Ex 1: A material is crushed in a Blake jaw crusher such that the

average size of particle is reduced from 50mm to 10mm with the

consumption of energy of 13.0 kW/(kg/s). What would be the
consumption of energy needed to crush the same material of
average size 75mm to an average size of 25mm?
1) By Rittinger's law 2) by Kick's law

Solution:
Rittinger's law
 1 1 
E  k R f c   
L
 2 L 1 

 1 1 
13  k R f c   
 10 50 
k R f c  162.5kW / kg .mm

The energy required to crush 75mm material to 25mm

 1 1 
E  162 . 5   
 25 75 
E  4 . 33 kJ / kg

2) Kick's law
L1
E  k k f c ln
L2
50
13  k k fc ln
10
k k f c  8 . 08 kW /( kg / s )

The energy required to crush 75mm material to 25mm

75
E  8 . 08 ln( )
25
E  8 . 88 kJ / kg

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Ex2: A crushing mill reduces limestone from a mean particle
size of 45mm to the following product:
Size (mm) Amount of product (percent)
12.5 0.5
7.5 7.5
5.0 45.0
2.5 19.0
1.5 16.0
0.75 8.0
0.40 3.0
0.20 1.0
It requires 21 kJ/kg of material crushed. Calculate the power
required to crush the same material at the same rate, from a
feed having a mean size of 25mm to a product with a mean size
of 1mm?

Solution:

The mass diameter of product is

d 
 n i d i
4

 n 
v 3
i d i

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d 
 n i d i
4
 101510
 7 . 78 mm
 n 
v 3
i d i 13049

Kick's law is used

Case 1:

E=21 kJ/kg , L1=45mm , L2= 7.8mm

L1
E  k k f c ln
L2
45
21  k k fc ln
7 .8

k k f c  11 . 98 kJ / kg

Case2:

L1= 25mm , L2 = 1 mm
25
E  11 . 98 ln
1 .0
=38.6 kJ/kg

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