Example 1: Cumulative Screen Analysis

Standard 10-mesh screen. Calculate mass ratios of the overflow and underflow to
feed and overall effectiveness of screen.
 Lecture
Problem : 2
-

?
sample feed As o 5 4 Pp =
1281cm
-

=
,

Asse ?
, DTs = ?

:( /÷÷
Mesh no screen
opening , min mass retained
-
U U 75
}
O
-

}
5 3- 35 335
6 2-8 324

i ÷:÷
6
.
:
25 0 .
o 79
30 0.50 3 9
36 o
-
Y 25 29

HY 3.55 26
o
-

50 O -

3 27
52 o .
25 28
85 0 .
I 8 40

I 1¥
too 0 .
I 55 26
120 27
125
-

o
'

÷ :*
-
.

I
.

69
Total
Ass =
¥4
DTs = O -

384 mm
Screen
#
effectiveness
x
screen

-
efficiency) ?

A mixture
→
overflow ,
D

P
F

→#t
-

↳ underflow B
Too perfect
,

* screens ,

All material A will be in flow of

of over

all material B will be in flow

of under .

F, D, B -

mass flow rate of feed, overflow of

under flow

UF , xD, KB -
be mass fraction of material A
in these steams

material balance :
-

F = Dt B

for material At
D
Exp =
RD +B RD
D RF-xp.es
=
If xD -

RB

B RD Rf -

=
F KD -
RB
 Screen
effectiveness based oversize materials
on
,

* C Ratio of oversize material A that is actually in

the overflow to the amount A entering wits feed
DND
EA
-

F- Rf

screen
effectiveness based on meter size materials
B Cl -

Hpd
EB =

7¥
So overall
, combined effectiveness ,

DND

BCI-RBJ-FCI-afj.GE
E EA Eg
s*
= I

E-⇐¥ce
-

RB ) Gers -
Rf ) xD (l -

)
RB

Problem :3 see
-

- 047
-

KD = O -

85

KB = O -
195

F = 0.42
E =
062

¥ = 058
Problem 4 :

Calculate the equivalent volume

sphere dia .
Ru 4 surface volume equivalent
-

sphere da Nsv of a cuboid particle of

side length 1
, 74 mm .

seu = ?

Rsv = ?
]
Volume cuboid 1×2×4 = 8mm
of a

Eat -
-

s
mnIJ
Surface area
of cuboid particle

(
-
= 2 1×2+2×4 + 1×7) = 28 mm

surface to volume ratio the

of
particle 28
mass
may
=
35
g-
=

For a
sphere ratio of surface
, area to volume

=
G-
Rsv

÷ = as
Cim
 Boblem
Cuboid
particle 5 X 3 XI mm

(9) Rv = 3.06 mm

(b) Surface 46 mm
area
of particle =

2
Surface area
of sphere =
IT as =
46

→ Us = 3 83
- mm

l 96 mm
(C) Ksv
-
=

¥ 9
6

%
-
-

(d) sieedia
,
I 3 mm

Area
of a circle =
It r2

}
MM
Projected
7%2=252
area = 3 1.95 mm
=

% mm!}
an

Rpg a
4.37 mm
Particle Size Distribution
 Particle Size Distribution

 The length is the distance between two tangential planes

which are perpendicular to those defining the thickness and
breadth.

 In practice it may be difficult to measure the particle thickness,

particularly from microscopy, and so often we are limited to using
simply the elongation ratio, as shown in Figure.
 Particle Size Distribution
Shape Factor

 The ratio of two equivalent diameters obtained by different

methods is termed a shape factor.

 Shape factors describe the departure of the particle from a

spherical form.

One of the simplest is the sphericity, Ψ, defined by Wadell

(1934) as:
Some terminology about 
diameters.

Equivalent circle 
diameter

Martin’s diameter

Feret’s diameter

Shear diameter