Study on material distribution and equal-thickness formation mechanism of variable trajectory combined equal-thickness screen

ABSTRACT

Equal-thickness screens are widely used in coal processing due to their advantages in overcoming the problems of material accumulation, low utilization of the screen surface, and poor screening accuracy. In this paper, the variable amplitude equal-thickness method was introduced into the combined screen, a novel variable trajectory combined equal-thickness screen was proposed and the combined excitation coefficient was introduced. The motion of the variable trajectory combined equal-thickness screen under different combined excitation coefficients was investigated using vibration test analysis system and the particle motion characteristics and the spatial distributions of materials in the screening process were analyzed using a high-speed camera system. The distribution law of the material was studied by screening experiment. The results show that when the combined excitation coefficient D is increased, the first section screen amplitude increases, the material transport speed of the first section increases, the material accumulation situation of the first section is resolved. When the unbalanced excitation coefficient k is increased, the material layer at the feeding end of each screen becomes thinner, the material transport speed of the first section screen is accelerated, the screen body does variable amplitude elliptical motion, the material is equal-thickness. When D = 1.2, k = 1.2, an optimum screening efficiency of 96.12% was obtained, with a total misplaced material content of only 1.82%.

KEYWORDS:

• Coal screening
• material distribution
• combined screen
• equal-thickness screen
• equal-thickness formation mechanism

Acknowledgements

The research work is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51904301, U1903132, 51704287, 52125403, 52075535), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20220160), the Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation (ZR2022QE083), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2020M671652), the Science and technology Project of Xuzhou City (KC21291, KC21091), Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST (2021QNRC001).

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Funding

The work was supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2020M671652]; National Natural Science Foundation of China [51904301, U1903132, 51704287, 52125403, 52075535]; Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20220160]; Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province [ZR2022QE083]; Science and technology Project of Xuzhou City [KC21291, KC21091] Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST [2021QNRC001].