What is a closed circuit dry grinding ball mills?

Grinding in ball mills is an important technological process applied to reduce the size of particles which may have different nature and a wide diversity of physical, mechanical and chemical characteristics. Typical examples are the various ores, minerals, limestone, etc.

The applications of ball mills are extensive in mineral processing and mining industry, metallurgy, cement production, chemical industry, pharmaceutics and cosmetics, ceramics, different kinds of laboratory studies and tests. Besides particle size reduction, ball mills are also widely used for mixing, blending and dispersing, amorphisation of materials and mechanical alloying.

Closed Circuit Dry Grinding

In order to achieve the desired particle size, the milling under industrial conditions is usually performed in grinding circuits including classifiers that separate the material according to particle sizes. In a closed mill circuit the oversize particles are returned from the post milling processes to be remilled whereas with an open circuit the process has no feedback loop.

In dry grinding systems, the material from conventional crushing and screening operations is subject to coarse and fine grinding primarily in roller mills or ball mills to reduce the material to the necessary product size range.