Let us employ SRG and PSRG Technology

Reengineering is rather uncommon in the substantially prevailing pracataice of employing

used cement plant machinery, especially media grinding mills in either expansion or green
field plants. Re-engineering is always benefitial.
SRG and PSRG technology employs roller as the grinding element in a horizantal shell in
place of conventional grinding media such as rods , balls and cylpebs. SRG mills usually
function in close circuit with a suitable classifier to result in optimised production of required
fineness product, and usually employs speeds much higher than critical mill speed of ball
mills. One SRG mill can be integrated along with another PSRG mill or vice versa.
PSRG mills employ compound milling comprising both roller grinding and centrifugal
grinding. The main advantage of PSRG mill technology is that the mill can function as a
single pass open circuit mill thus avoiding the many auxiliaries of the close circuit grinding
system. PSRG has wider operational flexibility: we can employ roller grinding only for
obtaining higher outputs and fineness of product controlled by limited centrifugal grinding
with rod/balls as media. The mill speed can be varied over a wide range depending upon the
prime mover rating. We can operate the mill as lower speed for reduced output or operate at
higher speed for increasing the output. We can have a variable speed motor or a two speed
motor as prime mover. Two PSRG mills can be integrated together with a single drive
arrangement, for higher production rates. Alternatively, each PSRG mill can be employed for
separate grinding of constituents and blend the outputs together to get the desired product,
as in case of Portland slag cement or Portland pozolan cement. If so required, one PSRG can
be employed for grinding of fuel and the other PSRG mill for grinding of raw materials, thus
obviating the additional need of separate coal grinding plant. If so required, One PSRG can
be employed for pre-grinding followed by finish grinding in the other PSRG unit.
PSRG mill can be run as:
a/ Shell roller grinding mill with roller in the inner shell grinding compartment: the ground
material will get dischraged into the planetary grinding tubes for further travel and cooling
prior to dischrage from the mill
b/ Either a few or all the planetary tubes can be employed for further grinding to improve
fineness still limiting the overall power consumption
c/ Tne media loading can be varied easily in each of the planetary tubes thus optimising the
grinding and power consumption levels.
d/ The mill speed is not limited as in case of conventinal ball mills, and can be varied to
achieve desired production levels.
e/ The air flow through each PSRG can be varied independent of the other PSRG mill.
f/ The PSRG mill if so required can be linked with a suitable classifier for further increasing
the outputs by close circuiting at a later stage,