{"title":"Fit-for-Purpose Model of HP500 Cone Crusher in Size Reduction of Itabirite Iron Ore","authors":"Brena Karolyne Nunes da Rocha, Túlio Moreira Campos, Júlio Silva, Luís Marcelo Tavares","doi":"10.3390/min14090919","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Cone crushers have a central role in the processing of quarry rocks, besides coarser ore preparation in several mineral processing plants. This is particularly true in the case of Itabirite iron ore preparation plants in Brazil, so optimizing their performance is of central importance for reaching maximum productivity of the circuit. The work presents results of modeling the HP500 cone crusher in operation in an industrial plant in Brazil (Minas Rio), from surveys carried out over a few years with different feeds and crushing conditions. A version of the Andersen–Whiten cone crusher model was implemented in the Integrated Extraction Simulator featuring a non-normalizable breakage response and a fit-for-purpose throughput model. The results demonstrate the good ability of the model to predict crusher performance when dealing with different closed-side settings and feed size distributions.","PeriodicalId":18601,"journal":{"name":"Minerals","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2000,"publicationDate":"2024-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Minerals","FirstCategoryId":"89","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3390/min14090919","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"GEOCHEMISTRY & GEOPHYSICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Cone crushers have a central role in the processing of quarry rocks, besides coarser ore preparation in several mineral processing plants. This is particularly true in the case of Itabirite iron ore preparation plants in Brazil, so optimizing their performance is of central importance for reaching maximum productivity of the circuit. The work presents results of modeling the HP500 cone crusher in operation in an industrial plant in Brazil (Minas Rio), from surveys carried out over a few years with different feeds and crushing conditions. A version of the Andersen–Whiten cone crusher model was implemented in the Integrated Extraction Simulator featuring a non-normalizable breakage response and a fit-for-purpose throughput model. The results demonstrate the good ability of the model to predict crusher performance when dealing with different closed-side settings and feed size distributions.
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Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X) is an international open access journal that covers the broad field of mineralogy, economic mineral resources, mineral exploration, innovative mining techniques and advances in mineral processing. It publishes reviews, regular research papers and short notes. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. There is no restriction on the length of the papers. The full experimental details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced.