Res. Agr. Eng., 2013, 59(3):98-104 | DOI: 10.17221/28/2012-RAE

Disintegration process in disc crushersOriginal Paper

P. Vaculík, J. Maloun, L. Chládek, M. Přikryl

Department of Technological Equipment of Buildings, Faculty of Engineering, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

Grinding or crushing hard raw materials is usually a primary operation which precedes the follow-up technological processes in a number of industrial sectors. A great variety of machines using different principles of fragmentation are employed in the technology of pulverization. The food industry uses roller mills, in which the main process is the shear grinding. In the animal feed industry impact machines known as hammer mills are often used. In recent years, mills have been employed that use their frontal edges for grinding or crushing during the rotation of one of two adjacent discs. The modern design disc machines used for grinding grain have resulted from long development and their operation has a relatively low noise level with reduced dust. The separation process that occurs in the gap between the active edges of the discs can be described as shear grinding and is currently the subject of attention which is focused on the specific energy consumption and fractional composition of the product of grinding.

Keywords: grinding process; grinding discs; trajectory of grist fragments; logarithmic spiral

Published: September 30, 2013  Show citation