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This document contains 13 questions regarding minerals engineering and comminution processes. The questions cover topics like sieve analysis, calculating mean particle size, determining Bond Work Index values, selection of comminution equipment, efficiency calculations for screens, sizing crushers, and modifying operating conditions of ball mills. Sample calculations are provided for determining energy requirements, throughput, power needs, and Bond Work Index values based on experimental grinding test data.

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This document contains 13 questions regarding minerals engineering and comminution processes. The questions cover topics like sieve analysis, calculating mean particle size, determining Bond Work Index values, selection of comminution equipment, efficiency calculations for screens, sizing crushers, and modifying operating conditions of ball mills. Sample calculations are provided for determining energy requirements, throughput, power needs, and Bond Work Index values based on experimental grinding test data.

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NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING


TCE 3103 MINERALS ENGINEERING 1A
TUTORIAL 02 07/11/2017

Qn.1
A sieve analysis was conducted on a copper ore flotation feed and the following results were obtained:
Size (m) Weight (g)
+425 17
-425+300 31
-300+212 24
-212+150 19
-150+106 15
-106+75 12
-75 42

a) What is the mass median size (m)?


b) What is the estimated percentage of material in the -75+37 m range?

Qn. 2
A sieve analysis was carried out on an ore. The results were as follows:
Size (m) Weight (g)
+600 42.2
-600+300 40.0
-300+150 26.4
-150+75 17.4
-75 33.9

a) What is the mass median size (m)?


b) What is the estimated percentage of material in the -75+37 m range?
c) What is the 80% passing size?

Qn.3
A crusher was used to crush a material with a compressive strength of 22.5 MN/m2.
The size of the feed was minus 50 mm, plus 40 mm and the power required was
13.0 kW/(kg/s). The screen analysis of the product was:

Size (4m) Weight (%)


+4 26
-4+2 18
-2+0.75 23
-0.75+0.5 8
-0.5+0.25 17
-0.25+0.125 3
-0.125 5
What is the mean size of the product?

Qn.4
Describe and explain in detail how the following properties affect the process of mineral liberation;
a) Grain size
b) Type of intergrowth
c) Cohesion within and between grains
d) Mineral association and amounts present
e) Relative milling properties

Qn.5
Determine the energy required for secondary crushing of the Mtshinda ore from 50 mm to 2.5 mm
assuming;
(i) Rittingers law
(ii) Kicks law

Note: the process engineer has in his records that preliminary crushing experiments performed on the
ore showed that crushing 50 mm particles of the ore to 5mm required an average of 48 kJ/kg.

Qn.6
A crushing mill reduces limestone from a mean particle size of 45 mm to a product of mean particle size
7.78 mm and in so doing requires 21 kJ/kg of material crushed. Calculate the power required to crush
the same material at the same rate, from a feed having a mean size of 25 mm to a product with a
mean size of 1.0 mm.
(i) assumingRittingers law applies?
(ii) assuming Kicks law applies?
Which of these results would be regarded as more reliable and why?

Qn.7
A crusher in reducing dolomite of crushing strength 100MN/m 2 from an average diameter of 6mm to
0.1mm average diameter requires 9KW of energy. The same crusher is used to crush limestone at the
same rate of output from 6mm average diameter to a product with average diameter of 0.5mm.
Estimate the power required to drive the crusher? Limestone has a crushing strength of 70MN/m.

Qn.8
The Bond work index for a mesh-of-grind of 200mesh for a rock consisting mainly of quartz is 17.5
kWh/ton. How much power is needed to reduce the material in a wet-grinding ball mill from an 80
percent passing size of 1100 m to an 80 percent passing size of 80 m.

Qn.9
What are the key factors to consider when selecting comminution equipment?
Qn.10
Show from first principles that the equation for the overall efficiency of a
screen is given by;


E=
(1 )

where;
o fraction of material above the cut point size in the overflow
f fraction of material above the cutpoint size in the feed

Qn.11
If crushing rolls 1 m in diameter are set so that the crushing surfaces are 12.5 mm apart and the angle of
nip is 31o, what is the maximum size of particle which should be fed to the rolls? If the actual capacity of
the machine is 20 per cent of the theoretical, calculate the throughput in kg/s when running at 2.0 Hz if
the working face of the rolls is 0.4 m long and the density of the feed is 2500 kg/m3.

Qn.12
A study was conducted to determine the bond work index for a Birnin-Gwari iron ore
from Northern Nigeria using the modified Bonds method. Samples of iron ore were
collected and granite was used as a reference ore. The bond work index for the reference
ore (granite) is 15.13 KWh/s ton. The following results were obtained from the tests;

Granite Feed Granite Product

Sieve Size Range (m) Weight retained (g) Sieve Size Range (m) Weight retained (g)

+ 355 3.94 + 355 0.1

- 355 + 250 3.68 - 355 + 250 0.0

- 250 + 180 3.94 - 250 + 180 0.1

- 180 + 125 3.64 - 180 + 125 3.2

- 125 + 90 5.44 - 125 + 90 13.1

- 90 + 63 26.94 - 90 + 63 27.4

- 63 52.46 - 63 56.1
Iron ore feed Iron ore product

Sieve Size Range (m) Weight retained (g) Sieve Size Range (m) Weight retained (g)

+ 355 2.65 + 355 0.0

- 355 + 250 2.53 - 355 + 250 0.0

- 250 + 180 2.45 - 250 + 180 0.1

- 180 + 125 2.45 - 180 + 125 1.1

- 125 + 90 27.46 - 125 + 90 28.43

- 90 + 63 36.94 - 90 + 63 19.24

- 63 25.5 - 63 51.13

Using the given results, calculate the bond work index for the iron ore.

Qn.13
A ball mill 1.2m in diameter is being run at 0.80Hz and it is found that the mill is not working
satisfactorily. Should any modification in the conditions of operation be suggested?

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