ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ ВЛИЯНИЯ ТЕХНОЛОГИЧЕСКИХ ПАРАМЕТРОВ НА ГРАНУЛОМЕТРИЧЕСКИЕ ХАРАКТЕРИСТИКИ СУБМИКРОННОГО ОКСИДА АЛЮМИНИЯ В α-ФОРМЕ

Abstract

Experimental studies of the influence of technological parameters of grinding alumina raw materials in a ball mill on the kinetics of the grinding process and the granulometric characteristics of activated alumina in the α-form have been carried out. It is found that the use of spherical grinding bodies leads to the formation of a specific four-modal granulometric composition with maxima: 0.5; 4.0; 50.0 and 400.0 microns, respectively. The disadvantage of using spherical grinding bodies is the uneven distribution of the introduced intensifier additive (PEG), which in turn causes adhesion of fine particles and the appearance of aggregates. This is especially pronounced at n = 100 rpm. When using grinding bodies of cylindrical shape, on the contrary, there is a tendency towards a bimodal nature of the distribution of particles with maxima in the regions of 0.4 and 4 μm, respectively, regardless of the rotation speed of the drum (n). The use of cylpebs does not provoke agglomeration of the fine particle fraction, which is observed in the case of spherical grinding bodies. When analyzing the kinetics of grinding alumina raw materials, two main stages of the process are identified. The first stage corresponds to the active fragmentation of large initial aggregates into constituent crystallites by the cleavage mechanism. The second stage corresponds to a change in the grinding mechanism from crushing to abrasion. It is found that carrying out the grinding process for 10 hours using cylindrical grinding bodies at n = 100 rpm and φ = 0.35 provides a high yield of the submicron fraction of the target product (1 μm) - up to 20 wt. %.