HIGmill™ Vertical Stirred Milling

Rotor Type Stirred Mill - GrindForce™

Maintenance Aspects
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Typical Mill Layout

Motor, Coupling and Gearbox

Classifier, material outflow

Mill platform

Mill with grinding rotors

Structure and stair tower

Material feed

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Overview HIGmill™ Wear Parts

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Vaned Grinding Rotor Shaft Bottom Cap

Bolt Protection

Non-Vaned Grinding Bottom Cover Wear

Disc Plate

Rotor Spacer
Shaft Guide Cone
Protection

Shaft Bottom Cap Shell Liner

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Media Removal: Step 1 – Drain Media into Storage Bags

Using a forklift place a empty

media bag below the Mill drain
valve.

Drain all the Grinding Media

into storage bags and safely
transport them to the loading
area.

Note:
The grinding beads
are round and
slippery on the
floor. Great care
needs to be taken
to prevent spillage
which would create
a slip and fall
hazard.

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Media Removal: Step 2 – Remove Mill Feed Slurry Line

Carefully remove the mill feed Line from the block off valve. Always leave one bolt in
both flanges to ensure the pipe that is being removed is well supported before removal.

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Media Removal: Step 3 – Remove Mill Chamber Base Plate

Support the base plate using the

forklift forks.

Remove the fasteners holding the

Chamber Base Plate into positon.

Using the forklift transport the

Chamber Base Plate safely to the
laydown area.

Note: Always ensure that all

instrumentation is
removed/disconnected
from the feed block
valve.

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Splitting Grinding Chamber
• Mill bottom cover lowered to floor

• Mill shell bolts removed using scissor lift

Connection of hydraulic
cylinder to mill shell

Hydraulic cylinders
push mill apart

Bottom cover plate

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No Overhead Crane required for Shell Liner Change Out
• Utilise existing electrical hoists for shaft
removal to remove shell liner segments

• Utilise fact HIGmill is already an elevated

design compared to alternatives

• Lower components, rather than lift

components

Two Mill Maintenance Chain Blocks

Integrated in Mill Support Structure/Mill Frame to
lift/lower the mill shaft

Shaft Lifting Device

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HIGmill™ Bottom Layout

Mill Inspection Opening

(Boroscope inspection)

Mill Non Return Valve

Mill Drain Valve

Shaft Bottom
Cap

Mill Feed Valve Shaft Guide

Mill Flushing Water
Cone
Connection

Mill Inspection Opening

(Boroscope inspection) Mill Non
Return valve Mill Drain Valve

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HIGmill™ Shell Liner Assembly

Mild steel carrier

PU wear protection
glued to carrier &
clamped by stator rings
Complete 180°
liner segment
bolted to mill shell

Flexibility
• Modular design where PU wear protection
and/or hard-casted stator rings can be replaced

• Castellated PU (lower levels): «built-in» wear protection

through captured grinding media à reduced wear Hard cast stator rings,
bolted to liner segment
• Other shell lining options can be implemented later

• Hard cast stator rings: same material throughout.

Stator rings can operate till completely worn

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Mill Shaft Replacement – Shaft Maintenance Trailer
→ Small HIGmills™ Option 1 Overhead/Mobile crane

• Integrated mill maintenance electric hoists to lower/lift shaft.

• Overhead/mobile crane to pick up shaft bottom.

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Mill Shaft Replacement – Shaft Maintenance Trailer
→ Small HIGmills™ Option 2 Forklift

• Integrated mill maintenance electric hoists to lower/lift shaft.

• Forklift with slings to pick up shaft bottom.

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Mill Shaft Replacement – Shaft Maintenance Trailer
→ Large HIGmills™

Shaft Maintenance Trailer:

• Low speed trailer with pivoting device on rails

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Mill Shaft Replacement – Shaft Maintenance Trailer

Shaft Maintenance Trailer:

• HIG3500/23000 Mill Shaft

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HIGmills™ with Integrated Support Structure – Hinged Mill Shell Halves

Up to 1.8 MW, HIG1800/9000F:

ü Integrated mill steel support

structure included

ü Hinges to open mill shell halves

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HIGmills™ up to 1.8 MW - Pre-Assembled for Shipping
• HIGmills modular design & shipped in standard sized shipping containers
• Modular, preassembled design reduces site labour costs with quick erection times

Quick
installation

Pre-assembled in workshop

Shipped pre-assembled
in standard container
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Large HIGmills™ 2.3 to 8 MW – Hydraulically Moved Mill Shell Halves

Mill Frame:
ü Walkways on discharge level

ü Gearbox platform with stairs

Largest Stirred
Mills in World
HIG2300/15000 and larger:
Up to 5 MW
• Installed either on concrete or steel (optional) structure Operational

• Mill shell halves moved by intergrated hydraulics Up to 8 MW

Designed
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HIGmill™ Installations

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HIGmill™ Installations

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