NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING

FACULTY OF MINING, GEOLOGICAL AND

METALLURGICAL ENGINEERING

METALLURGICAL ENGINEERING SPECIALTY

CALCULATION MEMORY

GRINDING

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................3
2. REFERENCE..................................................................................................................3
3. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PROCESS..................................................................3
4. CONCLUSIONS.............................................................................................................4
5. DIMENSIONS AND CONSUMPTION CALCULATION OF GRINDING...................4
5.1. General design criteria.............................................................................................4
5.2. Calculation basis.....................................................................................................5
5.3. Calculating the size and power consumption initial.................................................6
5.4. Calculating the size and power consumption of final, using the F3 factor...............7
6. BIBLIOGRAPHY...........................................................................................................7
1. INTRODUCTION
This document corresponds to the calculation memory sizing mills that are part
of the ore comminution circuit having a rated capacity of 2000 TPD, which
feeds the flotation circuit Pb-Cu-Zn. It will be established a circuit suitable for
grinding mineral that is on par with the metallurgical mining industry in order
to gauge the mills.

When preparing the document, the calculation data as various sizes of products
and circulating load is assumed.

2. REFERENCE
The following codes to the information source as a reference source of each
data indicated are used.

Table 1. Reference codes.

COD DESCRIPTION
E
A Information or criteria provided by the company that requires
service
B practical industry standards
C Data engineering manuals
D Designer criteria
E Calculation criteria

3. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PROCESS

The product of crushing circuit feeds the primary ball mill with 8461 tons per
hour in open circuit, this product is sent to a cyclone where the underflow feeds
a secondary ball mill, while the overflow is the final product of milling circuit
and is directed to the flotation circuit.

Sizing primary and secondary ball mills is based on the Bond method and
parameter values that were considered in the calculation are part of a
previously conducted benchmarking and experience designer.
4. CONCLUSIONS
1. The grinding circuit was established as seen in figure 1:
2. A primary ball mill 9 x 13 that needs a power of 704 HP to cope with

Figure 1. Grinding circuit diagram.

solids flow of 8461 ton / h was sized.
3. A secondary ball mill 10 x 14 that needs a power of 876 HP to cope with
solids flow of 211.53 ton / h according to the mass balance made was
sized.

5. DIMENSIONS AND CONSUMPTION CALCULATION OF

GRINDING
5.1. General design criteria
This chapter describes the basis for calculating the dimensioning of the primary
and secondary mills are detailed.

Then the design criteria are summarized below.

Table 2. General design criteria.

Code Description Nominal Design value

value
TO Capacity (TPD) 2000 2150.54
D √ Availability 100% 93%
√ Humidity 5.58% 5.58%
Program Operation
TO √ hours per day 24 24
AN √ days per year 365 339
D
TO Wi balls (kw-hr / ton) 13.08 13.08
D F100 (3/8 ") 9525.00 um 9525.00 um
D F80 6096.00 um 6096.00 um
D P80 487.68 um 487.68 um
D Critical speed desired 75.00 75.00
D Load level
molturante 45.00 45.00
D L/D 1.40 1.40
B motor efficiency 95.00 95.00
 D Gamma (lb / ft3) 290 290
D closed
Type crushing closed circuit circuit
TO Grinding type wet Wet

5.2. Calculation basis

The bases used for calculating size and power consumption of the primary and
secondary mills were elaborated by using the Bond method (Quiroz, I. (1986).
Operaciones unitarias en procesamiento de minerales.)

1 1
W =10∗Wi( − )
√ P 80 √ F 80

This equation needs some correction factors:

EF1: Correction factor for dry grinding bars and balls.

EF2: Correction factor for open circuit ball mill.

EF3: Correction factor diameter rods and balls.

EF4: Factor by feeding oversized bars and balls (F80> fo)

EF5: Fineness factor for ball mills (less than 74um).

EF6: Factor reduction rate rod mill (Rro > Rr).

Which they were taken for primary milling:

Table 3. Correction coefficients for the primary stage.

Cod Facto Value

e r
C EF1 1
C EF2 1.2
EF3 Later
C EF4 1.21
Fo 3,987.75
rr 12.5
EF5 Not
used
C EF6 1.04
Rro 15
 And for secondary grinding:
Table 4. Correction coefficients for the secondary stage.

Cod Facto Value

e r
C EF1 1
C EF2 1.2
EF3 Later
C EF4 0.06
Fo 3,987.75
rr 4.558
EF5 Not
used
EF6 Not
used
RRO 15

Bond method in combination with the equation of the weight of balls and Allis
Chalmers is:

POT
KWr=
peso de bolas

Ball weight equation (Quiroz, I. (1986). Operaciones unitarias en

procesamiento de minerales.)

POTENCIA TOTAL
D 3.3=
0.1
(
1.7∗10−5∗( 3.2−3∗Vp )∗ 1− 9−10∗Cs ∗Cs∗Vp∗δ∗β
2 )

5.3. Calculating the size and power consumption initial.

Table 5. Dimensions of the mills.

Code Stage Type Dimensions required

Mill power
(HP)
E Primary Ball 9.39 x 1315 726.39
mill
E Secondary Ball 10.07 x 915.17
 mil 14.09 ¨

5.4. Calculating the size and power consumption of final, using the
F3 factor.
Table 6. Dimensions mills with F3 factor.

Code Stage Type Dimensions required

Mill power
(HP)
E Primary Ball 9.3 x 13.03 704.25
mill
E Secondary Ball 9.93 x 13.91 875.75
mill ¨

6. BIBLIOGRAPHY
 Metso Minerals. Crushing and Screening Handbook. 260 pp.
 Bottlenose, A., Bhappu, R. 1980. Mineral processing and plant design.
Volume 1.
 Quiroz, I. 2016. Ingeniería metalúrgica. 208 pp.