Ceramic Industry

Union Process, Inc.: Laboratory Attritor (posted 11/13/09)

November 13, 2009
Appropriate for research, scale-up studies and small-scale production, the CL-5 lab attritor processes in the range of 200-500 pounds per hour.

Union Process recently built a lab machine for its limestone and mineral grinding line. The CL-5 is the smallest member of the CL series of stirred vertical ball mills. The CL-5 is appropriate for research, scale-up studies and small-scale production. Primary applications are for wet grinding limestone for flue gas desulphurization in power plants and for mineral grinding.

Whereas CL series production attritors provide large, continuous production with throughputs in the tons per hour, the CL-5 lab attritor processes in the range of 200-500 pounds per hour. The mill is equipped with a variable frequency drive (VFD) and a 15 horsepower inverter-duty motor. The CL-5 uses 2.5 gallons of grinding media.

CL attritors are top-fed, with the product (approximately 6 mm in size) and water entering through the top of the mill, where they are propelled down into the media bed. Final product exits through the top side of the mill.

For more information, call (330) 929-3333, e-mail eli@unionprocess.com or visit www.unionprocess.com.

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