DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF BALL MILL INLET CHUTE FOR ROLLER PRESS CIRCUIT IN CEMENT INDUSTRY

D. Sankar prasath, N.Venkatesh

Abstract: The present work aims to design and analysis of Ball mill inlet chute along with the truck assembly for Roller press circuit UMS (Unidan Mill S) type FLS Ball mill which are used in the Cement industry for grinding clinker material. The present mill inlet chute can be used for the two compartment ball mills only in which primary and finish grinding both are takes place. It may be a closed or open circuit grinding systems. In recent days, the Ball mill grinding systems are used with the Roller press and it is developing very fastly. The primary grinding is done by the Roller press and finish grinding takes place in Ball mill. Because of this, we can increase the Ball mill capacity as well as the Cement production. Also the feed materials which are coming from roller press to the ball mill are powdery form instead of Clinker material. The feed chute for this application requires more area to direct the material and more air allowing area to achieve the required air flow inside the mill to transmit the grounded material. The replacement of the liner plates/mill components and access during maintenance is difficult in the present UMS mills since the mill inlet is fixed with the foundation .This can be avoided by implementing the new designed movable truck assembly at inlet chute. In this design, the Inlet chute will be fixed on the movable truck assembly which can be easily removable along with chute during the maintenance and liner plate replacement. The main objective of this project is to identify and design the suitable inlet chute for the BM+RP mill circuit with feed chute truck assembly. The designed chutes flow characteristics will be analyzed by using DEM software. For designing and analyzing the Roller press circuit Ball mill chute, UMS 4.6m diameter, RP+BM (Roller press + Ball Mill) Circuit Cement Ball mill feed materials and its properties are taken

Keywords: ball mill, roller press, cement industry

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0323046