Cool your grinding process with the INJECTOR

The movement of the grinding balls generates intense heat. This heat is absorbed by the material and so the material temperature rises steadily as it passes through the mill.

The product properties of some materials, such as cement, can change when becomeing too hot, for example due to gypsum dehydration. Design aspects that can limit a maximum mill temperature, such as lubrication, also come into play. The more grinding energy the production of the product requires the more likely water injection is important and necessary. More energy is needed when material has to be ground very finely, or the raw material is very difficult to grind.

Water injection helps to control the temperature in the mill. There are different causes of heat generation in the grinding process, so different water injection systems are required. For example, if the fresh material is very hot, water injection, e.g. clinker >120°C, a water injection system is used at the mill inlet. In most cases, from a process engineering point of view, a water injection system in the second grinding chamber makes sense to control the steadily increasing heat, generated by grinding. The technically most reasonable solution depends on the bearing and the drive of the mill.

How the water injection can be realized constructively depends on the bearing and the drive of the mill. There are different solutions for these variations, which are also reflected in the price. For each mill, we look for the solution that makes the most sense in terms of process technology and design and is most attractive in terms of price.

Water in a cement grinding process must be used with caution. The outlet temperature of the material and the mill exhaust air from the mill always has to be >100°C. This ensures that the injected water is brought to evaporation and leaves the mill in the air stream. The energy required for the evaporation of the water is extracted from the material and the grinding ball charge, resulting in efficient cooling.

Since the water heating and evaporation happen very quickly, there is no hydration reaction of the cement. The principle is simple: The finer the nozzle, the finer the water droplets, and the finer the water droplets, the faster the heat extraction by evaporation.