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GRINDERS
ROLLER MILLS
Principal: Material is crushed by the application of stress. Stress is applied by rotating heavy wheels,mullers or rollers Variants: Multiple smooth rollers or corrugated, ribbed, or saw-toothed rollers can provide cutting action
MECHANISME
Two parallel rolls rotate towards one another at high speeds, say 400 3000rpm. Material is gravity fed between the parallel rolls and as it enters the nip of the rollers, it experiences both crushing and shearing forces that grind the particle into smaller pieces. Roll surfaces can be either corrugated or smooth on the surface, depending on the need, and typically a speed differential between the rolls, ranging from 1:1 to 3:1, is necessary.
Most roller mills are compromised of multiple grinding sections vertically stacked on top of one another and material falls by gravity from one pair of rollers to the next The number of section determined by the material properties and the amount of reduction required to achieve the desired grind size. corrugations, speed ratio between the rolls, and the gap between the grinding rolls are all precisely engineered for each product. The objective is to reduce the material in size to a narrow particle size distribution and with few unwanted fines
Colloid mill: Colloid mill works on the principle of shearing. The colloid mill is useful for milling, dispersing, homogenizing and breaking down of agglomerates in the manufacture of food pastes, emulsions, coatings, ointments, creams, pulps, grease etc. The main function of the colloid mill is to ensure a breakdown of agglomerates or in the case of emulsions to produce droplets of fine size around 1 micron.
The material to be ground is added so that it is slightly more than fills the voids between the pellets. The shell is rotated at a speed which will cause the pellets to cascade, thus reducing particle sizes by impact. It has been proposed that in the plastics industry the term ball mill be reserved for metallic grinding media, and the term pebble mill for non-metallic grinding media.