Development of Minerals Liberation Spectrum Simulator in Ball Mills

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1 M.Sc, Dept. of Mining Engineering, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mining Engineering, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran

Abstract

When comminution precedes mineral beneficiation processes, the liberation spectrum of the particles in a comminution process is of great importance. The calculation of the liberation spectrum in a continuous closed milling circuit is a vastly more difficult task. Here, a method has been incorporated into the CMCS simulation software to calculate the product size distribution and liberation spectrum in ball mills. The model requires a minimum amount of experimental data and is capable of calculating the detailed liberation spectrum. While, other existing methods account only for the completely liberated particles and a broad group of unliberated particles are not represented. An easy-to-use ball mill simulation environment has been developed and the results are compared with measured grinding data and previously existing simulators, particularly MODSIM, demonstrating firmly tested performance both in terms of accuracy and precision of obtained results.

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  • Receive Date: 31 October 2018
  • Revise Date: 18 March 2019
  • Accept Date: 07 March 2019

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