THERMAL SCIENCE
International Scientific Journal
PRACTICAL ASSESSMENT OF GRINDING CAPACITY AND POWER CONSUMPTION BASED ON HARDGROVE GRINDABILITY INDEX AND COAL CHARACTERISTICS
ABSTRACT
This paper analyzes the effects of coal grindability and its characteristics on the grinding capacity and power consumption for beater wheel mill during exploitation in thermal power plant TENT B in Obrenovac, Serbia. For this purpose, experiments were made on the mill, before and after its reconstruction. Experiments included the determination of grinding capacity, mill power consumption and laboratory analysis of coal characteristics and Hardgrove grindability index (HGI). The analysis of experimental results found that the grinding capacity has a negative correlation with the ash content in coal. Moisture content in analysis sample of coal has a positive correlation with the consumption of electricity and grinding capacity. Between the grinding capacity and the value of HGI exists a negative correlation. Analysis of the influence of grindability of coal and coal characteristics on grinding capacity and energy consumption was carried out. Based on coal characteristics and values of HGI, mathematical expressions were derived for the calculation of grinding capacity and electric energy consumption. In addition, ability to predict specific power consumption of the mill on the basis of HGI values, were carried out. Specific power consumption obtained from HGI values showed good agreement with the experimentally determined specific power consumption of the mill. [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. III 42010]
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PAPER SUBMITTED: 2018-06-05
PAPER REVISED: 2019-05-01
PAPER ACCEPTED: 2019-09-13
PUBLISHED ONLINE: 2019-10-06
THERMAL SCIENCE YEAR
2019, VOLUME
23, ISSUE
Supplement 5, PAGES [S1533 - S1542]
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