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Pre-grinding equipment for raw Application process

Raw material
material grinding process process
Recently, the vertical roller mill having great grinding performance is widely applied to the
raw material grinding process. However, tube mill, which has about 30% poor grinding
Background performance as power consumption, has been still used many existing cement plant. The
improvement of this tube mill grinding system is highly expected.
The tube mill comminutes raw materials by impact and friction between grinding balls,
which hit raw materials as well as between grinding ball and mill lining. Many of this
type mills have two grinding chambers for coarse and fine grinding. Grinding ball size
and their distribution are designed and adjusted considering raw material conditions
and mill dimensions etc. However, the energy efficiency in the coarse grinding
chamber is extremely poor and there is limitation to improve both performances for
coarse and fine grinding on the same mill by ball size selection etc.
Therefore, a new system was proposed and developed by installing a pre-grinder,
which is roller mill or roller press, as coarse grinding before the existing tube mill,
which is exclusively used for fine grinding. This system greatly reduced the specific
power consumption and improved the production capacity. This system is now
installed at three plants in Japan and improvement of production of 50 to 100% has
been achieved when roll mill type pre-grinder is used.
As the pre-grinder, vertical roller mill is often used considering its great grinding
efficiency.
Descriptions

Separ
Mixed raw materials ator

Pre-grinder Product
Coarse powder
Raw material tube
mill

Coarse powder

Fig. Raw material grinding system

Table Effect of implementing raw material pre-grinder

Before After
Effect
implementation implementation
Production Rate t-RM/h 180 354 97% up
Fineness: 88µm (residue) % 17 22
(Tube mill power) kW 2550 2650
Results (Pre-grinder power) kW ― 1120
Total power consumption kW 2550 3770
Specific power consumption
kWh/t-RM 14.2 10.6 25% down
of tube mill only
Departmental power
kWh/t-RM 34.3 26.6 22% down
consumption rate
By this production increasing, it is expected that operation in the daytime can be
shortened and then power cost can be reduced.
Cost
About 7.3 million US$ (depending on the scale) [1US$=¥110]
estimation
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