Ball mill design - Input / design reasources sought

[sda46]

Hi

I'm currently designing a barrel for a lab sized ball mill. I've struggled to find any resources with specific design information so have cobbled together a calc sheet in excel to start the process off. I'd be really keen to hear feedback from anyone who may have experience in this area or who could recommend a good design resource. I've attached my spreadsheet, feel free to have a look and use it for your own devices.

So far I have been using Crushing and Grinding by G.C. Lowrison and Ball and Tube and rod mills by H.E. Rose.

Specs:
The mill is to be used to mush a 3 Liter 50/50 mixture of soil and water. Basically I'm aiming to homogenize the solution and reduce average particle size to around 1 micron. I want to run it as a batch process and am currently trying to optimize drum size, ball size and rpm.

Cheers

Sam Davies
BE Hons (Mech)

 

[Compositepro]

There are standard jar mills available for lab milling. Why would you design something different?. Optimized for what?

 

[arunmrao]

Get one of those books by Walte H Duda. There is a mine of information out there. Typically, I would go get one of those standard mills .