Horizontal Mills

Roller Bearing Supported Ball Mills

Antifriction Spherical Roller Bearing Supported Mills

Metso is the Leader in Trunnion

Supported Roller Bearing Mills
Metso has designed and manufactured roller bearing supported mills since the 1960's. Metso offers a
standard line of Antifriction Spherical Roller Bearing Supported Ball Mills for wet overflow grinding that
are suitable for a variety of applications including Industrial and Metallic mineral processing and most
flue gas desulfurization (FGD) projects. The standardized designs offer
a quality solution at an economical price and faster delivery. The
standard mill size designs range between 2.4 meters up to
4.4 meters in diameter at a length to diameter (L/D) ratio
between 1.5 and 2.0 as illustrated on page 7.

Advantages of Antifriction Spherical Roller Bearings

Antifriction Spherical Roller Bearings offer a simple, reliable, robust technical solution
at a very affordable price that has been proven over many years of service.

• High Load Carrying Capacity.

• Self-Aligning
• High Reliability
• Short Trunnion Length
• Simple Grease Lubrication System
• Economical
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Trunnion Bearing Housing

Metso’s trunnion bearing housing effectively seals and protects the bearing from contamination due to dust and dirt.

• Metso’s housing design.

• Common housing on the fixed and floating ends of the mill.
• Two piece construction for easy assembly.

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General Design

Metso’s Standard Antifriction Roller Bearing Supported Mills are fabricated from
Steel plate with removable trunnions that offers a simple robust design solution.

• The shell and heads are an integral design to create a single piece welded
fabricated assembly from steel plate.
• The shell assembly with integral heads is drilled to attach the mill’s
rubber liners.
• Machined Trunnion flanges are welded to the heads to provide exact mount
location for the demountable trunnions.
• The Trunnions are individual pieces bolted to the mounting flanges welded to
the head.
• Trunnions are made made from steel castings or nodular iron with a
machined flange.
• The OD of the trunnion is machined to mount the roller bearing
adaptor sleeve.
• All major weld joints are designed for full penetration welds.

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Lubrication of the Trunnion and Pinion Shaft Bearings

Complex Hydraulic Systems are replaced by simple grease lubrication system

drive by small electric or pneumatic motors

• A common lubrication system automatically greases both the trunnion

and pinion spherical roller bearings at predetermined intervals.
• The operation of the grease lubrication system uses compressed air to
draw grease from a standard size barrel.
• Grease is distributed to the trunnion spherical roller bearing and the
pinion spherical roller bearings directly through the housings.
• Distribution of lubrication is controlled by Metso's designed
Program Logic Controller (PLC)

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Drive Arrangement

The drive system has been optimized to give the most cost effective solution by offering standard components for a series of mill diameters.
The motors are connected to a double reduction gear box by either a high speed fluid coupling for soft start capability or a standard flexible
style coupling in conjunction with an electrical soft start system.

• Single pinion drive arrangement

• Double reduction parallel shaft speed reducer gearbox.
• Squirrel Cage Induction Motors are used for power requirements up to 745 kW with a high speed fluid coupling
• Wound Rotor Induction Motors are used for power requirements above 745 kW
• Liquid Rheostat Starts are used in conjunction with the Wound Rotor Induction Motors

Ring and Pinion Gear Drive

The ring gear is made in segments from cast steel. The pinion gear can be a single piece construction with integral shaft or a two piece
construction, separate pinion gear mounted on a pinion shaft.

• Ring and pinion gears are designed to AGMA 6014-A06

• The ring and pinion gears are reversible so both flanks of the teeth can be utilized for longer life.
• Forged pinion gear for increased reliability supported by self aligning spherical bearings.
• Pinion shaft bearings equipped with labyrinth seals and temperature monitoring sensors mounted in standard pillow blocks.
• Automatic gear spray lubrication system
• Fully enclosed gear guards for maximum protection.

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Antifriction Roller Bearing Series Grinding Mills

Estimated Estimated
Pinion Approximate Mill RPM Estimated Roller
Diameter Length Power Motor Size at 75% Mill Weight Bearing
No (m) (m) L/D (kW) (kW) Critical (kg) Designation
1 2.4 3.6 1.50 214 232 20.48 53615 239/850
2 2.4 4.2 1.75 248 269 20.48 62143 239/850
3 2.4 4.8 2.00 282 306 20.48 70625 239/850
4 2.8 4.2 1.50 378 410 18.96 85186 239/850
5 2.8 4.9 1.75 437 474 18.96 98703 239/850
6 2.8 5.6 2.00 497 539 18.96 112084 239/850
7 3.2 4.8 1.50 593 643 17.74 126780 239/850
8 3.2 5.6 1.75 687 745 17.74 146784 239/850
9 3.2 6.4 2.00 780 846 17.74 166788 239/1060
10 3.6 5.4 1.50 912 990 16.72 179987 239/1060
11 3.6 6.3 1.75 1055 1145 16.72 208337 239/1060
12 3.6 7.2 2.00 1198 1300 16.72 236596 239/1180
13 4.0 6.0 1.50 1338 1452 15.86 246076 239/1180
14 4.0 7.0 1.75 1547 1678 15.86 284859 239/1180
15 4.0 8.0 2.00 1756 1905 15.86 323460 239/1180
16 4.4 6.6 1.50 1893 2054 15.13 326771 239/1500
17 4.4 7.2 1.64 2054 2229 15.13 354894 239/1500
18 4.4 7.7 1.75 2188 2374 15.13 378255 239/1500
19 4.4 8.2 1.86 2322 2519 15.13 401569 239/1500

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to our customers and
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results to our customers,
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their goals.

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Metso Minerals Industries, Inc., 2715 Pleasant Valley Road, York PA, 17402 USA, tel +1 717 849 7213, fax +1 717 849 7252, www.metso.com