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The grinding circuit is the largest capital investment of your processing plant.
Depending on the grindability of your orebody, abrasion will cause a certain
amount of deterioration to the steel media and liners in your circuit. The
Abrasion test will allow you to quantify this and design accordingly.
The Bond Abrasion Test determines the Abrasion Index, which is used to
determine steel media and liner wear in crushers, rod mills, and ball mills.
Bond developed the following correlations based on the wear rate in pounds
of metal wear/kWh of energy used in the comminution process.
Rods
lb/kWh
= 0.35(Ai 0.020)0.2
Liners
lb/kWh
= 0.035(Ai 0.015)0.3
Balls
lb/kWh
= 0.35(Ai 0.015)0.33
Liners
lb/kWh
= 0.026(Ai 0.015)0.3
Balls
lb/kWh
= 0.05Ai0.5
Liners
lb/kWh
= 0.005Ai0.5
Crushers
(gyratory, jaw, cone)
Liners
lb/kWh
= (Ai + 0.22)/11
Roll crushers
Roll shell
lb/kWh
= (0.1Ai)0.667
Free
Swell
Degree of
LL
PL
SL
Index
expansiven
ess
<20
Low
0.50
035%
>17
%
20-35
Moderate
4060%
2550%
818%
35-50
High
5075%
3565%
612%
>50
Very high