The rheological behavior of mineral slurries shows the level of interaction or aggregation among particles, being a process control variable in processes such as slurry transportation, dehydration, and wet grinding systems. With the aim to analyze the effect of medium viscosity in wet grinding, a series of monosize grinding ball mill tests were performed to determine breakage parameters, according to the generally accepted kinetic approach of grinding processes. A rheological modifier (polyacrylamide, PAM) was used to modify solutions viscosity. A model was proposed by means of dimensional analysis (Buckingham’s Pi theorem) in order to determine the behavior of the specific breakage rate (Sj) for a ball grinding process in terms of the rheology of the system. In addition to this, a linear adjustment was established for the relationship between specific breakage rates with and without PAM addition, based on the reduced viscosity, μr. Furthermore, within a certain interval of viscosity, it was proved that an increment of viscosity can increase the specific breakage rate, and consequently the grinding degree.
En este artículo se estudia un molino rotatorio continuo para la industria del cemento. Precisamente, se emplea un modelo de balance poblacional, utilizando como ecuación constitutiva una ley de desgaste constante, con el objetivo de obtener: la distribución másica de bolas en el molino, el consumo total de acero de las bolas y el flujo de entrada de bolas para la recarga del molino en el estado estacionario. La base de datos se obtuvo aplicando la prueba de bola marcada a escala industrial, en un molino de la compañía Argos S.A.
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