IMPROVEMENT OF ACTIVE INGREDIENTS IN GRIND STAGE ON OPERATINGCOSTS REDUCTION OF A INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL FACILITY

Resumo

The milling process requires resources that are mostly quite expensive as high energy
consumption, equipment, grinding media, spending from devices exchanges, among
others. And so a deep analysis of the circuit fragmentation operation type is necessary to
make possible to choose the type of equipment and operation more appropriate to the
purpose for which it is intended. Therefore, this work aims to assist in directing for
choosing the most appropriate type of operation in the fine grinding process employed in
the industrial sector. For the chemical industry sector, its main feature is the production of
high value compounds, making the operating cost factor even more important. The energy
consumed in comminution processes and mechanical deterioration to which the equipment
is subjected, is directly related to operating costs and investment in comminution circuits.
A better conformation of the comminution circuit is not only capital savings, as well as
energy resources, to increase profitability, reduced operating time and better use of
materials and energy resources. Through optimization methods and process control,
seeks to achieve operating and optimal process control, so mathematical models can be
built from Design of Experiments (DOE) methodology.