(CHEN-1104) PARTICULATE

TECHNOLOGY
Lecture 14 – Equipment for Size
Reduction

Course Instructor: Engr. Asim Ali

26-04-2019
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 Contents
 Problem No. 5

 Conical Ball Mill

 Critical Speed of Ball Mill

 Bulk Solids

 Pressure in fluids vs bulk solids

 Mid-Term paper pattern

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 Contents
 Assignment No. 2

 Recommended Books

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 Problem No. 5

What rotational speed, in revolutions per minute

(RPM), would you recommend for a ball mill 1200

mm in diameter charged with 75 mm balls?

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 Conical Ball Mill

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 Critical speed of Ball Mill
𝟏 𝒈
𝒏𝒄 =
𝟐𝟐 𝑹−𝒓

g = 9.8 m/s2

R = radius of Mill

r = radius of balls

𝝅 = 22/7 = 3.1416

Recommended Speed of ball mill = ?

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 Bulk Solids

 Bulk solids are loose, dry commodities such

as sugar, starch, minerals, chemicals, pigments,

fillers, plastic resin and recycled plastics

 Bulk Solids make up more than 80 percent of

items transported around the world.

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 Pressure in fluids vs bulk solids

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 Assignment No. 2

Odd Roll Numbers Even Roll Numbers

e.g., CHEN18111001 e.g., CHEN18111002

Roller Mills Attrition Mills

Fluid Energy Mills Agitated Mills
Cutting Machines Colloid Mills

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 Mid-Term Paper Pattern

 Total Marks = 100

 Weightage = 30%

 Total Time = 70 minutes

 Calculators are must and allowed

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 Mid-Term Paper Pattern
 Only blue ink pen or blue ball point

 No helping material will be allowed

 Bring pencil, pencil sharpener, rubber, scale, and

calculator

 Write clearly, if your hand writing is not legible,

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leave one line after the sentence
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 Mid-Term Paper Pattern
 Your papers will be shown to you in your next
lecture immediate after the exams

 Only on 15-04-2019 (Wednesday) your paper

will be shown to you, if you missed this date, you
would not be shown your paper afterwards

 Your exam will also consist of numericals so

calculator is must!

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 Recommended Books
1. McCabe Warren L, Smith Julian C, Harriott Peter.,
“Unit Operations, 7th Edition, 2010, McGraw-Hill
Inc.

2. Coulson J. M, Richardson J. F., “Chemical

Engineering- Particle technology and separation
processes” Vol 2, 5th Ed. 2007, Pergamon Press.

3. Martin Rhodes, “Introduction to Particle

Technology, 2nd Ed. 2008, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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 Recommended Books

4. Richard G. Holdich, “Fundamentals of Particle

Technology”, 2002, Midland Information
Technology and Publishing.

5. Enrique Ortega-Rivas, “Unit Operations of

Particulate Solids: Theory and Practice” 2012,
CRC Press.

6. Hans Rumpf, “Particle Technology”, 4th Edition.

2013.

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