About the Bond_Mill Throughput Spreadsheet ...

Scope :
The Bond_Mill Throughput spreadsheet was designed to estimate the Grinding Capacity of a given mill of known
dimensions and operating conditions - Net Power Draw in particular - based on the traditional Bond's Law and the Hogg
& Fuersteneau Power Model (see Mill Power_Ball Mills spreadsheet for further details on such model).
Theoretical Framework :
Undoubtedly, the extensive work of Fred C. Bond ("The Third Theory of Comminution", AIME Trans.,Vol. 193, p. 484,
1952. Also in Mining Engineering, May 1952) has been widely recognized as a very significant contribution to a first
understanding of the operational response of conventional ball mills in various grinding circuits. His Third Theory or
"Law" of Comminution has become the most traditionally accepted framework for the evaluation of existing grinding
operations as well as the design of new installations :
E = 10 Wi (1/P801/2 1/F801/2)
where :
E
F80
P80
Wi

=
=
=
=

Specific Energy Consumption, kWh/ton ground.

80% passing size in the Fresh Ore Feed Stream, microns.
80% passing size in the Final Ground Product, microns.
Bond's Work Index, indicative of the hardness of the ore, kWh/ton.

The Bond's Law so allows, as a first approach, to estimate the energy demand (kWh) required to grind each ton of ore.
Such Specific Energy Consumption determines in turns the Capacity of the grinding section, by the expression :
M = P/E
where :
M
P

= Fresh Ore Throughput (not including Circulating Load), ton/hr.

= Net Mill Power Demand, kW.

Bond's Work Index may be estimated directly from operational data (whenever available) from back-calculation of the first
equation above. In such case is denoted as the Operational Work Index :
Wio = E / 10 (1/P801/2 1/F801/2)
Data Input :
All data required by the calculation routine must be defined in each corresponding unprotected white background cell of
the here attached Data File worksheet. Gray background cells contain the results of the corresponding formulas there
defined and are protected to avoid any accidental editing.

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(Version 2.0)
BOND'S LAW APPLICATION
Estimation of a Conventional Ball Mill Grinding Capacity

Remarks

Base Case Example

GRINDING TASK :
Ore Work Index, kWh/ton (metric)
Feed Size, F80, microns
Product Size, P80, microns
Total Plant Throughput, ton/hr

13.00
9795
150.0
835.30

Specific Energy, kWh/ton

Net Power Available, kW
Number of Mills for the Task
Net kW / Mill

Mill
Power, kW
3348
0
536
3885
10.0
4316

Balls
Overfilling
Slurry
Net Total
% Losses
Gross Total

Mill Charge Weight, tons

Ball
Slurry
Charge
Interstitial
above Balls
296.48
47.48
0.00

Apparent
Density
ton/m3
5.395

MILL DIMENSIONS AND OPERATING CONDITIONS :

Eff. Diameter
ft
18.50

Eff. Length
ft
22.00
L/D
1.189

% Solids in the Mill

Ore Density, ton/m3
Slurry Density, ton/m3
Balls Density, ton/m3

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Mill Speed
% Critical
72.00
rpm
12.82
72.00
2.80
1.86
7.75

Charge
Filling,%
38.00

Balls
Interstitial
Filling,%
Slurry Filling,%
38.00
100.00

Charge
Volume,
m3
63.76

9.30
7769
2
3885

Lift
Angle, ()
35.00

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