Modifying blasting practices to achieve a more suitable mill feed size – which varies according to the crushing/grinding circuit – can achieve up to a 30% increase in throughput. Following an initial benchmarking of an operation’s practices, SRK can advise on how value-added blasting will deliver improvements in both mill capacity and overall consistency of performance. SRK employs modelling to...

Nadezhda V. Kovalevskaya, Yegor D. Smurnyy, Vladimir I. Polshakov, Berry Birdsall, Alan F. Bradbury, Tom Frenkiel & James Feeney* Center for Drug Chemistry, 119815 Moscow, Russia; Center for Magnetic Tomography and Spectroscopy, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia; Division of Molecular Structure, National Institute for Medical Research, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, London...

The fault parameters of ball mill was unnoticed among large amount of data, According to the phenomenon, it put forward a fault diagnosis method of rough set to optimize neural network, and by using width algorithm, so that the fault sample set of ball mill had been processed with the discrete way. Firstly, it builded a diagnosis model of rough set-neural network, the diagnosis model had practi...

Various aspects affecting the steam economy of a raw sugar mill are discussed. Process and prime mover steam requirements are evaluated for a new 600 ton canelhour factory currently under construction at Felixton, and options for achieving a level of steam economy where fibre can be supplied to a downstream paper mill with the appropriate fuel economy are evaluated. The necessity to allow for f...

This study is the first comprehensive investigation of enzyme-producing bacteria isolated from four sludge samples (primary, secondary, press and machine) collected in a Kraft paper mill. Overall, 41 strains encompassing 11 different genera were identified by 16S rRNA gene analysis and biochemical testing. Both biodiversity and enzymatic activities were correlated with sludge composition. Press...

This paper deals with a formal method for the study of the backward reachability analysis applied on Colored Petri Nets (CPN). The proposed method proceeds in two steps : 1) it translates CPN to terms of the Multiplicative Intuitionistic Linear Logic (MILL); 2) it proves sequents by constructing proof trees. The translation from CPN to MILL must respect some properties such as the semantic asso...

There is currently much interest in producing biofuel-based transportation fuels. However, since biofuel is a limited renewable resource, it is important to assess whether such fuels are both produced and used as efficiently as possible. Efficient production can be achieved in the future by integrated biorefinery operations at pulp mill sites, co-producing pulp and biofuel-based energy products...

A case study of a cutting stock problem in an aluminium mill is presented. Orders have release dates, due dates, a total length and may be delivered in any number of coils within rather large length intervals. A variety of diierent cutting machines is available, hierarchical cuts may be necessary to produce small widths. The mill is capable of producing custom{made coils within certain bounds b...

Two laboratory workers, who spent a considerable time each day handling grain infested by the grain weevil (Sitophilus granarius), developed allergic responses to this insect varying from rhinitis and pruritus to marked asthma. These findings suggested that weevil protein present in mill dust could result in sensitization in those exposed continuously. A pilot study was therefore undertaken on ...

In this study we analyse economic policy support for biofuels, with the aim to determine the amount of support necessary to make investments in a gasification based biorefinery producing DME (dimethyl ether) profitable for a pulp and paper mill. As a case the integrated Swedish pulp and paper mill of Billerud Karlsborg is studied, using mixed integer linear programming and different future ener...