JAW CRUSHER

To determine the crushing law constants using Blake jaw crusher

Experimental setup.

THEORY:

Crushers are slow speed machines for coarse reductions and

can break large lumps of various hard materials as in the primary

and secondary reduction of rocks and ores. In a jaw crusher, the

feed is admitted between the two jaws, said to form v-open at the

top. One jaw is fixed and the other is movable. It makes an angle

of 200- 300 with the fixed jaw.

The movable jaw is driven by eccentric motor so that it applies great

compressive force, large lumps caught in between the upper part of

the jaw are broken then drop into the narrow space below and are

crushed again at the bottom of the jaw. After sufficient reduction,

they drop out from the bottom of the machine.

A crusher cannot be expected to perform satisfactorily unless.

a) The product is removed as soon as they are of desirable size.

b) Unbreakable material is kept out of the machine.

c) In the reduction of low melting and high sensitive products, heat

Generated in the mill is removed.

APPARATUS REQUIRED:

Jaw crusher setup, screens, sample.

PROCEDURE:

1) Jaw crusher is started.

2) Before the feed is fed into it, the time taken for one revolution of

the energy meter disc is noted for no load condition.

3) The feed (1000 g ms) is fed now at constant and steady rate so as

to avoid jamming and choke feeding.

4) When the jaw crusher is running under on load condition, time

taken for one revolution of the energy meter disc is noted.

5) Also the time taken for feeding the entire material is noted.

6) The crushed material is transferred to a sieve stack and

mechanically agitated for 10 minutes.

7) The quantity of sample retained on each sieve is weighed and

 tabulated as shown in the table. The screen analysis data is used

to determine the volume surface mean diameter of the products

(Dp)

OBSERVATION:
Feed size, Df = m
Ton
Quantity of feed sample
Time taken for 1 complete revolution ( = hr
m
Time takenthe
Total time formill
1 complete revolution (
is put to operation = es
hr
Energy
on load)meter constants for ball mill
no
(Toload)
be observed from the Experimental = hr

Setup)
TABULATION:

SI.N Me Size of Average Mass Mass Xi/Dpi

O sh Apertur Particle in fracti

No. e Da size in each on

(mm) each fracti

fraction on

Dpi (mm) (gms

FORMULAE REQUIRED:
)
1) Energy required for crushing

E=[n1-n] [m x EMC] kW hr/Tones

2) Volume surface mean diameter of the product

Dp=1 {xi/Dpi

3) Work Index

Wi=[E] [1/Dp-1/Df]

4) Rittingers constant
 KR fc=[E] [1/Dp-1/Dr]

5) Kicks Constant

KKfc=[E]1n(Df/Dp]

Where

n1 is the no. of revolutions of the energy meter disc during the mill

operation under on load condition.

n is the no. of revolution of the energy meter disc during the mill

operation under no load condition.

m is mass of sample in tones.

EMC is Energy meter constant.

Dp is mass mean diameter of the product sample in mm

Df is the diameter of the feed sample in mm

RESULT:

The crushing law constants are

determined

I. Wi =
II. KRfc =

III. Kkfc=