ANNUAL REVIEW

PRESENTATION

TOPIC:-Introduction to vertical roller mill

production department

Under kind supervision By-

of:- UTKARSH KATIYAR
MR. P.S PARIHAR SIR 25244
G.E.T
Introduction to the Vertical
roller mill and its production
optimization
 Vertical roller
mill
• Vertical roller mill is a type of grinder used to grind materials 
into extremely fine powder for use in mineral dressing processes, 
paints, pyrotechnics, cements and ceramics. 

• It is an energy efficient alternative for a ball mill.
• Vertical roller mill has many different forms, but it works 
basically the same.

• All of these forms of machine come with a roller (or the 
equivalent of roller grinding parts), and roller along the track 
of the disc at the level of circular movement imposed by 
external grinding roller in the vertical pressure on the disc on 
the material being the joint action of compression and shear, 
and to crush.
Origin of vertical roller mill
HISTORY OF GRINDING TECHNOLOGY
 Transport
Exhaust gases
Raw meal
Drying
Separation
 Separation

Feed
Material
Grinding
Grinding

Hot
gases

Drive
Drive Energy


 feed mill exhaust
gate product
(air discharge
mill outlet duct
lock)
separator
cage rotor

separator
guide vanes
tailings cone
separator
discharge flap
mill
casing roller with tyre
or segments
water
injection rocker arm
roller axle
dam
table
ring
liner

nozzle of hot gas inlet

louvre grinding table
ring

hydraulic
cylinder
material clutch speed reducer
scraper and motor with table
bearing
8/7/20
 Vertical roller mill
Roller weight + (pressure) Force
Grinding force =
Roller rolls
freely with
table
Material bed

Feed material Table moves with drive

 Separator Gas & Product
: Material
removes
fine Feed
material Material

rejects
coarse
material
Separator
Internal
gas flow Rejects Internal
Circulation

Large Material falls through

to scraper

Material

Material &
Gas Gas

8/7/2013
G.Pfeiffer Loesche
 Static type
static
Conventional
conventional rotor Cage Rotor type
separator type
P P
Rotor type
P

F T F
F T T F
F F
P T

Separation
F= Feed
control:
P = Product
1. Vane adjustment T= Tailings

2. Speed control TF F
T
8/7/201
 Angle
affects
product
sizing
Rotor speed affects
product fineness

Rotor seal
affects separator
8//2013
efficiency
 fresh
feed

bucket
elevator

louvre
ring Used for
scraper reducing gas
flow pressure
lost over the
mill

collecting conveyor
(less pneumatic
internal
circulation)
Control
- Vibration monitor
 Gearbox
- Temperature monitor
Gas flow - Temperatures & pressures
Hydraulics - Pressures

Maintenance

 - Rollers & Table wear

- Separator (sealing!) & Housing

 Lubrication & Hydraulics (filters and seals)

CONTROL
POINTS
1 gas flow

2 pressure
difference

3
return gas
flow
pressure
4
outlet
temperature
5
external
recirculation
VRM INTERNALS - TYPICAL WEAR PROTECTION
eg. Fuller-
Loesche
Ceramic
mortar/
tiles Wear resistant steel
plate or Surface
weld

Wear Ni-Hard
resistant
steel plate

Wear resistant steel

Wear
plate or Surface
resistant
weld
steel plate or
Surface weld
NGH_PRD-214
VRM INTERNALS - TABLE DETAILS
eg. Loesche

Louvre
NGH_PRD-214
ring
VRM INTERNALS - LOUVRE RING
Hot gas inlet duct

Louvre ring

Covered
louvre ring
area

NGH_PRD-214
VRM INTERNALS - EXAMPLE GRINDING TABLE
Dam ring

Table liner fastening

Grinding track

Grinding table

Insulation of grinding
table

Manhole

Polysius
VRM - CONTROL & MAINTENANCE
Control
Gearbox - Vibration monitor
- Temperature monitor
Gas flow - Temperatures & pressures

Hydraulics - Pressures

Maintenance
Wear - Rollers & Table
- Separator (sealing) & Housing
Lubrication & Hydraulics (filters and
seals)
VRM - ACCESSORIES
Pendulum valve
Rotary valve
Reduces false
air entering Reduces false
with feed air entering.
material. Good Better for
lumpy or
for dry, small
humid feed
size material. material.

Weigh belt Metal extraction

Metal
objects
damage the
Weighs the passing roller &
material ensuring a table. The
continuous grinding bed magnet
in the mill removes
them
 Investigation of the feed material

Different materials are characterized by

❖ high resistance to grinding

❖ severe abrasiveness

❖ in homogeneous grindability , moisture content and grain sizes

❖ tendency not to form a stable bed , so that the material leaves  the 
grinding bowl prematurely
 Production aspects of vertical roller mill

. 
 Operation points
1.1 Stable Beds: 

• To maintain stability and bed material, which is  grinding 
roller grinding bed basis, the normal operation of the  key. 
Material thickness can be adjusted to adjust the height of  
retaining ring material, a suitable thickness and their  
relationship with the correspondence between the vertical  
roller mill output should be in the debugging stage of the first  
to find out.

•  Lower fuel layer thick grinding efficiency, material  layer is 
too thin will cause vibration. Such as roll up,then fine  powder 
generated much thinner material layer; roll reduction,  disc 
material thicker, more appropriate to return the materials,  
material layer thickening
• Mill bed height can be determined by the position of master
roller in the mill

Mill bed height

 Controlling Vibrations
•Know the vibration limit and optimum grinding bed thickness for your
mill
•Have reliable, calibrated bed depth monitors
•Adjust the mill dam ring height to compensate for table wear
•Match grinding pressure to mill throughput – establish relationship
between feedrate and hydraulic pressure. Consider control loop bed
depth vs hydraulic pressure
•Maintain an even bed, avoid big stones in mill, avoid excessive fines
in mill feed, avoid uncontrolled feed variations, even distribution of
material to each of the rollers, feed to the centre of the table,
adjustment of feed chute and or use of guide vanes (ploughs)
•Apply stable water spray to the control bed, normally fed to the feed
side of each roller, check flow consistency on each spray
•Know the critical level of gasflow and pressure drop for your mill
•Maintain stable mill gasflow to keep internal circulation consistent –
apply automatic control loop
•Avoid magnetic and non-magnetic objects entering mill
 Monitoring the vibrations

Mill vibration indicator

 Mill load
• Mill load depends upon various factors such as bed height ,type of crushing
material so optimum mill load should be maintained.

Mill load
 Quality of the product material

Main quality aspect that should be maintained in a mill are :-

1)Residue

2)Blaine or specific surface

Thank you for giving
your precious time

UTKARSH
KATIYAR
25244
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