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Size Reduction Q&A

  •   I need an economical means of breaking up clumps in a hygroscopic powder bulk. The clumps are fairly hard, with the larger clumps needing to be broken up by hand or with a mortar and pestle. I would need a machine that could break these down as gently as possible, since we are screening for size afterwards. Do you have any recommendations?

    Answered October 28th, 2009 by Expert: The Jet Pulverizer Expert Group

    Thank you for this interesting application. We talked with some delumper experts first and all agreed if a high speed hammer or tooth hits the large lumps they will tend to disintegrate to their elemental size. We believe the simplest solution would be a jaw crusher type mill set slightly larger than pea size. You would still get some fines but not nearly as many.

    A more elegant but more expensive solution with a near 100% yield would be to delump the material and then pass it through a granulator to compact it all to a uniform pea size. Good luck with your project.

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