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According to the modes of action of crushing force,crusher can be roughly divided into two categories:
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Debris Crushing Introduction
Construction waste crushing system (debris

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Limestone crushing machine:
Limestone crusher machine could replace blasting to mine limestone at the quarry site. These small limestone size are used as construction building materials.

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Stone Crushing Industry
Stone Crushing Industry is an important industrial sector in the country engaged in producing crushed stone of various sizes depending upon the requirement which acts as raw material for various construction activities such as construction of Roads, Highways, Bridges, Buildings, Canals etc. It is estimated that there are over 12,000

Introduction
The discrete element method (DEM) was first proposed by Cundall and Strack to model the behaviour of soil particles subject to dynamic loading conditions . Mishra and Rajamani pioneered the application of DEM to grinding mills and demonstrated that despite the fact that the DEM simulations are based on two dimensions (2D), the technique is able to predict the power draw of mills with reasonable accuracy over a wide range of mill diameters . More than 10 years since then, the DEM technique has been successfully applied to ball mills , SAG mills and centrifugal mills.
Introduction
DEM has also been applied to study impact-induced particle breakage. Using DEM simulation of impact breakage of agglomerates and aggregates that are hardened by cement, different parameters that influence the impact fracture have been analysed. In some studies, the finite element method (FEM) is usually adopted to determine stress patterns, and DEM has been used to show crack distributions in rocks under loading. Also, using DEM modeling of the compressive strength and drop weight test, the relationship between strain rate, impact energy and the degree of fragmentation has been determined.
Nine rocks with different mechanical properties were modelled as granular assemblies in the shape of a sphere and/or a cube. Each rock as a single particle was modelled while it was crushed in a laboratory

COLD PLANING
Cold planing, or cold milling, is a controlled and highly productive process by which asphalt or concrete pavement is ground up and removed to a certain depth in order to repair or re-profile pavement surfaces.
Cold planing is used to re-establish pavement profiles. This improves drainage flow from pavement irregularities, such as wheel ruts, washboarding and excessive pavement heights at curbs and gutters. This process can also be used to remove deteriorated pavements for future overlays or be used with a fine texturing attachment to improve skid resistance and be left as a final driving surface.
Pallette Stone — a proud member of the D.A. Collins family of businesses — has completed many cold planing projects, including interstate highways, municipal streets, bridges, parking lots and airports. By maintaining a variety of

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
A. Impact and Outcome
10. The impact of the TA will be reduced negative environmental impacts from waste coal heaps in Shanxi Province. The outcome of the TA will be a set of recommended policy measures to increase waste coal use in Shanxi Province.
B. Methodology and Key Activities
11. The TA will (i) provide a comprehensive utilization plan and policy recommendations for waste coal, (ii) introduce advanced energy-efficient technologies for waste coal power generation and a technical due diligence report for a 600-MW waste coal power plant utilizing CFBC technology with supercritical steam parameters, and (iii) disseminate knowledge on advanced energy-efficient technology for waste coal power generation.
12. The activities consist of two components.
(i) Component A: Development of a comprehensive plan for waste coal use and policy recommendations, and introduction of advanced energy-efficient technologies. This component will prepare a comprehensive utilization plan for waste coal for the Pingshuo coal mine in Shanxi Province. It will analyze existing policy and regulatory frameworks and make recommendations on policy measures to promote waste coal power generation.
It will analyze (a) existing technology of 600-MW supercritical CFBC and its key components; (b) thermal design methods, hydrodynamic force calculation methods, technical feasibility of outside-sets of heat exchangers, and antirubbing technology for 600-MW supercritical CFBC chambers; and (c) boiler auxiliary

Coal fields in Arkansas are located in the Arkansas River Valley between the western border of the state and Russellville (Pope County) an area only about thirty-three miles wide and sixty miles long. Until about 1880, most coal mined in Arkansas was used near its original location, often to fuel the fires of blacksmiths. Between 1880 and 1920, coal was Arkansas’s first mineral/fuel output, used especially for locomotives and steam-powered machines, as well as for heating homes and businesses. After 1920, oil and oil byproducts pushed aside the popularity of coal as a fuel, and

The goal of coal

About coal crushing breaker:
Crushing refers to the process that the bulk materials are cracked into small particles. Crushing process is decided according to the degree of materials’ grindability. For coal crushing, we need to consider the hardness and humidity of coal mine,

Clay:
The clays are mainly used in making bricks, ceramic wares, cement and also for landfill. In europe countries, clays mainly are divided into Kaolin, Fire clay, Ball clay, Bentonite, Fuller,s earth, Common clay.
Clay quarrying in Malaysia:
There are abundant clay resources found throughout the country. These clays include common clay, ball clay, fire clay, shale, laterite and red earth. Deposits of clays are located in the states of Pahang, Selangor, Terengganu, Kelantan, Perak, Kedah, Pulau Pinang, Negeri Sembilan, Johore and Sarawak. Production of clays in 2007 increased to 28,292,423 tonnes from 25,081,174 tonnes produced in 2006.
In Malaysia, there are many companies which supplies all kinds of clays. RADIANT PROVINCE supplies ball clays. CLAYBRICKS & TILES SDN BHD is the largest manufacturer of quality burnt clay products in Malaysia. The state-of-the-art plant, which is located in Kota Tinggi, Johor produces a variety of burnt clay products ranging from facing bricks, paver, brick veneer to utility and accessory bricks at a capacity of 100 million bricks per annum.
The products consist of a wide variety of colours and textures, ranging from smooth face, bark face, rock face, wire-cut, cobble, tumble and sand blast and the colors from white, cream, grey, terracotta, brown, lavender to many other combinations. As one of the core businesses of Cahya Mata Sarawak Group since 1974, CMS Cement now enjoys the distinction of being an integrated cement manufacturer with seamless delivery enabled by direct access to raw materials, through clinker production and quarry operations.
Clay Production

The Water Scalping-Classifying Tank was designed to meet federal and state aggregate specifications which are continually tightening. The function of the Water Scalping-Classifying Tank is to remove excess water and slimes, classify material by removal of excess in certain sizes, and retention of fines.
Slurry containing sand is introduced into the Tank at the feed end. As the slurry flows to the opposite end, solids settle to the bottom. Because of the difference in weight of different mesh sizes, material is automatically classified as it settles. Coarse material drops out first, near the feed end. Materials are progressively finer along the length of the Tank. At each setting station along the bottom of the Tank there are valves for discharging sand into the multi-cell collecting-blending flume for selective reblending. From there the sand is discharged into a Fine Material Washer; or Washers.
Gradation of the feed material in many pits may vary considerably, resulting in fluctuations in the amount of material passing through each valve. Originally the only method of controlling the specifications for the sand was with our Standard Series, requiring taking frequent samples of the product, and then manually readjusting the metering splitter gates. With modern technology, however, there are three control systems that will perform this task quite effectively.

Location: Central Ashanti region of Ghana in West Africa.
ReservesProven: 18.4Mt graded at 1.4g/t Au; Probable: 37.2 Mt graded at 1.1g/t Au.
Geology: TypeIntensely folded and faulted birimian flysch-type metasediments of the Paleoproterozoic age.
Mineralization Type: Narrow quartz veins within granite structures.
Production Scheduled: 2011
Estimated Mine Life: 10.2 years
The Central Ashanti gold mine is located approximately 57km south-west of Obuasi town and 195km north-west of Ghana’s capital Accra. Formerly known as Ayanfuri gold project, the mine has produced in excess of 300,000oz of gold between 1994 and 2001. It is owned by Central Ashanti Gold Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Perseus, which owns 650km² of tenements on the Ashanti gold belt.
The project is currently in the planning stage with a detailed feasibility study completed in July 2009. Production is scheduled to begin in 2011. The life of the mine is estimated to be approximately ten years.
Gold Mine Reserves
The mine contains an estimated 18.4Mt of proven reserves graded at 1.4g/t Au and 37.2 Mt of probable reserves graded at 1.1g/t Au. Measured and indicated resources total 29.9Mt graded at 2.1g/t Au. Inferred resources have been estimated to be 62.1Mt at 2.2g/t.
Gold Mine Geology
The deposit is hosted within the Man Shield of the Precambrian aged West African Craton. The deposit flanks the western end of the Ashanti greenstone belt along the Obuasi-Akropong gold corridor.
Intensely folded and faulted birimian flysch-type metasediments of the Paleoproterozoic age overlie the entire project area.
These sediments are metamorphosed to upper greenschist faces and include dacitic volcaniclastics, greywackes and argillaceous (phyllitic) sediments.
The sediments are intruded along multiple regional bodies by a number of small basin-type or Cape Coast-type granite structures.
The intrusions vary in size and shape from 200m to 400m long and 40 to 150m wide egg-shaped plugs, to longer and narrower sills and dykes that measure more than 2,000m in length and between 50m and 100m in width.
Regionally, the deposit hosts minor amounts of cherty and manganiferous exhalative sediments. Graphitic schists coincide with the main shear (thrust) zones. Parallel to partially parallel cleavage and bedding follow the regional trend of the 50° striking, steep to near vertical, southeast and north-west dipping Akropong structures.
Mineralisation
Gold mineralisation at the mine is found primarily within granite structures. Two or three generations of several, narrow quartz veins host the mineralisation. The quartz veins are associated with nearly 3% pyrite, minor arsenopyrite and lesser amounts of sphalerite, chalcopyrite, galena and rutile.
Gold observed at or near the margins of the veins, occurs as fine grains along the boundaries of sulphide grain or in sulphide fractures. Coarse visible gold is hosted within the quartz. Mineralisation also occurs in shear zones that host the classic Ashanti-style sediments.

Cement milling is usually carried out using ball mills with two or more separate chambers containing different sizes of grinding media (steel balls).
Grinding clinker requires a lot of energy. How easy a particular clinker is to grind (“grindability”) is difficult to predict, but rapid cooling of the clinker is thought to improve grindability due to the presence of microcracks in alite and to the finer crystal size of the flux phases. It is frequently observed that belite crystals, which have a characteristic round shape, tend to separate and form single crystal grains during grinding.
As part of the grinding process, calcium sulfate is added as a set regulator, usually in the form of gypsum (CaSO4.2H2O). Natural anhydrite may also be added to discourage lumpiness of the gypsum due to its water content.
Since the clinker gets hot in the mill due to the heat generated by grinding, gypsum can be partly dehydrated. It then forms hemihydrate, or plaster of Paris – 2CaSO4.H2O. On further heating, hemihydrate dehydrates further to a form of calcium sulfate known as soluble anhydrite (~CaSO4). This has a similar solubility in water to hemihydrate, which in turn has a higher solubility than either gypsum or natural anhydrite.
Cement mills need to be cooled to limit the temperature rise of the cement. This is done by a mixture of both air-cooling and water-cooling, including spraying water inside the mill.
The relative proportions and different solubilities of these various types of calcium sulfate are of importance in controlling the rate the rate of C3A hydration and consequently of cement set retardation. Problems associated with setting and strength characteristics of concrete can often be traced to changes in the quantity of gypsum and hemihydrate, or with variations in cooling rate of the clinker in the kiln and subsequent changes in the proportions or size of the C3A crystals.
For set regulation, the most important feature of aluminate is not necessarily the absolute amount present, but the amount of surface which is available to water for reaction. This will be governed by many factors, such as the surface area of the cement, the grinding characteristics of the different phases and also the size of the aluminate crystals. Over-large crystals can lead to erratic setting characteristics.

If you happen to be a geologist, the raw materials quarry is probably the most interesting part of a cement works, maybe unless you view the clinkering process as igneous rocks in the making.
The most common raw rock types used in cement production are:- Limestone (supplies the bulk of the lime)
- Clay, marl or shale (supplies the bulk of the silica, alumina and ferric oxide)
- Other supplementary materials such as sand, pulverised fuel ash (PFA), or ironstone to achieve the
Desired bulk compositionQuarry management is an art. Most quarries will probably have “good material” from which cement can easily be made. They may also have some material that is not as good; this might be harder to grind, or be of less convenient composition.
If the ‘good stuff’ is all used up first, it may be difficult to make cement out of what is left. Careful selection on a day-to-day basis is needed to make the best use of all the materials available.
Raw materials are extracted from the quarry, then crushed and ground as necessary to provide a fine material for blending. Most of the material is usually ground finer than 90 microns – the fineness is often expressed in terms of the percentage retained on a 90 micron sieve.
Once the the raw materials are ground fine enough, they are blended in the proportions required to produce clinker of the desired composition.
The blended raw materials are stored in a silo before being fed into the kiln. The silo stores several days’ supply of material to provide a buffer against any glitches in the supply of raw material from the quarry.
Technically, a cement producer can have almost complete control over clinker composition by blending raw materials of different compositions to produce the desired result. In practice, however, clinker composition is largely determined by the compositions of the locally-available raw materials which make up the bulk of the raw meal.
Supplementary materials are used to adjust the composition of the raw meal but cost and availability are likely to determine the extent to which they are used. Transport costs in particular become significant in view of the large quantities of materials used in making cement.

By the process of hydration (reaction with water) Portland cement mixed with sand gravel and water produces the synthetic rock we call concrete. Concrete is as essential a part of the modern world as are electricity or computers.
Other pages on this web site describe how PC is made and what is in it. Here, we will discuss what happens when it is mixed with water.
Clinker is anhydrous (without water) having come from a hot kiln. Cement powder is also anhydrous if we ignore the small amount of water in any gypsum added at the clinker grinding stage.
The reaction with water is termed “hydration”. This involves many different reactions, often occurring at the same time. As the reactions proceed, the products of the hydration process gradually bond together the individual sand and gravel particles, and other components of the concrete, to form a solid mass.
The hydration process: reactions
In the anhydrous state, four main types of minerals are normally present: alite, belite, aluminate (C3A) and a ferrite phase (C4AF). For more information on the composition of clinker, see the clinker pages. Also present are small amounts of clinker sulfate (sulfates of sodium, potassium and calcium) and also gypsum, which was added when the clinker was ground up to produce the familiar grey powder.
When water is added, the reactions which occur are mostly exothermic, that is, the reactions generate heat. We can get an indication of the rate at which the minerals are reacting by monitoring the rate at which heat is evolved using a technique called conduction calorimetry. An illustrative example of the heat evolution curve produced is shown below.
Three principal reactions occur:
Almost immediately on adding water some of the clinker sulphates and gypsum dissolve producing an alkaline, sulfate-rich, solution.
Soon after mixing, the (C3A) phase (the most reactive of the four main clinker minerals) reacts with the water to form an aluminate-rich gel (Stage I on the heat evolution curve above). The gel reacts with sulfate in solution to form small rod-like crystals of ettringite. (C3A) reaction is with water is strongly exothermic but does not last long, typically only a few minutes, and is followed by a period of a few hours of relatively low heat evolution. This is called the dormant, or induction period (Stage II).
The first part of the dormant period, up to perhaps half-way through, corresponds to when concrete can be placed. As the dormant period progresses, the paste becomes too stiff to be workable.
At the end of the dormant period, the alite and belite in the cement start to react, with the formation of calcium silicate hydrate and calcium hydroxide. This corresponds to the main period of hydration (Stage III), during which time concrete strengths increase. The individual grains react from the surface inwards, and the anhydrous particles become smaller. (C3A) hydration also continues, as fresh crystals become accessible to water.
The period of maximum heat evolution occurs typically between about 10 and 20 hours after mixing and then gradually tails off. In a mix containing PC only, most of the strength gain has occurred within about a month. Where PC has been partly-replaced by other materials, such as fly ash, strength growth may occur more slowly and continue for several months or even a year.
Ferrite reaction also starts quickly as water is added, but then slows down, probably because a layer of iron hydroxide gel forms, coating the ferrite and acting as a barrier, preventing further reaction.  
Hydration products
The products of the reaction between cement and water are termed “hydration products.” In concrete (or mortar or other cementitious materials) there are typically four main types:
Calcium silicate hydrate: this is the main reaction product and is the main source of concrete strength. It is often abbreviated, using cement chemists’ notation, to “C-S-H,” the dashes indicating that no strict ratio of SiO2 to CaO is inferred. The Si/Ca ratio is somewhat variable but typically approximately 0.45-0.50 in hydrated Portland cement but up to perhaps about 0.6 if slag or fly ash or microsilica is present, depending on the proportions.
Calcium hydroxide – Ca(OH)2: often abbreviated to ‘CH.’ CH is formed mainly from alite hydration. Alite has a Ca:Si ratio of 3:1 and C-S-H has a Ca/Si ratio of approximately 2:1, so excess lime is available to produce CH.
AFm and AFt phases: these are two groups of minerals that occur in cement, and elsewhere. One of the most common AFm phases in hydrated cement is monosulfate. By far the most common AFt phase in hydrated cement is ettringite. The general definitions of these phases are somewhat technical, but for example, ettringite is an AFt phase because it contains three (t-tri) molecules of anhydrite when written as C3A.3CaSO4.32H2O and monosulfate is an AFm phase because it contains one (m-mono) molecule of anhydrite when written as C3A.CaSO4.12H2O.
The most common AFt and AFm phases in hydrated cement are:
Ettringite: ettringite is present as rod-like crystals in the early stages of reaction or sometimes as massive growths filling pores or cracks in mature concrete or mortar. The chemical formula for ettringite is [Ca3Al(OH)6.12H2O]2.2H2O] or, mixing notations, C3A.3CaSO4.32H2O.
Monosulfate: monosulfate tends to occur in the later stages of hydration, a day or two after mixing. The chemical formula for monosulfate is C3A.CaSO4.12H2O. Note that both ettringite and monosulfate are compounds of C3A, CaSO4 (anhydrite) and water, in different proportions.
Monocarbonate: the presence of fine limestone, whether interground with the cement or present as fine limestone aggregate, is likely to produce monocarbonate (C3A.CaCO3.11H2O) as some of the limestone reacts with the cement pore fluid. Other AFm phases that may be present are hemicarbonate, hydroxy-AFm and Friedel’s salt.
Some important points to note about AFm and AFt phases are that:

They contain a lot of water, especially AFt – principally ettringite in the context of cement.
AFm contains a higher ratio of aluminium/calcium compared with AFt.
The aluminium can be partly-replaced by iron in both AFm and AFt phases.
The sulfate ion in monosulfate AFm phase can be replaced by other anions; a one-for-one substitution if the anion is doubly-charged (eg: carbonate, CO22-) or one-for-two if the substituent anion is singly-charged (eg: hydroxyl, OH- or chloride, Cl-).
The sulfate in ettringite can be replaced by carbonate or, probably, partly replaced by two hydroxyl ions, although in practice neither of these is often observed.

In a concrete made from cement containing just clinker and gypsum, ettringite forms early on in the hydration process, but gradually replaced by monosulfate. This is because the ratio of available alumina to sulfate increases with continued cement hydration; on first contact with water, most of the sulfate is readily available to dissolve, but much of the C3A is contained inside cement grains with no initial access to water. Continued hydration gradually releases alumina and the proportion of ettringite decreases as that of monosulfate increases.
If there is eventually more alumina than sulfate available, all the sulfate will be as monosulfate, with the additional alumina present as hydroxyl-substituted AFm phase (hydroxy-AFm). If there is a small excess of sulfate, the cement paste will contain a mixture of monosulfate and ettringite. With increasing available sulfate, there will be more ettringite and less monosulfate, and at even higher levels of sulfate there will be ettringite and gypsum.
If fine limestone is present, carbonate ions become available as some of the limestone reacts. The carbonate displaces sulfate or hydroxyl in AFm; the proportion of monosulfate or hydroxy-AFm therefore decreases as the proportion of monocarbonate increases. The displaced sulfate typically combines with remaining monosulfate to form ettringite, but if any hydroxy-AFm is present, the sulfate will displace the hydroxyl ions to form more monosulfate. The key here is the balance between available alumina on the one hand, and carbonate and sulfate on the other.
Hydrogarnet: hydrogarnet forms mainly as the result of ferrite or C3A hydration. Hydrogarnets have a range of compositions, of which C3AH6 is the most common phase forming from normal cement hydration and then only in small amounts. A wider range of hydrogarnet compositions can be found in autoclaved cement products.

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