Introducing the Vertical Roller Mill with Driven Rollers: An Innovation and Reliable Concept Suitable for Driving Large Mills

Abstract

With the market demand for efficient, highly flexible, and high-capacity plants for cement production, it was time to develop an innovative drive concept to cope with the demand: the world's first vertical roller mill (VRM) with driven rollers. With this concept, it is the rollers of the VRM that are driven, not-as is usually the case-the grinding table. With the roller-driven vertical mill, an innovative drive concept is offered that is specifically suitable for reliably driving large vertical mills. In addition to the advantages in terms of plant availability, this concept offers process and technological advantages and allows for a highly efficient comminution process in vertical mills. Due to the variable-speed drives, the concept is particularly suited to grinding plants for the production of ultrafine cements and to applications requiring the production of a wide range of cements. When the first roller-driven vertical mill was put into operation, it robustly demonstrated its mechanical functionality and operational reliability.