Ball Mill Grinding

A ball mill is a type of grinder used to grind and blend bulk material into QDs/nanosize using different sized balls. The working principle is simple; impact and attrition size reduction take place as the ball drops from near the top of a rotating hollow cylindrical shell.Schellinger's calculated ball mill efficiency, in dry or wet ball mill grinding, ranges between 10% and 19%, with the higher figure occurring at the optimal mill loading. In terms of the Brace and Walsh surface free energy of quartz, his results give a ball mill efficiency that is less than 0.5%.