and a ball mill in a primary grinding circuit; a ball mill can have an installed power of up to 15 MW, while installed power for a SAG mill can go up to 25 MW. However, the energy used for fine grinding is still significant. Moreover, as this paper seeks to demon-strate, large energy reduction opportunities are fre-quently found in fine ...Raw Bond Model. This is a SAG or AG mill plus ball mill model that estimates the specific energy consumption (E SAG) using the 1979 Barratt equation and the classical Bond work index equation including Rowland …

The SAG Mill is a machine added by Ender IO.It uses Micro Infinity (µI) to grind (or mill) items into their crushed variants, like Ores into Dusts.The SAG Mill has four output slots; recipes can have 1-4 different outputs, with different chances of obtaining those outputs. Uniquely, the SAG Mill can use Grinding Balls made from various materials to increase energy efficiency …...Methods to Estimate AG/SAG Mill Power Requirements. A linkedin group was recently discussing this by asking: I've tried to estimate AG/SAG Mill power requirements using several different methods: (1) Using the results of SMC data. (2) Using SAG Power Index (SPI) data. (3) Using the 1989 Barratt method updated on Alex Doll's Web site ...

Tracking the mill performance showed that the mill power consumption decreased from 9.49 to 6.63 kWh/t (a nearly 30% reduction), P 80 of the mill product decreased from 611 to 355 μm, and the mill fresh feed flow rate increased from 511 to 521 t/h by decreasing the feed ore hardness from 112 min to 58 min based on SAG power index (SPI ...Tracking the mill performance showed that the mill power consumption decreased from 9.49 to 6.63 kWh/t (a nearly 30% reduction), P80 of the mill product decreased from 611 to 355μm, and the mill ...

Mills usually operate in the range 65 - 82% of critical but values as high as 90% are sometimes used. A crucial parameter that defines the performance of a mill is the energy consumption. The power supplied to the mill is used primarily to lift the load (medium and charge). Additional power is required to keep the mill rotating. 8.1.3 Power ...The SAG mill specific energy consumption (E SAG) is calculated using the 1979 Barratt equation and the ball mill specific energy consumption (E bm) This model includes a phantom cyclone effect in the equations due to the ball mill being calculated by difference and not being calculated by the normal Bond equation. The resultant operating work ...

The mill performance is analyzed using three parameters: useful power, percentage of useful energy consumption and tangential cumulative contact energy. In this paper, a new method for parameter design and optimization of trapezoidal liner is proposed based on DEM simulation and the Kriging model...Show details of benchmarking. Benchmarking: Bond/Barratt SAG Mill Specific Energy Consumption - Detour Lake. J. Torrealba-Vargas, J.-F. Dupont, J. McMullen, A. Allaire and R. Welyhorsky, The successful development of the detour lake grinding circuit: from testwork to production.Proceedings of the SAG 2015 Conference, September 2015, Vancouver, Canada, …

providing operating data for 3 semi -autogenous grinding (SAG) mills and 4 ball mills. Results show on. average that 7 9% of the supplied electrical energy …...Results showed that the presented new model is best able to predict SAG mill power consumption with a small error, X = 1.90% and S = 9.40%. View. Show abstract.

operating at 90% of its maximum power. The combined power draw of the SAG mill and ball mill was 8658 kW, which caused partial over-grinding. From experience in processing plants outside of China, the power rating of the ball mill should be higher than that of the SAG mill [5]. The pebble crusher had an over-powered configuration...For example, for an 36′ × 17′ SAG Mill, with a power consumption of 11.7 MW, operating at 73% solids, 13.5% balls charge and at 76% of the critical speed, with 50% of the feed in the size class −6″ +1″; it could be possible to increment in 2% the balls charge (to 15.5%), reducing the % −6″ +1″ to 34.8%, with no changes in the ...

The total mill feed remained essentially unchanged averaging approximately 1300 TPH. However, the total mill power consumption dropped 8% from an average of 7600 kW to 7000 kW. The mill work index dropped 10 percent from …...The SAG data corresponds to the operation of three mills over six months, from which a typical day was selected through fuzzy c-means clustering. The total production for this typical day was 192,000 tons for the three SAG mills, with a maximum and minimum SAG mill power consumption of 42.17 MW and 40.77 MW, respectively.

Mill Power Draw Models. The mill power draw models are used to predict how much power will be consumed by a particular type of mill, mill geometry and set of mill operating conditions. This power is transferred to the ore and used to predict the throughput when combined with the specific energy consumption models...energy consumption is defined as the motor power consumed relative to the shell of the mill (a.k.a. power at the pinion output) divided by the fresh feed rate in dry tonnes per hour. The simplest models use a single grindability measurement to estimate the specific energy consumption across the whole size range observed in the industrial ...

After optimizing parameters, electric energy consumption, on average, decreased in the range of 0.3–1.3 kWh/t. Actual SAG mill power drawn, on average, decreased by 230–370 kW or 10% with the implementation of the …...An updated data set for sag mill power model calibration This paper expands the SAG mill survey database published by the Author at Procemin 2013. The new database includes 49 published SAG/AG mill surveys and includes mills from …

An optimization is carried out to minimize the yearly cost of energy for the operation of the SAG mill. This cost includes the energy consumption cost in $/kWh and the capital cost for the PV-BESS infrastructure, prorated over the life of the battery system, accounting for the discount rate through an annuity factor (Pamparana et al. 2019a, b).The energy requirements are …...The SAG mill power draw realized in the operation of the plant on a blend similar to the simulation data shows the mill consumes less power than predicted without the need for pebble crushing to 12mm (if pebble crushing was performed the power draw on the mill could be lower, however it is less expensive to draw more power per ton than operate ...

Energy Consumption For Copper Extraction Process Route Total Energy Consumption2 (kJ/lb) % Reduction Crush, heap leach, SX, EW (Base case) - with alternative anodes - with ferrous/ferric reaction 15,449 14,966 13,835 -3.2% 10.5% SAG mill, ball mill, float, smelt, refine (Base case) HPGR, ball mill, float, smelt, refine...current development in shell liner design and SAG mill opera-tion providing the potential for lower energy consumption, increased throughput, and start-up "on-grind" with new lifters (Veloo et al., 2006b). Highly worn shell lifters can still deliver adequate (though