Influence of high-pressure grinding rolls on physical properties and impact breakage behavior of coarsely sized cement clinker

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2016-01-01

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Camalan, Mahmut
Onal, Mehmet Ali Recai

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High-pressure grinding rolls (HPGR) are widely used in cement clinker grinding prior to ball milling. The efficiency of HPGR was previously related to two capabilities: (a) efficient stressing mechanism and (b) weakening of particles which lead to finer product sizes after subsequent ball milling. This study aimed to investigate the influence of HPGR on the impact breakage behavior of coarsely sized cement clinker. Drop weight tests were conducted on three single-size samples from both feed and product streams of an industrial HPGR, so as to obtain impact breakage parameters: breakage probability and impact breakage functions. Radiographic, Vickers micro-hardness, BET, SEM, XRD, XRF, and image processing methods were utilized to explain the variations in impact breakage parameters. The product samples were found to have less porosity than feed samples but they contained HPGR-induced micro-cracks. Those cracks are believed to be responsible for lower hardness and higher breakage probability of product particles than of feed ones under impact. However, fragments generated from the product samples by drop weight tests were coarser than those generated from feed samples. That was due to elimination of pores by HPGR action. At excess energy levels, both samples were broken to same extent regardless of structural differences.

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Portland cement clinker, Impact breakage parameters, High-pressure grinding rolls, Drop weight test, Fragmentation

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/56882

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Department of Mining Engineering, Article