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Mel725 40
Mel725 40
P M V Subbarao
Professor
Mechanical Engineering Department
• There are basically four different types of pulverizing mills which are
designed to reduce coal with a top particle size of about 50 mm to the
necessary particle size range.
• Ball&Tube Mill, Ball &Race Mill, Bowl Mill & Impact Mill
• Each type has a different grinding mechanism and different operating
characteristics.
• There are four unit operations going concurrently within the mill body,
coal drying, transport, classification and grinding.
• For coal pulverizers the capacity of a mill is normally specified as tonnes
output when grinding coal with a HGI of 50, with a particle size of 70%
less than 75 micron and 1 or 2 % greater than 300 micron and with a
moisture in coal of less than 10%.
• A few manufacturers specify 55 instead of 50 with respect to HGI..
• This standardization enables selection of an appropriate mill for a specific
duty.
Coal Mills
Typical Layout of Pulverizer Circuit
Schematic of typical coal pulverized system
A Inlet Duct;
B Bowl Orifice;
C Grinding Mill;
• The pulverized-coal classifier has the task of making a clean cut in the
pulverized-coal size distribution:
• returning the oversize particles to the mill for further grinding
• but allowing the "ready to burn" pulverized coal to be transported to the
burner.
• The mill's performance, its safety and also the efficiency of combustion
depend on a sufficiently selective operation of the mill classifier.
Classifiers
• The classification of solid particles according to their size in the spiral house of a
cyclone is illustrated by Figure.
• The particles can migrate toward the outer wall or the exit tube;
• From the force balance on a particle and knowing the path of the
gas in the cyclone, the radius rl can be determined, which will be
the limiting radius for the radial penetration of a particle of
diameter, .
Force Balance on Particles
• At values of r > rl, the centrifugal force, which is inversely
proportional to the third power of the radius, grows faster than
the radial component of the gas velocity, which is inversely
proportional to the radius.
• The limiting radius can be given as :
with
p V primaryair
2 *
x D
Where, * is a coefficient, analogous to coefficient of friction.
* air pf pg sin
2
pg 2
Fr
Settlement of Coal Particles in a Pipe