Energy consumption of two-stage fine grinding of Douglas …
The hammer mill has 32 pieces of swing hammer of 6.4 × 50.8 × 120 mm on a 610-mm diameter rotor. The tip of the hammers reaches a linear speed of 115 m/s. The air flow rate of the blower is 63 m 3 /min. The total rated power of the hammer mill circuit was 42 kW (Table 1). Several different sized screens were used to investigate their effect ...