Hammer Milling
“A hammermill is a machine whose purpose is to shred or crush aggregate material into smaller pieces.”
“The basic principle is straightforward. A hammermill is essentially a steel drum containing a vertical or horizontal rotating shaft or drum on which hammers are mounted. The hammers are free to swing on the ends of the cross, or fixed to the central rotor. The rotor is spun at a high speed inside the drum while material is fed into a feed hopper. The material is impacted by the hammer bars and is thereby shredded and expelled through screens in the drum of a selected size.”
(Wikipedia, Hammer Mill, 12/4/2010)
Recent Journal Articles
12/3/2010
Development of a novel particle size control system for hammer milling
(681-685) Advanced Powder Technology 21 #6 (2010)
Takeuchi et al developed a feedback control system based on a fuzzy logic for controlling particle size of products in the dry grinding process.based on an on-line particle size measurement system. (RDC 11/29/2010)