Types of Coal Pulverizers

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Types of coal pulverizers[edit]

Coal pulverizers may be classified by speed, as follows:[1]

 Low Speed
 Medium Speed
 High Speed
Low Speed[edit]
Ball and tube mills[edit]
A ball mill is a pulverizer that consists of a horizontal rotating cylinder, up to three diameters in
length, containing a charge of tumbling or cascading steel balls, pebbles, or rods.
A tube mill is a revolving cylinder of up to five diameters in length used for fine pulverization of ore,
rock, and other such materials; the material, mixed with water, is fed into the chamber from one end,
and passes out the other end as a slurry.
Both types of mill include liners that protect the cylindrical structure of the mill from wear. Thus the
main wear parts in these mills are the balls themselves, and the liners. The balls are simply
"consumed" by the wear process and must be re-stocked, whereas the liners must be periodically
replaced.
The ball and tube mills are low-speed machines that grind the coal with steel balls in a rotating
horizontal cylinder. Due to its shape, it is called a tube mill and due to use of grinding balls for
crushing, it is called a ball mill, or both terms as a ball tube mill..

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