Abstract
High pressure roller mills have been used successfully for grinding brittle materials since 1985. The advantages of this new technology are, less energy consumption, less wear and noise emission and a smaller mill size compared with ball mills. The HP-roller mill achieves comminution in a particle bed stressed by a high pressure. The performance of this mill differs from that of a ball mill with respect to the decoupling of throughput and comminution action. To operate a HP-roller mill, one has to understand the features of interparticle breakage, the interdependence of milling force and energy absorption, the capacity issue and the wear problem.
