What role does the ball mill play in ceramic factories production trends?

Some of you may know that ball mills are usually used in sanitary ware factories or ceramic tile factories. But do you know how a Grinding Wet Mill works? What should we pay attention to when using a grinding ball mill machine for ceramic material?

• The concept of a ball mill

• How a ball mill works

• Additional use of ball mill

• What are the advantages of the ball mill?

• What do you need to pay attention to when using a ball mill

The concept of a ball mill

Ball Mill for Glaze, also known as pebble mill or roller mill, is a grinding machine composed of a hollow cylinder with a ball; Mounted on a metal frame that allows it to rotate along its longitudinal axis. Balls of different diameters account for 30-50% of the volume of the mill, depending on the feed and mill size. Large balls tend to break down the coarse feed, while smaller balls help to form fine products by reducing the space between the balls.

How a ball mill works

Several types of Ball Mill for Glaze exist. They work somewhat differently. The maximum capacity of their grinding containers also varies, ranging from 0.010 liters for planetary, mixing or vibrating ball mills to 100 liters for horizontal rolling ball mills.

Additional use of ball mill

Small and medium capacity ball mills are used for final grinding of drugs or suspension grinding. Maximum capacity grinding wet mills are used to grind ore before manufacturing pharmaceutical chemicals.

What are the advantages of the ball mill?

1. Simple operation, reversible running state can be switched.

2. Adopt Siemens or Omron frequency conversion control to achieve segmented speed regulation. 8 kinds of operation speed can be preset, according to the set process time, improve grinding efficiency, save energy consumption, reduce cost.

3. Equipped with timer, automatically stop running after reaching the set time.

4. Various formulas can be pre-stored in parameters (i.e., speed and time range parameters). When changing the process plan, it can be switched freely.

5. High safety, with emergency stop button and safety lock control.

6. The auxiliary motor of large ball mill is conducive to the precise positioning of the grinding mouth and the effective mixing of materials, water and grinding body after feeding. The main motor and auxiliary motor have interlocking function, that is, when the auxiliary motor is started, the main motor is not allowed to start.

7. Cylinder using submerged arc welding, deep fusion, high quality weld. The ends of the shaft are heat treated to eliminate internal stress. Both ends of shaft are processed synchronously to ensure the coaxially of ball mill.

What do you need to pay attention to when using a ball mill

1. Product contamination may be due to wear, mainly from the sphere and partly from the housing.

2. Machines are noisy, especially if hollow cylinders are made of metal, but much less if rubber is used.

3. The milling time is longer.

4. Difficult to clean after use.

Grinding ball mill machines for ceramic materials are widely used and can also run continuously for grinding highly abrasive materials. Hexiang Electromechanical is an excellent choice for a growing number of cost-sensitive ceramic tile factories looking for a high quality supplier at an affordable price.