The Key Factor in Choosing Rod Mill or Ball Mill

Ball mills and rod mills are both excellent mining machines for grinding ores into fine powders and particles. However there are some advantages to using rod mills rather than ball mills for larger mining projects including greater efficiency, better grinding performance and lower energy costs. Though ball mills are used more often rod mills can be the better option for specific mining ores and larger site projects.The rod mill and ball mill are both used in the ore grinding process. According to different working conditions, rod mill is suitable for coarse grinding but the ball mill is suitable for fine grinding. The reason is that the grinding medium of rod mill is steel bar and the contact is line contact, so rod mill is also called pin crusher. However, the grinding medium of ball mill is steel ball and the contact is point contact, so rod mill is also called crushing mill. To sum up, the different contact types decide the different grinding granularityThe key factor in choosing a rod mill over a ball mill is void space. You ideally want as little open space as possible so you have more grinding contact between the rods and the ore. Ball mills need more open space so the balls inside can cascade and grind but this space lessens the contact between metal and ore per surface area. Again, depending on the site project media rod mills won’t necessarily always be the better option but if you are concerned about void space in your grinding process a rod mill may be the right choice.If you are working on a mining site dig that is excavating large pieces of rock, coal, copper or other mining media than a rod mill may be a better fit than a ball mill. Steel rods are more suited to breaking up larger pieces of ore due to the heavier weight of the rods. As well, heavier ore produces more energy per collision which can be better optimized by steel rods rather than balls. If you need to grind mining media down to fine particles than a ball mill is recommended but if the...