In this paper we develop a Model Predictive Controller (MPC) for regulation of a cement mill circuit. The MPC uses soft constraints (soft MPC) to robustly address the large uncertainties present in models that can be identified for cement mill circuits. The uncertainties in the linear predictive model of the cement mill circuit stems from large variations and heterogeneities in the feed materia...

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...

Neuromodulation is well known to provide plasticity in pattern generating circuits, but few details are available concerning modulation of motor pattern coordination. We are using the crustacean stomatogastric nervous system to examine how co-expressed rhythms are modulated to regulate frequency and maintain coordination. The system produces two related motor patterns, the gastric mill rhythm t...

Anatase-to-rutile phase transformation was studied in milled and unmilled samples. Ball milling was carried out in two types of ball mills, planetary and tumbler, with a ball-to-powder ratio of 40:1 over 2-48 hours. First, the unmilled samples &#10were heated in the furnace at various temperatures for different periods of time. The results revealed that the anatase-to-rutile transformation comp...

A deeper understanding of the milling operation of ball mills helps mineral processing engineers to control and optimize them, and therefore, reduce their consuming power. In this work, the milling operation of ball mills is investigated using two methods, i.e. DEM and combined DEM-SPH. First, a pilot scale ball mill with no lifter is simulated by both methods. Then another pilot scale ball mil...

Synaptic feedback from rhythmically active neuronal circuits commonly causes their descending inputs to exhibit the rhythmic activity pattern generated by that circuit. In most cases, however, the function of this rhythmic feedback is unknown. In fact, generally these inputs can still activate the target circuit when driven in a tonic activity pattern. We are using the crab stomatogastric nervo...

Anatase-to-rutile phase transformation was studied in milled and unmilled samples. Ball milling was carried out in two types of ball mills, planetary and tumbler, with a ball-to-powder ratio of 40:1 over 2-48 hours. First, the unmilled samples were heated in the furnace at various temperatures for different periods of time. The results revealed that the anatase-to-rutile transformation comple...

Reliable measurements of ball mill load parameters and reorganization of the operating statuses are the key factors for saving energy and optimization control. Empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and partial least squares (PLS) are used to analyze shell vibration signal and monitor mill load parameters of ball mill. The shell vibration signal is decomposed into several intrinsic mode functions (...