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Microscale investigation of thermally assisted comminution

Conference ·
OSTI ID:276698
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  1. Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States). Comminution Center

Thermal pretreatment can significantly improve industrial comminution operations by reducing energy requirements and increasing mineral liberation. The effect of pretreatment using conventional and dielectric heating followed by quenching on the fracture characteristics of a number of single and multiphase brittle materials has been investigated using the Ultrafast Load Cell. It has been observed that very significant reductions in both fracture energies and the material integrity (damage) were achieved by heating followed by water quenching.

OSTI ID:
276698
Report Number(s):
CONF-9510120--; ISBN 0-87335-139-8
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English