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MillandTrashPlateSetting
TheSugarEngineerscanofferaneffectiveandrapidmillsettingserviceforyourfactory.Inordertogetasense
ofwhatwecanofferyoucandomillsettingcalculationsonlineforyourmillnow.

Settingamillincludesthecalculationoftheopeningsbetweenthevariousmillrollsandwellastheshapeand
positionofthetrashplate.Theworkopeningsarecalculatedfirst.Theworkopeningsarethegapsbetweenthe
toprollandthefeedrollontheonehandandtheopeningbetweenthetoprollandthedischargerollonthe
other,whenthemillisinoperation.Thenextstepistocalculatethesetopenings,thatis,whatthegapsshould
bewhenthemillisempty.Thepositionsofofthemillrollsandthetrashplateareadjusteduntiltheset
openingsareachieved.

GeometryofMills

ToothProfile

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MillGeometryParameters
Toprollmeandiameter[mm] MDT
Dischargerollmeandiameter[mm] MDD
Feedrollmeandiameter[mm] MDF
ToothPitch[mm] TP
ToothFlat[mm] Tfl
ToothAngle[] Tang
ToothDepth[mm] Tdepth =(TPTfl)/(2tan(Tang/2))
RollLength[mm] lroll
Verticaldistancebetweentopandsiderollcentresatrest[mm] Vrest

MillOperatingParameters
Canethroughput[toncane/h] tch
Fibrecontentofcaneasapercentage f%c
Milllift[mm] l
Fibrethroughput[kg/min] fibrethput=tch1000/60f%c
Fibrefillinthedischargeopening[kg/m3] ffD
Fibrefillinthefeedopening[kg/m3] ffF=ffD/millratio
Speedoftoproll[rpm] n
Ratiooffeedopeningtodischargeopeningintheworkingposition millratio
Calculations
Averageperipheralvelocityoftop/feedrolls[mm/min] vTF=2n0.5(MDT+MDF)/2
Averageperipheralvelocityoftop/dischargerolls[mm/min] vTD=2n0.5(MDT+MDD/2
Escribedvolumeinthedischargeopening[m3/min] volEscrD=fibrethput/ffD
DischargeWorkOpening[mm] woD=volEscrD/(vTDlroll)/1000
Escribedvolumeinthefeedopening[m3/min] volescrF=fibrethput/ffF
FeedWorkOpening[mm] woF=volEscrF/(vTFlroll)/1000
TopFeedrollCentres(Working)[mm] TF=MDT/2+MDF/2+woF
TopDischargerollCentres(Working)[mm] TD=MDT/2+MDD/2+woD
Horizontaldistancebetweentoprollandfeedrollcentres[mm] HF=(TF2(Vrest+l)2)
Horizontaldistancebetweentoprollanddischargerollcentres
HD=(TD2(Vrest+l)2)
[mm]

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Setfeedopening(TiptoBottom)[mm] soF=(HF2+Vrest2)MDT/2+MDF/2
soD=(HD2+Vrest2)MDT/2+MDD/
Setdischargeopening(TiptoBottom)[mm]
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TrashPlateSettings
Thereareanumberofmethodsofsettingoutatrashplateforamill,thesearediscussedbyHugot,Handbook
ofCaneSugarEngineering,Jenkins,IntroductiontoCaneSugarTechnology,1966andMaxwell,Modern
MillingofSugarCane,1932.Inadditionanumberofpapersdiscussingthistopichavebeenpublishedamong
themAshe,GG,SASTA,1963andVanHengel,AandDouwesDekker,K,SASTA,1958.

EachfactorythatIhaveknowledgeofhastheirownidiosyncraticmethodoflayingoutatrashplate,butwhen
analysedallthesemethodsamounttomuchthesamething.Hugotnotesthattheidealshapeofatrashplateis
thelogarithmicspiral,andpointsoutthatthesimplestapproximationtothisisanarcwhosecenterisoffset
fromthecentrepoint(intheworkingposition)ofthetoprollalongahorizontallinetowardsthedischargeroll.
Thelogarithmicspiralcanbecalculatedinaspreadsheetandthensetoutinacaddrawing,theapproximate
arccanthenfittedtothelogarithmicspiral

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