 INSTRUCTION MANUAL.

VIBRATING SCREEN

SET UP
 DESCRIPTION
 SPECIFICATIONS
 INSTALLATION REQUIREMENTS
 INSTALLATION AND CONNECTIONS
 PRECAUTIONS
 TROUBLE SHOOTING

EXPREMENTATION
 INTRODUCTION
 AIM
 OPERATING PROCEDURE’
 SYSTEM CONSTANTS/CALCULATIONS
 CALCULATIONS
 OBSERVATION TABLE
 GRAPH
 Product code- IT/MO/01 Drg. No.- 522 To MIT, Aurangabad
Date – 05/01 Pages –4 nos. Approved by- KDR

VIBRATING SCREEN
INTRODUCTION
Vibrating screens are used for mechanical separation of dry hard grains amplitude pass
without trouble through screens. Screens, which are rapidly vibrated with small
amplitude, are less likely to blind (a screen plugged with solid is said to be blinded) than
are gyrating screen. Mechanical vibrations are usually transmitted from high-speed
ecentric to the casing of the unit and from there to screens. Ordinarily no more than
three decks are used in vibrating screens. The objective of screen is to accept mixture of
particles of various sizes and separate it into two fractions, an underflow that is passed
through screen and an overflow that is rejected by screen. Either one or both of these
streams may be a product.

AIM:
To determine the screen effectiveness of screens.

PROCEDURE:
1. Start vibrating screen and set timer for a known time.
2. Weigh sample accurately.
3. Using standard test screens weigh exact quantities of feed materials.
4. Collect material and mix it thoroughly.
5. Pour sample on screen and allow the sample to screen thoroughly.
6. Remove screens from unit carefully.
7. Weigh sample retained on each screen.
 8. Calculate weight fraction of each sample retained on every screen.
9. Calculate screen effectiveness.

CALCULATIONS
Material balances over screen.
Simple material balances can be written over a screen, which are useful in calculating
there ratios of feed, oversize and underflow from the screen analyses of the three
streams and knowledge of the desired cut dia.
F = Mass flow rate of the feed.
D = Mass flow rate of overflow.
B = Mass flow rate of underflow.
Xf = Mass fraction of material A in feed.
Xd = Mass fraction of material A in overflow.
Xb = Mass fraction of material A in underflow.

The mass fractions material B in feed, overflow and underflow are 1 – Xf, 1 – Xd and 1 –
Xb.
Since the total material feed to the screen and must leave it either as overflow or as
underflow.
F = D + B ---------------------------------- (1)
The material a in the feed must also leave in the streams and
FXf = DXd = BXb --------------------------- (2)
Elimination of B from equations (1) and (2) gives,
D = Xf - Xb
F = Xd – Xb

Elimination of D gives
B = Xd - Xf
F = Xd- Xb
Screen effectiveness of a screen (often called as screen efficiency) is a measure of the
success of a screen closely separating material A and B. If a screen functioned perfectly,
all material A would be in overflow & all of the material B would be in the underflow. A
common measure of screen effectiveness is the ratio of oversize material A that is
actually in the overflow to the amount of a entering with the feed. These quantities are
Dxd & Fxf respectively. Thus.
Ea = Dxd
Fxf

Where Ea is the screen effectiveness base on the oversize. Similarly, an effectiveness Eb

based on the undersize material is given by

Eb = B (1 – Xb)
F (1 – Xf)

A combined overall effectiveness can be defined the product of two individual ratio
denoted by E,

E = Ea * Eb = D.Bxd (1- Xb)

F²Xf (1- Xf)

Substituting D/F & B/F from equation (3) & (4),

E = (Xf – Xb) (Xd- Xf) Xd (1 – Xb)

(Xd – Xb) ²(1- Xf) Xf.

OBSERVATION TABLE

size Dp, Feed (F) Overflow (D) Underflow (b)

mm

HERE F = feed.
D = overflow.
B = underflow.
GRAPH – Plot a graph of screen size v/s cumulative mass fraction.