HPGR simulation from piston-die tests with an itabirite ore

Abstract

Abstract The Minas Rio project, owned by Anglo American, has HPGRs in open circuit operated as a tertiary/quaternary crushing stage. Currently this type of equipment is designed from HPGR tests on laboratory scale and pilot scale tests. This paper presents a methodology for simulating HPGR from piston-die tests on laboratory scale and a mathematical model developed in Hacettepe University in Turkey. The parameters determined from the results of the piston-die tests were used to validate the HPGR testing on pilot scale. Finally, the model was used to predict the particle size distribution in the HPGR product on industrial scale.

Keywords

• HPGR
• modeling
• simulation
• piston-die
• Minas-Rio