Manufacturing processes Ball mill process

A primary method of mechanochemical synthesis of nanostructured hydrides (nanohydrides) is processing by mechanical (ball) milling. Processes of manufacturing of nanocrystalline/nanostructured hydrides by ball milling are shown in Fig. 1.21. 

Manufacture. (1) Stamp process. Aluminium foil scrap is put into an iron mortar with rape oil, beef tallow or olive oil etc, crushed by a hammer which moves up and down and then it is sieved. Tlie contents of the mortar are then transferred to a cylindrical drum, to which some lubricant like stearic acid is added, and the drum is then revolved for glazing to take place. (2) Ball mill process. Aluminium scrap or foil is charged into a ball mill with some lubricant or benzine, and crushed. In some cases an inert gas is introduced into the mill in place of benzine. (3) Atomizing process. Melted aluminium is scattered by spraying molten metal in a jet of air to produce fine particles. 

Lead Monoxide. Lead monoxide (litharge), PbO, occurs as a reddish alpha form, which is stable up to 489°C where it transforms to a yellow beta form (massicot). The latter is stable at high temperatures. The solubihty of a-PbO ia water is 0.0504 g/L at 25°C the solubihty of the p-PbO is 0.1065 g/L at 25°C (40). Lead monoxide is amphoteric and dissolves ia both acids and alkahes. In alkahes, it forms the plumbite ion PbO - The monoxide is produced commercially by the reaction of molten lead with air or oxygen ia a furnace. Black or gray oxide is manufactured by the Barton process, by the oxidation of atomized molten lead ia air, as well as by the ball mill process, ia which metallic lead balls of high purity are tumbled ia the mill to form partially oxidized lead particles. 

Cemented carbides and nitrides are manufactured by a powder metallurgy process using liquid phase sintering (Figure 2.1). The cobalt or nickel binder metal, in the form of fine powder, is blended with the carbide or nitride powders in ball mills or attritor mills lined with carbide sleeves. 

The technology of production of aluminum powders and flakes dates back to 1930 when a safe process of manufacture was developed by Hall of Columbia University. This method is still used today for most manufactured pigments. The principle of manufacture is based on wet ball milling aluminum in the presence of a lubricant and mineral spirits. 

CAC require large industrial facilities, similar to those used to make ordinary Portland cement. The raw materials for CAC are typically bauxite and limestone, which are ball-milled and mixed together to form a feed of appropriate composition, which is fed into rotary kilns to form a calcium aluminate clinker. The clinker is ball-milled to produce the cement. Analysis for composition and mineralogy at various stages of manufacture are essential to ensure a consistent product, see for example Chakraborty and Chattopadhyay [32] for a discussion of the bulk processing of high alumina CAC. 

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Fig. 6.74S Diagram of the manufacturing process of (hollow) building blocks made from lime and sand. 1, lime ball mill 2, elevator 3, wind sifter 4, 9, n, silos 5, metering bucket 6, screw conveyor 7, sand feed 8, screen 10, batch mixing and...

The crystal modification of the lead oxide depends on the conditions of its manufacture. At temperatures of oxidation below 470 °C (as is the case with ball mill PbO), the tetragonal polymorph is formed. If oxidation is performed in the temperature range of 460—470 °C through the Barton process, 60—70 wt% of the lead oxide formed is tetragonal (a-PbO), 15—20 wt% is orthorhombic (p-PbO) and the remaining balance is amorphous lead oxide. 

As the last step in Portland cement manufacture, Portland clinker, in combination with limited amounts of gypsum and/or anhydrite, has to be ground to a fine powder. A ball mill is the standard equipment used for this purpose. It was reported recently (Goldstein, 1997) that the power consumption in the grinding process may be reduced if—in place of a single clinker—a blend of two clinkers is used, of which one has a higher and the other a lower lime saturation factor. 

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