The new Aitik autogenous grinding (AG) milling circuit was based on the successful original milling plant at Aitik, with a focus on low life-of-mine operating costs. At the heart of this is eliminating steel grinding media, maximizing the use of gravity flow, and using spiral classifiersinstead of hydrocyclones. The two 22.5 MW AG mills, 11.6 metres (m) (38 feet [ft]) …
Get PriceIn hard-rock applications the designer may favour a design that incorporates more crushing upstream of an HPGR (high-pressure grinding roll) circuit for energy efficiency. In cases where there are a lot of clays present or there is high moisture, an AG (autogenous grinding) or SAG (semi-autogenous grinding) mill may be appropriate.
Get PriceThe difficulties associated with slurry transportation in autogenous (ag) and semi-autogenous (sag) grinding mills have become more apparent in recent years with the increasing trend to build larger diameter mills for grinding high tonnages. This is particularly noticeable when ag/sag mills are run in closed circuit with classifiers such as fine screens/cyclones.
Get PriceIn most cases AG mills are high aspect mills. The introduction and subsequent ascendancy of AG and SAG milling for comminution circuits has led to many economic advantages, from high processing capacity, energy efficiency, lower investment and maintenance cost (Nunez F and Silva D, 2011).
Get Price@article{osti_901637, title = {Improving Energy Efficiency Via Optimized Charge Motion and Slurry Flow in Plant Scale Sag Mills}, author = {Rajamani, Raj K and Delgadillo, Jose Angel}, abstractNote = {A research team from the University of Utah is working to make inroads into saving energy in these SAG mills. In 2003, Industries of the Future Program of the …
Get Priceunits kWh/t and is the energy applied during impact breakage. As the impact energy is varied, so does the t 10. Higher impact energies produce higher values of t 10, which is reflected in products with finer size distributions. The A and b parameters, in conjunction with equation 1, are used in AG/SAG mill modelling for
Get Pricegrinding mill. Material transport plays a significant role on efficiency of horizontal grinding mills. The magnitude of benefits that can be achieved with efficient material transport in AG/SAG mills has been demonstrated in a Greenfield milling operation at Mirabela Mineração's SantaRita Nickel operation in Brazil.
Get Price@article{osti_861643, title = {IMPROVING ENERGY EFFICIENCY VIA OPTIMIZED CHARGE MOTION AND SLURRY FLOW IN PLANT SCALE SAG MILLS}, author = {Rajamani, Raj K and Latchireddi, Sanjeeva and Prathy, Sravan K and Patra, Trilokyanath}, abstractNote = {The U.S. mining industry operates approximately 80 semi-autogenesis grinding mills (SAG) …
Get PriceWe also investigated the nature of the comminution process within AG vs. SAG mill, in order to explain the observed differences in energy utilisation efficiency, between two types of milling. All experiments were performed using a laboratory scale mill of 1.19 m diameter and 0.31 m length, equipped with 14 square section lifters of height 40 mm.
Get PriceThe apparent inefficiency of SAG mills when using Bond analysis is widely understood to be due to the difference in the slopes of the size distributions. In contrast, when the SSE75 was calculated, it showed the SAG mill consumed 20% less energy to produce final product material than the ball mill. Since the aim of a comminution circuit is to ...
Get Pricemill and AG/SAG mill efficiency is an artefact of Bond's implicit assumption that the particle size distributions can be defined by one point, the 80% passing size. In fact, Bond noted that this convenient assumption was valid only in cases where the cumulative particle
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Get Priceor predict AG/SAG mill performance. The same test procedure also provides ore-type characterisation for JKSimMet crusher modelling. The drop weight tester breaks rocks in five size fractions (from 13.2 to 63 mm) at three energy levels. It simply involves dropping a weight from a predetermined height onto the rock so that it breaks.
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Get PriceImproving Energy Efficiency in SAG Mills Pilot-Scale SAG Mill Facility Will Help to Optimize Charge Motion and Slurry Flow in Plant-Scale SAG Mills - Reducing Energy Consumption The U.S. mining industry operates approximately 80 semi-autogenous grinding mills (SAG) throughout the United States. Both mine and mill site variables determine SAG ...
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