ATTRITION MILL

they are ine enough to exit from the

Attrition Mill - Device for mechanically reducing gap at the edges of the disc
solid particle size ● Discharge Vessel - Where the crushed
● Reduce particle size by intense and ground material is collected after
agitation of a slurry of material being it exits the grinding zone
milled and the coarse milling media Types
● Pulverize materials such as grains, 1. Single Disc Attrition Mill
spices, sand, plastics, waxes, polymers 2. Double Disc Attrition Mill
and other ibrous materials by sliding, 3. Vibrating Disc Mill
scrubbing or rolling with a surface or General Features
with each other ● Generally used for soft solids
History ● Usually oriented in the horizontal axis,
● Originated from the hand lour mill sometimes vertical
● Similar to ancient Buhrstone mill: one of ● Product is very ine: powder
the oldest types of mill, with either ● Air is drawn to get the product
horizontal or vertical stones, used to ● Cooling is essential while operation
grind grains and hard materials Advantages and Disadvantages
● Developed by the US Bureau of Mines ● Advantages: high level of strength is
(early 1960s): effective for producing required for hard materials (like stone,
paper-coating clay from coarse kaolins etc.), have a relatively larger capacity,
(clay mineral) relatively quiet than other kinds of mills
Basic Parts ● Disadvantages: relatively expensive to
● Feed Hopper – where material is fed run and maintain, consume much more
○ storage container used to power than other shredding machines
dispense granular materials Applications
through the use of a chute to ● Agricultural Applications
restrict low, sometimes ● Food and Chemical Processing
assisted by mechanical ● Mining Operations
agitation ● Recycling Plants
● Grinding discs - crush materials by
attrition force at great speeds until