Optimization of Veritical roller Mill (VRM): If Temperature behind mill is too

low or too high

For describing the parameter temperature behind the mill there are three possible conditions:

Temperature behind mill is in range

If the Temperature behind the mill is within the defined range, there are no problems and

thus there is no need of changing any parameter of the running grinding process.

Temperature behind mill is too low

If the temperature behind the mill is too low, there are little possibilities to increase it.

First of all it needs to be checked, if the hot gas amount is enough for reaching the defined

temperature.

If there is sufficient hot gas, increasing the volume flow of the hot gas will also increase the

temperature behind the mill.

Is the amount of hot gas insufficient, reducing the amount of water injected into the mill can cause

an increasing temperature?

If none of the parameters described above lead to an increase of the temperature behind the

mill, the last possibility to increase the temperature is by reducing the feeding of the mill.

Especially during winter times, when the material, fed into the mill is wet, a reduction of the

feed will increase the temperature behind the mill.

Temperature behind mill is too high

If the temperature after the mill is too high, reducing the amount of hot gas is one option to

reduce the temperature.

Yet, the grinding process in the vertical mill reacts very sensitive on changing the amount hot gas.

Thus the margin of changing the hot gas amount is very narrow

Is the temperature after reducing the hot gas amount still too high or there is no possibility to

reduce the hot gas, increasing the circulating gas is another step in reducing the temperature

behind the mill.

The amount of circulating gas can usually be adjusted by the opening or closing of a flap.

Is the temperature after the mill too high, the flap is opened more and so the hot gas, coming from

the kiln, is mixed with colder gas coming out of the mill?

The amount of hot gas entering the mill is not only mixed with the colder circulating gas, but is

reduced and thus leading to a decreasing temperature (see Figure1).

Figure 1: schematic drawing of the gas flow outside of a vertical mill

So the total volume entering the mill is the same and no further changes of the grinding process
are done, except lowering the mill temperature.

If the temperature after the mill is still too high, the last possibility to reduce it is by inserting more
water into the mill.

But the material bed, which is an important parameter of the grinding process, reacts very
sensitive on changes of the water amount.