Size Reduction1: Grinding Unit Operations in Food Processing
They yield a product with little oversize and a minimum of fines. In a ball mill or pebble mill the sizereduction is carried out by impact as the balls or pebbles drop from near the top of the shell. In a large ball mill the diameter of shell may be 3 m and in length. ... the pebbles in a pebble mill are 50 to 175 mm in size. A tube mill ...