INVESTIGATION OF EFFECT OF MULTISTART SCREW BLADES ON ENERGY STATE OF GRINDING BODIES IN BEAD MILL

The distribution of bead mills in industrial enterprises of the processing industry for fine and ultra-fine grinding of various materials, the need for their improvement is demonstrated. A new design of a horizontal bead mill with multi-start screw blades is considered. This allows increasing productivity and reducing specific power consumption. The purpose of the studies was to assess the possibility of increasing the efficiency of the bead mill when screw blades are installed on the paddle shaft and their influence on the energy state of grinding bodies. Using the EDEM software product, the mathematical planning method of the experiment, a simulation of the process of movement of grinding bodies in the model of the body part of the bead mill was carried out when it was equipped with a pair of two-way screw blades. The obtained regression equation was studied. It describes the dependence of the averaged value of the total kinetic energy of the grinding body on varying factors: the angle of rotation of the beginning of the blade screw starts, the distance between the screw blades, the pitch of the screw blade, and the angular speed of the blade shaft. The possibilities of increasing the average value of the total kinetic energy of the grinding body and regulating the energy state of the grinding bodies have been established. The feasibility of conducting further theoretical and experimental studies aimed at studying the process of grinding material in a bead mill with multi-start screw blades and establishing rational design and technological parameters that ensure increased efficiency of this process has been determined.