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Good Steel Ball Is Vital for Improving Working Efficiency of Ball Mill

Add Time:20/01/2014

For ore dressing plant, the working efficiency of ball mill directly affects economic benefits of ore beneficiation plant. Therefore, improving working efficiency of ball mill is essential for ore dressing plant. Working efficiency of ball mill is restricted by many factors, of which the steel ball that acts as the main grinding medium plays a key role. It's well known that the grinding operation of ball mill is done by collision and grinding between steel ball and materials. The steel ball is an important medium of ball mill. The experts of Hongxing Machinery which is a famous manufacturer of balling milling machine find that the selection of steel ball plays a vital role in working efficiency of ball mill. Hence, the steel ball is very significant in grinding operation, which is indispensable part of ball mills.

The quality of steel ball not only influences the overall productivity, but also the quality of ball mill. When selecting steel ball, there are two problems often neglected. The first problem is the hardness of steel ball. The steel ball is not the harder, the better. The increase of steel ball hardness can only be modest. If only considering the ball consumption, the harder the steel ball is, the lower the ball consumption is. However, for powder grinder mill, the productivity will increase with the increase of steel ball harness within certain limits. But when the hardness is over a certain range, it will have bad effect on productivity of powder crushing machine and reduce productivity. The density of steel ball is another problem which cannot be ignored, which is affected by three factors.

1. Influence of materials

The materials of balls are generally steel, cast iron, alloy steel, etc. Different materials have different density. Density of steel is higher than that of cast iron. While density of alloy steel is different according to difference of density and content of alloying elements.

2. Influence of manufacturing method of steel ball

The rolling or forging steel ball has compact structure, so, the density is high. The structure of cast steel ball, cast iron ball and cast alloy ball is not that compact and even including stomata, so, the density of these balls is smaller.

3. Influence of microstructure of steel ball

The density of martensite, austenite, bainite, ferrite and other different crystal structure is not the same.