Lecture 9

• Different Sieving Methods for

Varying Applications
• Efficiency of screening

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 Different Sieving Methods for Varying
Applications
• In vibrational sieving, the sample is submitted to
three dimensional movements.
• A circular movement superimposes a vertical
throwing motion.
• This mechanism causes the particles to be uniformly
distributed across the entire sieving surface and to
be thrown into the air where they ideally change
their orientation in a way that enables them to be
compared to the sieve apertures in all probable
dimensions.
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 Different Sieving Methods for Varying
Applications
• Sieving with controlled acceleration
• The Sieve Shakers, are activated in their natural
frequency.
• In other words, the sieving frequency changes with the
load of the instrument.
• It depends on the sample quantity and the weight of
the sieve stack.  

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 Different Sieving Methods for Varying
Applications
• Wet sieving
• Wet sieving is a special case of vibratory sieving.
• The sieving process may be complicated by electrostatic
charging, agglomeration, or a high degree of fineness of
the sample.
• In such cases wet sieving may be required.
• In this process, the sample is washed through the sieve
stack in a suitable medium which is generally water.

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 Different Sieving Methods for Varying
Applications
• Horizontal sieving

Principle of horizontal sieving Horizontal sieve shaker

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 Different Sieving Methods for Varying
Applications
• This method subjects the sample to a circular
horizontal movement. 
• Sieve diameters of 100 mm / 150 mm / 200
mm / 203 mm (8") / 305 (12") mm / 315 mm /
400 mm can be used to separate bulk samples
of up to 15 kg in a single run. 45 µm to 63 mm
is the measuring range.

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 Different Sieving Methods for Varying
Applications
• Tap sieving

Principle of tap sieving Tap sieve shaker

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 Different Sieving Methods for Varying
Applications
• In the tap sieving process, a vertical tapping
motion superimposes a circular horizontal
movement
• The previous fig of tap sieve shaker, can accept
up to 7 sieves with diameters of 203 mm (8”)
or 200 mm and a maximum sample load of 3
kg. 

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 Different Sieving Methods for Varying
Applications
• Air jet sieving

Air jet sieving machine

Principle of air jet sieving

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 Different Sieving Methods for Varying
Applications
• In order to achieve a sieve cut by air jet sieving,
only a single sieve is used rather than a stack of
sieves, and the sieve itself is not put into motion.
• Low pressure inside the sieve chamber is
generated by an industrial vacuum cleaner and
the sucked-in air escapes with high speed from
the rotating slit nozzle placed below the sieve
and disperses the particles which can be
subsequently compared to the sieve apertures.

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 Efficiency of screening
• The efficiency of screening is defined as
• The ratio of the mass of material which passes the screen to that
which is capable of passing.
• This will differ according to the size of the material.
• If assumed that the rate of passage of particles of a
given size through the screen is proportional to the
number or mass of particles of that size on the screen
at any instant.
• Thus, if w is the mass of particles of a particular size
on the screen at a time t, then:
– dw /dt = −kw

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• where k is a constant for a given size and shape of
particle and for a given screen.
• Thus, the mass of particles (w1 − w2) passing the
screen in time t is given by:
» ln (w2 /w1) = −kt or:
» w2 = w1 e−kt
• If the screen contains a large proportion of material just
a little larger than the maximum size of particle which
will pass, its capacity is considerably reduced.
• Screening is generally continued either for a
predetermined time or until the rate of screening falls
off to a certain fixed value.

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