SIEVE

SHAKER
INSTRUCTION MANUAL

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EXPERIMENTATION
SIEVE SHAKER
INTRODUCTION
SIEVE SHAKERS are used for mechanical separation of dry, hard grains
ordinarily pass without trouble through screens. Screens, which are rapidly
vibrated with small amplitude, are less likely to blind (a screen plugged with
solid is said to be blinded.) than are gyrating screen. Mechanical vibrations
are usually transmitted from high speed eccentrics to the casing of the unit
and from there to screens. Ordinarily no more than three decks are used in
vibrating screens.
The objective is if screen is to accept mixture of particles of various sizes and
separate it into two fractions, an underflow that is passes through screen and
an overflow that is rejected by screen. Either one or both of these streams
may be a product.
THEORY:
Screening is a method of separating particles
AIM:
To determine the screen effectiveness of screens.
PROCEDURE:
1. Start SIEVE SHAKER and set for a known time.
2. Weigh sample accurately.
3. Pour sample on screen and allow the sample to screen thoroughly.
4. Remove screens from unit carefully.
5. Weigh sample retained on each screen.
6. Calculate weight fraction of each sample retained on every screen.
7. Calculate screen effectiveness.

Material balances over screen:

Simple material balances can be written over a screen, which are useful in
calculating the ratios of feed, oversize and underflow from the screen
analyses of the three streams and knowledge of the desired cut dia.

F = Mass flow rate of the feed.

D = Mass flow rate of overflow.
B = Mass flow rate of under flow.
Xf = Mass fraction of material A in feed.
XD = Mass fraction of material A in overflow.
Xb = Mass fraction of material A in underflow.
The mass fraction material B in feed, overflow, and underflow are
and

1-Xb.

1- Xf, 1-Xd

Since the total material feed to the screen must leave it either as

overflow or as underflow.

F=D+B

-------------------------------- ( 1 )

The material A in the feed must also leave in the streams and

FXf = DXd = BXb

(2)
Elimination of B from equations ( 1) and ( 2 ) gives.

D = Xf - Xb
F = Xd Xb
Elimination of D gives,

X d X
X d X b
B
=
F
f

--------------------------------

Screen effectiveness of a screen (often called as a screen efficiency) is a

measure of the success of a screen in closely separating material A & B. If a
screen functioned perfectly. All material should be in overflow and all of the
material B would be in underflow.

A common measure of screen

effectiveness is the ratio of oversize material A that is actually in the overflow

to the amount of a entering with the feed. These quantities are DXd and FXf
respectively. Thus,

Ea =

D Xd
F Xf

Where Ea is the screen effectiveness based on the oversize.

Similarly an

effectiveness Eb based on the undersize material is given by

Eb =

B(1x b )
F (1X f )

A combined overall effectiveness can be defined as the product of the two

individual ratios and denoted by E,

E=E a . E b=

D. B X d (1X b )
F2 X f (1X f )

Substituting D/F and B/F from equations (3) and (4),

X
2
( dX b) (1 X f ) X f
( X X b)(X d X f ) X d (1X b)
E= f

Screen

Size

Mass of particle

No.

in

Retained

M.M.

gms.
A
C

on

Mass fraction

Cumulative mass

screen

Fraction of oversize
A

A
C

Here A = feed. B = Overflow, c = underflow

Plot a graph of screen size v/s cumulative mass fraction.