
SEPT-07
Heating and Cooling - Units
Mill Ventilation
Water Injection
Heating
HGRS
Tikaria_Mill
Workshop
14
SEPT-07
Fresh feed moisture and mill performance
[t/h] dry
Clinker temperature &
proportion
Hot gas generator
maximum capacity
100
90
[%] H2O in fresh feed
HGRS
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Workshop
15
SEPT-07
Dying wet components without hot gas
+/-
+/-
> 90 - 95 [C]
+
HGRS
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Workshop
16
SEPT-07
Drying wet components with hot gas
+/-
+/-
+
> 90 - 95 [C]
+
HGRS
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Workshop
17
SEPT-07
Drying wet components with hot gas
False air
Hot gas
+
Water steam
False air
Fan gas
= Fan gas
False air
Water
steam
Hot gas
False air
HGRS
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Workshop
18
SEPT-07
Hot gas generator
Fuel type
Nozzle adapted to the
operating range
Control
Hot gas generator type
(start/stop sequences)
HGRS
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Workshop
19
SEPT-07
Drying wet components in a drying chamber
Parameters to play with in a drying chamber:
HGRS
Gas flow path
Material trajectory
Material retention time
Tikaria_Mill
Workshop
20
SEPT-07
