Questions: Size Reduction

MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. ______ is a device for longitudinal cutting of wide roll material

a) Fly Cutter Mill

b) End mill
c) Slitting cutter
d) Rotary cutter
2. Which of the following is a part of construction of a Rotary cutter mill
a) Flute
b) Shank
c) Rotating knives
d) Stripper
3. During Milling cutter usually moves
a) Perpendicular to its axis
b) Parallel to its axis
c) Both a & b
d) Any of the above
4. It is a type of cutting mill where material is cut between rotating knives in small pieces,
therefore particle pass through the screen product and is collected to the receiver.
a) Rotary cutting mill
b) Slitting cutter
c) End Mill
d) Ball Mill
5. Rotor Disc of a rotary cutter mill rotates at
a) 180-720 rpm
b) 300-700 rpm
c) 250-920 rpm
d) 200-900 rpm
6. It has teeth on the end as well as the periphery.
a) Hammer mill
b) Rotary Cutter Mill
c) End Mill
d) Slitting Cutter
7. Rotating knives are attached to a horizontal ___ which rotate at high speed
a) Rotor
b) Flute
c) Shank
d) Stationary knives
8. Stationary knives are mounted in the____ of the machine

a) Rotor
 b) Casing
c) Rotating knives
d) None of the above

9. Which of the following is the most important safety precaution?

a) Do not make contact with the revolving cutter
b) operator should know how to operate various controls of the machine
c) Shut the machine off before making any adjustments or measurements.
d) The machine tool should always be started and stopped by the operator
himself
10. _______ are cutting tools typically used in milling machines or machining centres to
perform milling operations They remove material by their movement within the machine
a) Milling Cutters
b) Slitting cutter
c) Rotating cutter mill
d) End Mill
11. The following are size reduction processes except:
a. milling b. dicing c. mincing d. cutting e. pressing

12. A size reduction mechanism that occurs when the material is more or less stationary and
is hit by an object moving at high speed or when the moving particle strikes a stationary
surface. In either case, the material shatters to smaller pieces.
a. impact b. crushing c. attrition d. cutting e. none of the above

13. The selection of a size reduction equipment is mainly influenced by:

a. nature of the feed
b. safety
c. economics
d. characteristic of desired product
e. all the above

14. Inert substances that are added to aid the size reduction process for sticky materials in
order to prevent them from adhering onto the grinding surface or onto the meshes of the
screen.
Example(s) of these include(s):
a. sulphur
b. nitrogen
c. kaolin
d. graphene oxide
e. all of the above
15. The fluid energy mill is used for micronizing of solids of chemicals, pharmaceuticals,
pigments, minerals and others like heat sensitive, corrosive and abrasive materials. This
operates by:
a. impaction and compression
b. compression and attrition
c. impaction
d. attrition
e. impaction and attrition

16. The structure and composition of the material to be processed greatly influence the size
reduction mechanism. For materials with no fracture planes present, new cracks must be
develop using ________.
a. Attrition b. impaction c. compression d. cutting e. all of the above
17. This size reduction law is applicable mainly to that part of the process where new
surface is being created and holds most accurately for fine grinding where the increase in
surface per unit mass of material is large.
a. Kick’s Law b. Rittinger’s Law c. Bond’s Law d. Fick’s Law
18. This is the process of breaking up bulk liquids into very fine droplets through the use of
high pressure fluid jets.
a. Homogenization b. emulsification c. atomization d. spray drying

Refer to the figure below.

19. Based on the Stress vs. Strain plot, which describes the behavior of soft, weak and
ductile material?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
 d. 4
e. 5
20. The ability of a material to resist propagation of cracks.
a. Hardness
b. Toughness
c. Abrasiveness
d. Stickiness
e. Structure
21. End Mill is a mill equipment wherein size reduction is done by the impact of the balls?
a) Ball mill
b) Hammer mill
c) Pin mill
d) Roller mill
22. In ball mills, the grinding media are balls and these balls may be of ____, except?
a) Chrome steel
b) Stainless steel
c) Ceramics
d) Plastic
23. The inner surface of the cylindrical shell of a ball mill is usually lined with an abrasion-
resistant material such as?
a) Manganese steel
b) Rubber
c) Both a & b
d) None of the above
24. Balls mill is also known as ____?
a) Dribbling mill
b) Tumbling mill
c) Dropping mill
d) Trickling mill
25. Is a mill whose purpose is to shred or crush aggregate material into smaller pieces by the
repeated blows of little hammers?
a) Ball mill
b) Hammer mill
c) Pin mill
d) Roller mill
26. It is a type of high-speed impact mill consisting of a feed inlet, a set of two disk with
concentric rings of pins and a product outlet?
a) Ball mill
b) Hammer mill
c) Pin mill
d) Roller mill
27. ____ is also known as Centrifugal Impact Mill?
a) Ball mill
b) Hammer mill
 c) Pin mill
d) Roller mill
28. Depending on the type of the pin mill, one or both disks can rotate. In cases where both
disks rotate, the second disk rotates in _____direction.
a) Same
b) Counter
c) Parallel
d) None of the above

29. It is a safety and precautionary procedure, wherein operators must be issued a work
permit before they start working with a mill equipment
a) Planning
b) Barricading
c) Issue safe work permit
d) Selecting crew
30. It is a safety and precautionary procedure, wherein operators should receive proper
technical training before they start working with a mill equipment, they should fully
understand how the mill works.
a) Clean up the machine after use
b) Proper technical knowledge
c) Issue safe work permit
d) Selecting crew
31. A primary crusher in a mine or ore processing plant designated in size either by the gape
and mantle diameter or by the size of the receiving opening.
b. a. Gyratory Crusher Roll Crusher
c. Jaw Crusher
d. Blake Crusher
32. Most liners used in crushers are made of?
a. Tin
b. Steel
c. Manganese
d. Non of the above
33. The casts of crushers are made of?
a. Cast steel
b. Nickel
c. Cobalt
d. Manganese
34. It has a maximum feed size of 1 500 mm?
a. Gyratory Crusher
b. Roll Crusher
c. Jaw Crusher
d. Blake Crusher
35. This crushing equipment can produce a product size less than 30mm.
 a. Roll Crusher
b. Jaw Crusher
c. Blake Crusher
d. Cone Crusher
36. A type of jaw crusher on which the swing jaw is pivoted at the lower position.
a. Blake Crusher
b. Jaw Crusher
c. Universal Jaw Crusher
d. Dodge Jaw Crusher
37. A type of jaw crusher on which the swing jaw is pivoted on an intermediate position.
a. Blake Crusher
b. Jaw Crusher
c. Universal Jaw Crusher
d. Dodge Jaw Crusher
38. A reduction crusher consisting of a heavy frame on which two rolls are mounted, driven
so that they rotate toward one another.
a. Single Roll Crusher
b. Double Roll Crusher
c. Double Toggle Crusher
d. Single Toggle Crusher
39. This size reduction equipment operates under the principles of impact, shear, and
principle.
a. Single Roll Crusher
b. Double Roll Crusher
c. Double Toggle Crusher
d. Single Toggle Crusher
40. What is the term referred to the distance between the surface of two rollers?
a. Set b. gape c. nip d. crushing area