Around 40% of electricity in the UK is currently generated by coal-fired power stations. Coal-fired power stations nowadays are required to operate more flexibly with more varied coal specifications and regularly use coal with higher volatile contents and biomass materials; this can increase the risks of pressurisation or fires in milling plants. The power stations are also obliged to vary thei...

This paper contains data and supporting information of and complementary to the research article entitled "Effect of jar shape on high-energy planetary ball milling efficiency: simulations and experiments" (Broseghini et al.,) [1]. Calcium fluoride (CaF2) was ground using two jars of different shape (cylindrical and half-moon) installed on a planetary ball-mill, exploring different operating co...

The ball-mill-based mechanochemical activation of metallic copper powder facilitates solvent-free alkyne-azide click reactions (CuAAC). All parameters that affect reaction rate (i.e., milling time, revolutions/min, size and milling ball number) have been optimized. This new, efficient, facile and eco-friendly procedure has been tested on a number of different substrates and in all cases afforde...

Mill load (ML) estimation plays a major role in improving the grinding production rate (GPR) and the product quality of the grinding process. The ML parameters, such as mineral to ball volume ratio (MBVR), pulp density (PD) and charge volume ratio (CVR), reflect the load inside the ball mill accurately. The relative amplitudes of the high-dimensional frequency spectrum of shell vibration signal...

In thepresentwork,we investigate the destruction efficiency of hexachlorobenzene (HCB) by milling with various reagents in a planetary ball mill under different milling conditions. Under the same conditions of mill rotary rate and charge ratio, the mixture of magnesium powder and aluminum oxide (Mg/Al2O3) was found best in promoting the destruction of HCB, which can be completed destroyed after...

Large macrocycles containing imine and borasiloxane links are obtained in polycondensation reactions of 4-formylbenzeneboronic acid, t-Bu(2)Si(OH)(2), and diamines. The multicomponent reactions can be performed in solution or--advantageously--by mechanochemical syntheses in a ball mill.

RTSTM and TMP mill case studies were conducted, utilizing FiberMaxXTM, FiberMaxX-EXTM, and VPZTM refiner plate patterns, to reduce refining energy, improve pulp quality and increase production rates depending upon the specific application. In the studies the refiner plate designs selected provided from 200 to 280 kwh/odmt energy reduction. In addition pulp strengths were either maintained or im...

The review focuses on applications of artificial neural networks (ANNs) in various subsystems of pulp and paper making processes. Some applications are pertinent to modeling of pulping, bleaching and energy conservation process while others are related to control of refining, washing of brown stock, combustion of black liquor, lime kiln operation, grade changes and quality control. A general al...

One of the factors which are usually difficult to be measured in mills is the grindability and distribution of feed under real situation and in a short time. In the condition of achieving a fast and convenient way to determine these parameters, the proper relationship between energy, hardness and particle size distribution can be obtained. Feed hardness is one of the most important factors in g...

the equations governing the motion of steel balls and their impact onto shell liners in industrial semi-autogenous grinding (sag) mills are derived in full details by the authors and are used in order to determine the effective design variables for optimizing the working conditions of the mill and to avoid severe impacts which lead to the breakage of sag mill shell liners. these design variable...