Improving yield and shape in a crushing plant
Journal article, 2009

There is increasing demand to optimise yield and increase capacity of crushing plants. Research in this area has resulted in the development of numerous optimisation tools, and resent research has shown that the economic aspects of production have great influence on the optimisation results. The profitability of a product is influenced by several parameters, and control of all these parameters is necessary to use some sort of optimisation software. In this paper, we present a case study of a typical crushing plant, with the goal of reducing the number of crusher while keeping the plant capacity and quality. By reducing the number of crusher the plant will need less maintenance which will decrease the operating costs. The article presents a method to combine crushing plant simulation and optimisation with quality and economic considerations in order to successfully study alternative configurations of the plant.

Modelling

Crushing

Author

Magnus Bengtsson

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Product Development

Per Svedensten

Magnus Evertsson

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Product Development

Minerals Engineering

0892-6875 (ISSN)

Vol. 22 7-8 618-624

Subject Categories

Other Engineering and Technologies not elsewhere specified

DOI

10.1016/j.mineng.2009.02.001

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10/8/2017