Table 10.
Wet media milling equipment design specifications supporting 12 tons annual production of IBU.
| Parameter | Unit | Qa | Parameter | Unit | Qa | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Planetary Ball Mill Design Specifications | Ball Milling Media | ||||||
| Disk rotation speed | Ns | rpm | 240 | Diameter | d_b | m | 0.008 |
| Bowl rotation speed | Nb | rpm | 250 | Number | Nbw | - | 5.385 |
| Radius of Sun disk | R | m | 0.3 | Volume | Vb | cm3 | 0.2680 |
| Mill jar diameter | d | m | 0.2118 | Weight | kg | 0.0015 | |
| Mill jar height | h | m | 0.1365 | Weight total | w | kg | 8.199 |
| Mill jar volume | V | cm3 | 4812.38 | IBU mass ratio | - | - | 38.55 |
| Process Parameters of Comminution | |||||||
| Weight of feed | m | kg | 0.2127 | Absolute velocity | Vb | m/s | 6.996 |
| Mechanical efficiency | - | - | 0.8 | Kinetic energy | Kb | joule/hit | 0.037 |
| Specification of Energy | Miscellaneous | ||||||
| Energy per Weight | E | J × h/g | 12,129 | Frequency | f | s−1 | 2.387 |
| Specific Power | - | kJ/kg | 43,666 | Total frequency | ftot | s−1 | 12,855.7 |
| - | - | - | - | Power consumption | P | Watt | 449.53 |
| - | - | - | - | Process time | t | h | 1 |