Ball Mill Flow Process

The mill product can either be finished size ready for processing or an intermediate size ready for final grinding in a rod mill ball mill or pebble mill agsag mills can accomplish the same size reduction work as two or three stages of crushing and screening a rod mill and some or all of the work of a ball mill

Metallurgical contentopen circuit grindingclosed circuit grindinggrinding circuit process control variablesgrinding operating costs the simplest grinding circuit consists of a ball or rod mill in closed circuit with a classifier the flow sheet is shown in fig 25 and the actual layout in fig 9 this singlestage circuit is chiefly employed for coarse grinding when a product finer than 65

Ball mills are generally used to grind material 14 inch and finer down to the particle size of 20 to 75 microns to achieve a reasonable efficiency with ball mills they must be operated in a closed system with oversize material continuously being recirculated back into the mill to be reduced

The ball mill is an overflow type discharge mill and is designed for a 45 ball charge balls should be added on a regular basis as they are consumed in the mill the balls are added with a one ton ball bucket lifted by an overhead crane and discharged into the ball mill feed chute

Primary ball mill no 5 solids flow gpm 667 172 91 sgu psi 355 psm 286 65 326 solids trim water add gpm 818 ore feed tph grindqgh sump water add gpm high uflow solid power kw begin opt stop opt figure 2 ball mill grinding circuit the ball mill is in closed circuit with a sump and three cyclone classifiers the ore and

Cement manufacturing a wet process with the flow diagram cement manufacturing a wet process with the flow diagram in the wet process 1 the raw limestone from quarries is first crushed to small size fragments then it is mixed with clay or shale in ball or tube mill and ground to form a slurry of a fine consistency with the addition of water