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The document is a tutorial on size reduction of solids in chemical engineering, detailing various calculations related to energy consumption and power requirements for different crushing scenarios. It includes problems involving Rittinger’s and Kick’s laws, as well as specific crusher configurations and material properties. The tutorial aims to provide practical applications of size reduction principles in engineering contexts.

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CHPL332 Size Reduction of Solids - Tutorials(4)

The document is a tutorial on size reduction of solids in chemical engineering, detailing various calculations related to energy consumption and power requirements for different crushing scenarios. It includes problems involving Rittinger’s and Kick’s laws, as well as specific crusher configurations and material properties. The tutorial aims to provide practical applications of size reduction principles in engineering contexts.

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Tutorial: Size Reduction of Solids

1. A material is crushed in a Blake jaw crusher such that the average size of particle is reduced
from 50 mm to 10 mm with a consumption of energy at the rate of 13.0 kW/(kg/s). What
will be the consumption of energy needed to crush the same material of average size 75
mm to an average size of 25 mm:

a) Assuming Rittinger’s law applies?


b) Assuming Kick’s law applies?

Which of these results would be regarded as being more reliable and why?

2. A certain crusher accepts feed of rock having a volume-surface mean diameter of 19 mm


and discharges a product of volume-surface of 5 mm. The power required to crush 12
tons/hr is 6.90 kW. What should be the power consumption if the capacity is reduced to 10
tons/hr and the volume-surface mean diameter to 3.8 mm? The mechanical efficiency
remains unchanged.

3. A crusher was used to crush a material whose compressive strength was 22.5 MN/m2. The
size of the feed was minus 50 mm, plus 40 mm, and the energy required was 13.0 kJ/kg.
The screen analysis of the product was as follows:

Size of aperture (mm) Percent of product

Through 6.00 100


On 4.00 26
On 2.00 18
On 0.75 23
On 0.50 8
On 0.25 17
On 0.125 3
Through 0.125 5

What would be the power required to crush 1 kg/s of a material of compressive strength 45
MN/m2 from a feed minus 45 mm, plus 40 mm to a product of average size 0.50 mm?

4. A pair of rolls is to take a feed equivalent to spheres 38 mm in diameter and crush them to
spheres having a diameter of 12.7 mm. If the coefficient of friction is 0.29, what should be
the diameter of the rolls?
5. A crusher in reducing limestone of crushing strength 70 MN/m2 from 6 mm diameter
average size to 0.1 mm diameter average size requires 9 kW. The same machine is used to
crush dolomite at the same rate of output from 6 mm diameter average size to a product
which consists of 20% with an average diameter of 0.25 mm, 60% with an average diameter
of 0.125 mm, the balance having an average diameter of 0.085 mm. Estimate the power
required to drive the crusher, assuming that the crushing strength of the dolomite is 100
MN/m2 and that crushing follows Rittinger’s law.

6. A 3 kW power has to be supplied to a machine crushing material at the rate of 0.3 kg/s
from 12.5 mm cubes to a product having the following sizes: 80% 3.175 mm, 10% 2.5 mm
and 10% 2.25 mm.

What would be the power which would have to be supplied to this machine to crush 0.3
kg/s of the same material from 7.5 mm cube to 2.0 mm cube?

7. If crushing rolls 1 m in diameter are set so that the crushing surfaces are 12.5 mm apart and
the angle of nip is 310, what is the maximum size of particle which should be fed to the
rolls?

If the actual capacity of the machine is 12% of the theoretical, calculate the throughput in
kg/s when running at 2.0 Hz if the working face of the rolls is 0.4 m long and the density
of the feed is 2500 kg/m3

8. A crushing mill reduces limestone from a mean particle size of 45 mm to a product:

Size (mm) Percent

12.5 0.5
7.5 7.5
5.0 45.0
2.5 19.0
1.5 16.0
0.75 8.0
0.40 3.0
0.20 1.0

and in so doing requires 21 kJ/kg of material crushed. Calculate the power required to crush
the same material at the same rate, from a feed having a mean size of 25 mm to a product
with a mean size of 1 mm.

9. A ball mill 1.2 m in diameter is being run at 0.80 Hz and it is found that the mill is not
working satisfactorily. Should any modification in the condition of operation be suggested?

10. In a ball mill of diameter 2000 mm, 100 mm diameter steel balls are being used for
grinding. Presently, for the material being ground, the mill is run at 18 rpm. At what speed
will the mill have to be run if the 100 mm balls are replaced by 50 mm balls, all the other
conditions remaining the same?

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