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Mathematical Model to Improve Energy Efficiency in Hammer Mills and Its Use in the Feed Industry: Analysis and Validation in a Case Study in Cuba

Yoisdel Castillo Alvarez,
Reinier Jiménez Borges,
José Pedro Monteagudo Yanes,
Berlan Rodríguez Pérez,
Carlos Diego Patiño Vidal and
Roberto Pfuyo Muñoz

Processes2025, 13(5), 1523;https://doi.org/10.3390/pr13051523

15 May 2025

The feed industry is characterized by high energy consumption during the grinding stage, where hammer mills can account for up to 50% of total electricity usage; furthermore, efficiency analyses are based only on the classical equations reported in t...

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Research on the Grinding Energy Density in a Jet Mill

Dariusz Urbaniak,
Henryk Otwinowski,
Tomasz Wyleciał,
Vladimir Pavlovich Zhukov,
Aleksei Yevgenyevich Barochkin and
Jarosław Boryca

Materials2021, 14(8), 2008;https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14082008

16 April 2021

Raw materials are used in many industrial technologies. The raw material frequently has to be prepared as an intermediate with an appropriate particle size distribution, which requires the use of grinding. In grinding processes, energy consumption is...

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DFT Study on the Interaction Between Flotation Agents and Lepidolite-1M Surfaces

Xujun Zhang,
Guichun He and
Changzhen Du

Minerals2024, 14(11), 1168;https://doi.org/10.3390/min14111168

18 November 2024

The surface chemical properties of Lepidolite-1M crystals are closely related to their flotation properties. This paper uses density functional theory (DFT) to analyze the band structure, population, and state density of ideal Lepidolite-1M crystals....

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Experimental Investigation of a New Modular Crusher Machine Developed for Olive Oil Extraction Plants

Antonia Tamborrino,
Claudio Perone,
Gianluca Veneziani,
Antonio Berardi,
Roberto Romaniello,
Maurizio Servili and
Alessandro Leone

Foods2022, 11(19), 3035;https://doi.org/10.3390/foods11193035

30 September 2022

The crushing system is crucial in the virgin olive oil (VOO) mechanical extraction process. The use of different crusher machines can highly influence the quality of the final product, mainly due to the phenolic and volatile content responsible for V...

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