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Data from full scale marked ball tests are used to demonstrate the effects of abrasion, corrosion, and impact on overall wear rate. The predominate wear mechanism need be identified before the optimum alloy can be chosen for the grinding media. Use of high chromium grinding media often results in increased mill efficiency due to shape retention. Thus, a benefit from energy savings can result as well as a reduction in wear rate. Converting from steel to cast high chromium grinding media requires close association and cooperation between producer and consumer in order to properly conduct these studies.
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SME preprint 89–171, SME Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, February, 1989. M&MP paper 89–633. Discussion of this paper must be submitted, in duplicate, prior to Jan. 31, 1990.
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Sailors, R.H. Cast high chromium media in wet grinding. Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration 6, 172–178 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03403459
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03403459