Grinding Mill Research Articles

New coating formulation based on synthesized benzodiazepine derivatives as double function additives for industrial application

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to develop a new protective coating formulation for industrial use, using benzodiazepine derivatives as double function additives.Design/methodology/approachBenzodiazepine’s derivatives of types (3–5) were prepared and confirmed by infrared, Mass, 1H-Proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and 13C NMR spectra. The synthesized compound was physically incorporated in the alkyd paint formulation by pebble mill grinding until all particulates are smaller than 20 ums. The prepared coatings were applied by air spray on steel panels. The physical, mechanical characteristics, corrosion resistance and antimicrobial test of the prepared coatings were studied to evaluate the prepared compounds drawbacks.FindingsThe results of the mechanical and physical properties of the paint formulation revealed that the paint formulation incorporating benzodiazepines derivatives 3–5 performed best and improved corrosion-resistance and antibacterial activity tests.Research limitations/implicationsIn alkyd paint, heterocyclic compounds are the most used antibacterial additives. Other functionalities of these compounds, such as corrosion inhibitors, might be studied to see if they are suited for these applications.Practical implicationsBecause of the activity of various benzodiazepine derivatives, which may be attributable to the presence of some function groups such as sulfonamide aromatic amino NH2 group, and elements such as Sulphur, Nitrogen, Chlorine, in its chemical structure. As a result, paint compositions including these compounds as additives can be used as dual-purpose paint and for a variety of industrial applications.Originality/valueThe research demonstrates how a low-cost paint composition based on synthesized benzodiazepine derivatives 3–5 may be used as a dual-function paint for industrial use.

Demineralization of high ash coal fines of Indian origin using Mahua oil

The cost of oil is perhaps the biggest prohibitive aspect of the oil agglomeration process. Furthermore, the high ash low grade coals of India are more difficult to demineralize owing to their unfavourable hydrophilic surface chemistry. The objective of our present study is to use an indigenous and underutilized oil derived from Mahua seeds as a potential bridging liquid for oil agglomeration of low grade coal from Kaniha (Odisha, India) with 35% ash. Based on experimental results, Mahua oil demonstrably proved efficient in demineralization by 45–50% at lower oil concentrations (10–15 wt%), devoid of surfactants. Wet grinding of the coal using a vibratory cup mill was an essential pre-treatment step. A detailed investigation of all the crucial process parameters was performed through variation of pH, oil dosages, solid to liquid ratio and agitation conditions. The results obtained were further validated by detailed characterization of both raw and clean coal using zeta potential, FTIR, SEM studies and petrography. FTIR and petrographic studies validated the inherent and surface hydrophilicity of Kaniha coal. Zeta potential studies clearly showed an increase in surface potential around neutral pΗ which was found to be optimum for oil agglomeration. SEM results conclusively supported the formation of porous large size agglomerates. To our knowledge, ours is the first thorough examination of agglomeration potential of Mahua oil, which is an industrially underutilized product, thus supporting the aim of waste utilization and cleaner fuel production. • Crude Mahua oil as bridging liquid for oil agglomeration of high ash low grade Indian coal (35% ash) has been investigated. • Lower dosage (15 wt%) of oil under neutral conditions gave satisfactory results. • Wet grinding in a vibratory cup mill has been implicated to be a crucial pre-treatment step. • Demineralization by 45–50% was observed. • No pre-conditioning step of surfactant was included.

Stabilization of porous silicon nanoparticles by PEGalization in water

Mesoporous silicon (mPSi) nanoparticles (NPs) are stabilized by polyethylene glycol (PEG) chains during mechanical grinding in a ball mill that is used to form mPSi-PEG-NPs. The structure, composition, and properties of the obtained samples are studied by means of the dynamic light scattering, scanning electron microscopy and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy. The proposed PEGalization procedure is an effective way of regulating the dissolution of mPSi-NPs in water and it is promising for potential application of mPSi-NPs in drug delivery.

Водород и его влияние на измельчение порошка никелида титана

Introduction. Industrial nickel-titanium alloy PN55T45 closed to the equiatomic composition is widely used for the manufacture of products by powder metallurgy. To achieve high physical and mechanical properties of the material obtained by this method, it is necessary to use fine powders, which can be obtained by implementing high-intensity grinding in a planetary ball mill. However, during such treatment, contamination, powder oxidation and particle aggregation, etc. are possible. To solve this problem, preliminary hydrogenation is proposed for subsequent grinding in a planetary ball mill. The aim of the work is to study the effect of hydrogen on the grinding of titanium nickelide powder. Materials and methods. The morphology and average particle size of the powders were studied by scanning electron microscopy. The structure and phase composition of the powders were investigated by the methods of X-ray structural and X-ray phase analysis. The data of X-ray structural analysis were used to estimate the dislocation density. Results and discussions. It is shown that the use of pre-hydrogenation for 180 minutes before machining allows reducing the average particle size by about a half. After mechanical treatment of the powder, the parameters of the crystal lattices of the TiNi (austenite), Ti2Ni and Ni3Ti phases do not change within the error range. After mechanical treatment of the powder with preliminary hydrogenation, the crystal lattice parameter of only the Ti2Ni phase changes significantly, in particular, at 180 minutes of hydrogenation, the lattice parameter increases to 1.1457 ± 5×10-4 nm, which corresponds to the stoichiometry of the Ti2NiH0.5 hydride with a lattice parameter of 1.1500 nm. The highest dislocation density estimated by X-ray diffraction analysis is contained in the Ti2Ni (511) phase than in the TiNi (austenite) (110) and Ni3Ti (202) phases. Thus, preliminary hydrogenation can be an effective method of powder grinding due to the formation of brittle hydride and suppression of the aggregation of fine particles during high-intensity mechanical treatment.

Cocrystals, Salts, and Salt-Solvates of olanzapine; selection of coformers and improved solubility

Pharmaceutical cocrystals and salts are extensively researched in recent years due to their ability to tune the physicochemical properties of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). A model API, olanzapine, an atypical antipsychotic drug classified as Biopharmaceutical Classification System class II, is used in this study. Cocrystals and salts of olanzapine are discovered using solvent drop grinding and ball milling. Appropriate coformers were selected based on a combination of hydrogen-bond propensity (HBP) and hydrogen-bond coordination (HBC) calculations. Eight new multicomponent phases of olanzapine, including one cocrystal hydrate with phenol; four anhydrous salts with salicylic acid, terephthalic acid, anthranilic acid, 3-hydroxybenzoic acid, and 2-aminoterephthalic acid; one salt dihydrate with terephthalic acid; and one salt solvate with 3-hydroxybenzoic acid and acetonitrile, have been discovered and characterized by PXRD and DSC. One reported cocrystal (olanzapine-resorcinol) has also been considered for the dissolution test. All these newly formed solid phases followed the “ΔpKa rule of 3”. The crystal structures of cocrystal/salts were determined by single-crystal X-ray (sc-XRD) diffraction. With the collected single-crystal data, the crystal packings were found to be primarily stabilized via strong hydrogen bonds between carboxyl, phenolic hydroxyl of co-formers/salt-formers with the piperazine and diazepine nitrogen of olanzapine, which confirmed the predicted result from the HBP and HBC calculations. HPLC coupled with UV–vis detector was used in the solubility and dissolution test instead of UV–vis spectroscopy, to avoid the peak overlap between olanzapine and co-formers/salt-formers. A threefold increase in the solubility was observed in olanzapinium 3-hydroxybenzoate and olanzapinium anthranilate, and an almost fivefold increase in solubility of olanzapinium 2-aminoterephthalate.

Fluorination and co-doping of ZIF-8 by ball mill grinding for efficient oxygen reduction electrocatalysis

Fluorination and co-doping of ZIF-8 by ball mill grinding for efficient oxygen reduction electrocatalysis

AG/SAG mill acoustic emissions characterisation under different operating conditions

Towards the development of an improved and more efficient online monitoring system in an industrial AG/SAG grinding mill, the present study employs a laboratory-based AG/SAG mill and acoustic sensor to investigate the acoustic characteristics of different mill operating conditions. Specifically, mill operating conditions such as empty mill, individual charge compositions and their combinations, together with different lifter heights and mill speeds were studied. The results showed remarkable acoustic emission in ball only load and reduced in order of ball-water, ball-rock, rock-ball-water, rock only, rock-water, water only and no load. Water and rock showed minor and major dampening effects on the mill acoustic emission, respectively, in the presence of steel balls. Generally, mill rotational speed, charge load as well as lifter height variations reflected well in the mill noise emission. This study supports the use of mill acoustic sensing technique to understand different grinding conditions in AG/SAG mills for improved and continuous process monitoring, energy-efficient milling, and enhanced optimisation.

Microwave Pretreatment on Copper Sulfide Ore: Comparison of Ball Mill Grinding and Bed Breakage Mechanism

Microwave Pretreatment on Copper Sulfide Ore: Comparison of Ball Mill Grinding and Bed Breakage Mechanism

An innovative flake graphite upgrading process based on HPGR, stirred grinding mill, and nanobubble column flotation

Physical upgrading of graphite is typically achieved with many stages of grinding and flotation to produce a concentrate with approximately 95% carbon grade. An innovative grinding and column flotation process has been developed for efficient graphite upgrading to substantially simplify the process flowsheet and reduce operating costs. In this process, a high-pressure grinding roller (HPGR) and a stirred mill were employed as primary comminution techniques and a nanobubble flotation column as a key separation process. The results obtained with a crystalline flake graphite sample with a carbon grade of 11.15% show that the novel process can produce a concentrate with 94.82% carbon grade and 97.89% recovery from an open circuit of one rougher and two cleaner flotation stages. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) microphotographs indicate that HPGR offers the advantage of more effective protection of graphite flakes during crushing. Grinding test results show that stirred mill could not only protect graphite flakes but also promote the efficient liberation of graphite. Compared with the traditional flotation process, nanobubble flotation can effectively recover ultrafine graphite. The new process possesses a number of important advantages over the traditional method, including substantially higher graphite recovery, greatly simplified process flowsheet, better protection of flake size, reduced reagent consumption and process costs, etc.

Control of Sulfide Oxidattion and its Effect in Galena Flotation

Pyrite (FeS2), chalcopyrite (CuFeS2), sphalerite (ZnS) and galena (PbS) generate hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) when placed in water, that pyrite the most amount of H2O2. The order of these minerals for generate of H2O2 in presence water is pyrite > chalcopyrite > sphalerite > galena. In the previous research, the methods of generation of H2O2 in the grinding mill have been studied but its effect on the oxidation of pulp components and hence in deteriorating the concentrate grade and recovery in flotation has not been explored yet. In this study, some parameters investigated to control the deleterious effects of H2O2 in flotation. The data from experimental have been attached by using MODDE 9 software for 6 parameters consist of composition of water, grinding media, particle size, pH, adding collector among the grinding, adding depressant. Finally, the optimize condition has been achieved: particle size 75 μ, process water, adding all collector, without depressant and pH 10. These changes in flotation response of sulphides have been discussed and explained with the formation of H2O2 quantitatively and the results are presented and discussed in terms of H2O2 generation vis-à-vis concentrate grade and recovery in flotation.

Second phase structure analysis and wear behavior of the ultra-high manganese steel

The high manganese steel is widely used in wear-resisting parts of the cone crusher, such as the grinding mill wall and crushing wall. In this work, the microstructure and wear resistance of an ultra-high manganese steel (Mn18Cr2Mo) were analyzed by electron diffraction and high-resolution transmission electron microscope (HRTEM) observation and impact abrasive wear test. The results show that there are spherical or block Mo2C and strip-like (Fe, Cr)3C phases in Mn18Cr2Mo manganese steel. The orientation of the Mo2C phase and the austenite matrix are [001]austenite// Mo2C, (020)austenite//(020)Mo2C, austenite//(202)Mo2C and austenite//(242)Mo2C. The that of the (Fe, Cr)3C phase and the austenite matrix are [011]austenite// (Fe, Cr)3C and austenite//(210)(Fe, Cr)3C. Besides, austenite is approximately parallel to (Fe, Cr)3C. The interface relation of (002)austenite is approximately parallel to (Fe, Cr)3C. Owing to high density dislocations, deformation bands, microcrystal and non-crystalline, the wear resistance of the Mn18Cr2Mo manganese steel is 1.83 times that of the Mn13 manganese steel under the impact abrasive wear test.

ОСНОВНЫЕ НАПРАВЛЕНИЯ НАУЧНОЙ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ СКГМИ (ГТУ) В ИССЛЕДОВАНИИ И РЕШЕНИИ ПРОБЛЕМЫ КОМПЛЕКСНОЙ И ЭКОЛОГИЧЕСКИ БЕЗОПАСНОЙ ПЕРЕРАБОТКИ ПРИРОДНОГО И ТЕХНОГЕННОГО МИНЕРАЛЬНОГО СЫРЬЯ

The result of many years research of the university scientific community in the field of topical issues of complex processing of natural and man-made mineral raw materials was the creation of a scientific school “Dynamics of working bodies of machines and equipment for fine grinding of rocks” under the leadership of Professor Dmitrak Yu. V. Research results. The dynamic parameters of the grinding bodies are determined directly in the mill grinding chamber which ensure the contactless transmission of information from the grinding ball to the receiving device. A new method of materials self-grinding and the design of a vertical centrifugal mill based on it has been developed. The mill tests during the grinding waste from the production of ceramic products (the battle of insulators, crushed mullite bricks) showed high efficiency and prospects. The tests of a laboratory vibrating mill with one grinding chamber and a rotor diameter of 250 mm for grinding dolomite were carried out. The experiments have shown the possibility of creating vibrating mills for solid materials grinding. In the development of the work of I. N. Plaksin on the flotation of ores with the jet movement of products in the scheme tested by him together with employees in the conditions of the Tekeli processing plant, the modes of joint processing of ores and gold placers were developed at the NCIMM (GTU). It was established that with the unprofitable individual development of alluvial gold mining waste, a positive economic effect can be obtained through their joint processing with ore gold reserves by fine-tuning the concentrate extracted from man-made raw materials by gravitational enrichment methods at a stationary processing plant. It is proved that the addition of the gravitational technology of alluvial gold extraction by flotation methods provides an increase in annual gold production by ~38 % due to the additional extraction of “resistant” forms of gold for gravitational methods. It has been proved in laboratory conditions that the waste slag of the Copper plant of “Ltd. MMP Norilsk Nickel” can be disposed of by joint processing with the ore of current production. It is established that the technology development using metal leaching is promising for the development of Sadonsky plant deposits.

Effects of Mill Speed and Air Classifier Speed on Performance of an Industrial Ball Mill

Nowadays, ball mills are widely used in cement plants to grind clinker and gypsum to produce cement. The research focuses on the mill speed as well as air classifier speed effect on the two compartment Cement ball mill performance in terms of Blaine, Sulphur trioxide contents, mill power, mill residue and mill residence time. Special importance was assigned to the study of the specific surface area and the surface area production rate, both during the variation with the mill speed and the air classifier speed. Within the content of this work, sampling campaigns were organized around a cement grinding circuit and varying cement ball mill speed as well as an air classifier speed at various dosage feed rate. The fact that such an examination has not been made previously by using industrial data rather than lab scale makes this work unique. The fineness is measured in terms of Blaine number. Mill speed and air classifier speed were the investigating parameters. It was deduced that depending on the speed of mill and air classifier, their effects on Blaine, SO3, mill power and mill performance were varied, ultimately all of them improved the performance of grinding and classification operations. The rapid expansion of ceramic wastes in China has raised great many interests in their sustainable uses in building materials The micro ceramic powder can be taken as a supplementary cementitious material to replace cement up to 40% for tuning the microstructure and mechanical properties of blend cement materials. The Blaine quality dictates strength, setting time and overall performance of cement. Optimum performance of ball mill could potentially refine Blaine fineness, thereby improving the cement quality. This study investigates the effects of separator speed and mill speed on Blaine fineness, mill residue, consumed power. Five speed levels used in closed cycle grinding mill are 200, 400, 600, 800 and 1000 rpm. The capacities were determined to obtain product Blaine surface areas in the limits between 2000 cm2 / gram and Variations in clinker feed rate, mill speed and separator speed could proportionally impact the grain quality of Blaine. When the separator speed is increased from 850 to 900 rpm the Blaine is increased from 2800 to 3000 cm2/g and mill residue decrease from 15 to 10 microns. Therefore, optimum parametric combination could reduce power consumption while improving the cement quality. Knowledge of effects of parametric variations on the quality of end product could be helpful for controlling product quality. Furthermore, proper grinding of clinker produces fine Blaine at first place and reduces the need for recycling of coarse grains.

Current status in the copper ore processing (review)

The article provides the analysis of process flows used for sulfide and oxidized copper ore treatment, reagent schemes, process equipment, indicators of flotation concentration at a number of domestic and foreign concentrating mills and plants. Autogenous and semi-autogenous grinding mills are widely used at the ore preparatory processing at the first stage of grinding to eliminate medium and fine crushing stages. An alternative is the use of high pressure grinding rolls that can reduce electricity consumption as compared to autogenous and semi-autogenous grinding. There is an increase in the use of large-volume and high-performance ore-preparation and flotation equipment for maintaining the quality and quantity of the product. In addition to ball mills, fine and ultrafine regrinding mills of various configurations are widely used at the stage of rougher flotation concentrate regrinding. The analysis of flotation reagents used to improve separation process efficiency was conducted with domestic and foreign approaches to flotation reagent selection shown. It is noted that foreign concentrating mills often use a combination of main and additional collectors. The paper provides the data on flotation reagents used in the copper sulfide and oxidized ore concentration, and their consumption. A combined diagram of flotation-hydrometallurgical processing of mixed copper ore from the Udokan deposit is considered. Conclusions are drawn about current trends in the processing of copper ores including the choice of equipment.

Study on separation of low-rank coal macerals in enhanced gravity field

ABSTRACT In this paper, the enhanced gravity separation of maceral components was studied based on the characteristics of maceral components for low-rank coal from Shendong. Vitrinite and ash content were only 48.42 and 8.77%, respectively. Rod mill grinding showed that the optimal grinding time was 10 min based on the vitrinite content and vitrinite recovery which reached maximum 81.34 and 80.85%, respectively. Maceral separation test conducted with the Falcon concentrator showed that using optimal conditions of rotary frequency 30 Hz, feed dosage 15 ml/s and recoil water pressure 0.03 Mpa, the best vitrinite content, benefication ratio and vitrinite recovery were 67.25%, 1.16, and 72.48%, respectively. With the increase of rotary frequency or decrease of recoil water pressure, the finer particles in each particle fraction became more underflow products, and these finer particles in underflow products were all high-density products with density higher than 1.35 g/cm3. Because the content of vitrinite was higher in the coarser particles, the average particle size of the original overflow product was directly reduced by these fine particles entering the overflow product, which caused the decrease of vitrinite content and the increase of vitrinite recovery.

ИССЛЕДОВАНИЕ МЕТОДОВ ПОДГОТОВКИ ОРГАНОСОДЕРЖАЩИХ СЕЛЬСКОХОЗЯЙСТВЕННЫХ ОТХОДОВ ДЛЯ ИХ ДАЛЬНЕЙШЕЙ ПЕРЕРАБОТКИ В СВЕРХКРИТИЧЕСКОЙ ВОДНОЙ СРЕДЕ

The problem of waste disposal is always acute in all areas of production activity, especially for the agro-industrial complex. Supercritical water oxidation is the most environmentally friendly method for processing organic waste and persistent organic pollutants. In the process of recycling and disposal, along with the harmfulness, one of the main indicators is the initial state of the waste and its suitability for different disposal technologies. (Research purpose) The research purpose is in choosing and justifying the most energy-efficient method of grinding, taking into account the fact that the organ-containing waste under study (buckwheat husk, sunflower, rice) is soft, elastic and fibrous materials. (Materials and methods) The crushing of organic waste to prepare it for further processing was carried out by different methods in roller, ball, knife and colloid mills. A set of sieves with square cells according to GOST 2715-75, a drying cabinet SHS-80-01 SPU, analytical scales Acculab ALC-210d4 (weighing error of no more than 0.5 percent of the sample weight) were used to evaluate the fractional composition of the obtained material. (Results and discussion) At a concentration of 100 grams of husk per 1 liter of water after 30 minutes of wet grinding, the passage of particles through the sieve is 87.1 percent. The article presents the advantage of wet grinding in a knife mill, reveals mathematical dependencies that allow predicting the grinding process to obtain the product of the required dispersion. (Conclusions) The grinding of organ-containing waste in a knife mill by wet grinding is the most optimal technology for preparing this waste for further processing in a supercritical water environment. The obtained mathematical dependencies allow us to predict the grinding process.

Feasibility study on the volume reduction of radioactive concrete wastes using thermomechanical and chemical sequential process

This study describes a method to reduce the volume of radioactive concrete wastes generated during the decommissioning process of nuclear facilities. The method involves thermomechanical and chemical treatment processes sequentially to separate the bulk aggregates from the cement binder; the latter of which contain the majority of the radioactive contaminants. The thermomechanical process acted to weaken the chemical bond between the cement and aggregate components in the concrete. Optimal thermomechanical treatment conditions were determined to be as follows: Isothermal pre-treatment at 550 °C for 1 h using crushed concrete followed by rotary mill grinding for 4 h at room temperature with a 75% loading volume. Such conditions were found to be effective at reducing the volume of the concrete waste, but could not remove the contaminants 137Cs and 60Co from the aggregates completely. Applying the chemical process to remove the contaminants using a hydrochloric acid solution, the clearance criteria for 137Cs and 60Co could be attained for the aggregates separated. Therefore, the radioactive concrete waste could be treated for clearance by the sequential treatment process, thus achieving an approximately 75% volume reduction of the radioactive concrete waste and ultimately lowering the cost of decommissioning and waste disposal.

Investigation of the effect of filling level on the wear and vibration of a SAG mill by DEM

Semi-autogenous grinding (SAG) mill is widely used in the grinding process of coal and ores because of its strong applicability, large capacity and low consumption of grinding media. Therefore, the research of SAG mill is still of great important practical significance. Among those parameters of the SAG mill, the filling level is very important for it is not only directly related to the processing capacity of the mill, but also affects the operation cost and stability of mill. In this paper, combined with shear impact energy model (SIEM) and discrete element method (DEM), the particle collision energy spectrum was applied to analyze the influence of ore filling level and media filling level on the power draw of the mill, the impact energy on ore, and the wear of liner and media in a slice of an industrial SAG mill. It was found that increasing the ore filling level would increase energy consumption and reduce the energy efficiency and the wear of liner and grinding media. Furthermore, the vibration of mill was explored from the collision energy on liner. The results showed that the low frequency but high energy collision between grinding media and liner was the main reason for liner wear and mill vibration.

Application of the lyophilization system for preparation of reference materials for composition of nutrition products

The article presents the application of the lyophilization system for preparation of reference materials (RM) for composition of nutritive products samples. The purpose of the research was the development of lyophilization procedure of RM for composition of poultry meat samples preparation with certified values of mass fraction of moisture, nitrogen (protein) and fat.The poultry meat of two types was used as the primary material for RM for poultry meat composition preparation -1) white meat (chicken breast); 2) red meat (chicken thigh). The procedure included pounding, boiling, freezing and lyophilisation (syn. freeze drying). The researches for homogeneity were implemented with hot air dryer standard system from the State primary standard GET 173-2017. Measurement of nitrogen (protein) mass fraction was performed on State secondary standard GVET176-1-2010. Measurements of fat mass fraction were performed with accordance to State Primary Reference Measurement Procedure.The total time of lyophilization process for samples № 1 and № 2 was 19 and 28 hours, respectively. The total mass loss for sample № 1 was about 63 %, for sample № 2 was about 65 %. The difference in material moisture mass fraction values of materials dried on different trays of freeze dryer was statistically significant, i. e., material was non-homogeneous. To obtain a homogeneous material, an additional homogenization procedure was performed: grinding in a laboratory mill, sieving through a sieve, thorough mixing and conditioning. The certified values of moisture, nitrogen, protein, fat mass fraction for the sample № 1 were accordingly 4,5 %, 14,74 %, 92,1 %, 7,9 %. The same values in the same sequence were 6,3 %, 12,21 %, 76,3 %, 23,8 %.The procedure of lyophilisation was developed for production of reference materials for composition of boiled and freeze-dried poultry meat. The usage of this lyophilisation system allowed to ensure a RM expiration date of six months at ambient temperature of (7±3) °C and relative humidity no more than 60 %. The Reference Materials for composition of boiled and freeze-dried poultry meat was added into Register of certified RMs under № GSO 11276-2019 by the results.

Semi-Autogenous Wet Grinding Modeling with CFD-DEM

The paper highlights the features of constructing a model of a wet semi-autogenous grinding mill based on the discrete element method and computational fluid dynamics. The model was built using Rocky DEM (v. 4.4.2, ESSS, Brazil) and Ansys Fluent (v. 2020 R2, Ansys, Inc., United States) software. A list of assumptions and boundary conditions necessary for modeling the process of wet semi-autogenous grinding by the finite element method is presented. The created model makes it possible to determine the energy-coarseness ratios of the semi-autogenous grinding (SAG) process under given conditions. To create the model in Rocky DEM the following models were used: The Linear Spring Rolling Limit rolling model, the Hysteretic Linear Spring model of the normal interaction forces and the Linear Spring Coulomb Limit for tangential forces. When constructing multiphase in Ansys Fluent, the Euler model was used with the primary phase in the form of a pulp with a given viscosity and density, and secondary phases in the form of air, crushing bodies and ore particles. The resistance of the solid phase to air and water was described by the Schiller–Naumann model, and viscosity by the realizable k-epsilon model with a dispersed multiphase turbulence model. The results of the work methods for material interaction coefficients determination were developed. A method for calculating the efficiency of the semi-autogenous grinding process based on the results of numerical simulation by the discrete element method is proposed.