Particulate Technology

Lab
Lab Incharge: Dr. Farukh Jamil
Lab Engineer: Engr. Zufishan Shamair
Experiment – Disc Mill
Disc Mill
Disc Mill
A disc mill is a type of crusher that can be used to grind, cut, shear, shred, fiberize,
pulverize, granulate, crack, rub, curl, fluff, twist, hull, blend, or refine the solid
materials.
Disc Mill
 The disc mill basically of iron/ metal discs
 Two discs rotate together with high speed and close tolerance
 The material is gravity fed through a hopper into the center of stationary grinding
disk straight into the sealed grinding chamber. Here it is taken up by the rotating
grinding disk and crushed.
 The slow, powerful motor combined with the special form of grinding disks make
it possible to grind even very hard sample materials.
 The broken and ground material is fed into a collecting vessel.
 The gap between the two grinding disks is set from the outside to determines the
fineness of the end product.
Disc Mill
Motor

Disc

Hopper
Disc Mill-Line Tracing
Objective
 To report the energy required for crushing 0.5 kg rock salt using laboratory disc
mill.
 To report the total energy required for crushing of bricks for the same equipment.
 To report the results of screen analysis, for the product obtained, in the form of
cumulative and fractional distributional plots, and give inferences.
Procedure
 Prepare 0.5 kg of feed (rock salt) of the size that can pass through the 2 mesh sieve
and retains on the 4 mesh sieve.
 Note down the time (t1) required for 2 revolution (n1) of the energy meter disc
under un-loaded conditions. Also note down the energy meter factor (N).
 Note down the initial meter reading (R1) and turn on the crusher. Start feeding
crusher and start the stopwatch simultaneously in order to measure the total time
(T) required for the crushing. Feed the mill gradually and slowly otherwise there is
chance of choking of the mill.
 During the course of crushing, note down the time (t2) required for 2 revolutions
(n2) under loaded conditions.
 When crushing is completed, stop the stopwatch and turn off the crusher. Note
down the total time required for crushing and the final meter reading (R2).
 Again turn on the crusher and note down the time required for 2 revolutions under
Procedure
 When crushing is completed, stop the stopwatch and turn off the crusher. Note
down the total time required for crushing and the final meter reading (R2).
 Again turn on the crusher and note down the time required for 2 revolutions under
un-loaded conditions. Take the average value of two t1 s.
 Analyze the material by screening different screens and weigh out the mass
retained on each sieve and in the pan.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM-NrQoRIYY
Sieve Analysis
 Separation on the basis of size

 Used for quality control

 Measurement of particle size in the sample

 Measurement of particle size distribution

Calculations
   = , kWh/ton

 = , kWh/ton
Graphs

Cumulative Mass fraction

Weight fraction (X)

Avg Particle Size Stated Particle Size