Ore Crushing and grinding circuits
In a mineral processing plant individual pieces of comminution equipment are almost never used alone, but rather appropriate“stages” of size reduction are used in a plant to transform the material from the run-of-mine size to the final product size and then go to beneficiation stage such as flotation machine , gravity machine, magnetic equipment etc . The appropriate selection of equipment on a stage-by-stage basis is determined by feed size, ore type, tonnage, and final product size. Table 1 lists the size ranges within which various comminution methods operate most efficiently. The fact that the inherent efficiency of some devices is higher than others causes circuit designers to select equipment that produces a favorable overall efficiency. Table 1. Normal size range and approximate energy efficiencies for various devices In addition to taking into account inherent device efficiency in circuit design, the use of interstage size separation equipment will be shown in this ...