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The Perfect Mixing model is based on a population balance of particles entering the mill, breaking into smaller sizes, and discharging as product. For a mill operating in steady-state, the diagram in Figure 1 below represents the balance for a given size fraction:

The steady-state population balance is formulated mathematically as:

where:

  • is the index of the size interval, , is the number of size intervals
  • is the mass flow rate of solids of size interval in the mill feed
  • is the mass flow rate of solids of size interval in the mill product
  • is the mass of solids on size interval in the mill load
  • is the breakage rate of solids on size interval in the mill load
  • is the Appearance function, the distribution of particle mass arising from the breakage of a parent particle in size interval into progeny of size interval

As the mill is perfectly mixed, the product is related to the mill contents and discharge rate as:

where is the rate of discharge of solids in size interval from the mill.

Substitution and rearrangement of the above equations leads to:

The mill product can therefore be computed provided a feed rate, Appearance function and breakage rate per discharge rate, , is available. Alternatively, the function can be determined from the feed rate, product rate and Appearance function.