Grinding processes are used to prepare mineral raw materials for processing in the mining, metallurgical, chemical industries, powder metallurgy, production of building materials, glass, plastics, ceramics, solid fuels and other types of fine materials. Products are mainly ground in energy-intensive ball, jet and planetary mills. Grinding costs are significant, and the quality of the resulting products does not always reach the required level.
The idea of an optimization consists in constant monitoring values of acoustic signal amplitude and activity of a grinding and qualifier zone, their processing and comparison of the established criteria with their control values. At a significant deviation of criteria there can be carried out additional material loading or classification mode changes. Testing this optimization for laboratory and industrial jet grinding has shown satisfactory result concurrence that has proved the revealed grinding optimization principles for innovative technology.
