Vertical stirred mills have been widely applied in the minerals industry, due to its greater efficiency in comparison with conventional tumbling mills. In this context, the agitator liner wear plays an important role in maintenance planning and operational costs. In this paper, we use the discrete element method (DEM) wear simulation to evaluate the screw liner wear. Three different mill rotational velocities are evaluated in the simulation, according to different scale-up procedures. The wear profile, wear measurement, power consumption, and particle contact information are used for obtaining a better understanding of the wear behavior and its effects on grinding mechanisms. Data from a vertical stirred mill screw liner wear measurement obtained in a full-scale mill are used to correlate with simulation results. The results indicate a relative agreement with industrial measurement in most of the liner lifecycle, when using a proper mill velocity scale-up.
The aim of this paper is to present a method to analyze the dynamic of the charge in a ball mill. The method is based on the mill torque estimated from angular position and motor electrical signals. The estimated torque signal obtained from a Luenberguer velocity observer is bandpass filtered to isolate the mill-filling-related component. The root-mean-square value of this component, used as an indication variable, is correlated to vibration signal measured through an accelerometer in order to check the validity of the proposed method. The proposed method does not need any sensor be installed directly on the mill and requires only sensors usually available for motor control purposes in frequency inverter drives.Index Terms-Ball mill, charge behavior, load torque estimator, mill filling.
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