Laboratory Ball Mill

Summit Matsu industrial chiller helps move pharmaceutical company iCeutica forward

ICeutica have recently begun using their Summit Matsu chiller to ensure optimal operating temperatures for their pilot sized ball mill. Summit Matsu Chillers has provided this state of the art chiller to cool the jacket of a pilot scale ball mill at the company's Perth laboratory.

With operations in Philadelphia, USA and Perth, iCeutica is a specialist drug company with the objective to rapidly develop reformulations of commercially successful pharmaceutical grade compounds, by utilising its unique annoreformulation technology.

iCeutica's SoluMatrix platform is the key to solving intractable solubility and bioavailability problems and provides options to rapidly increase the rate of absorption of drugs, reduce the dose required for a desired effect, and remove the variability associated with food for many pharmaceuticals products.

iCeutica is using the chiller to ensure an optimal operating temperature for this ball mill, which is used to crush and refine compounds. The company decided to approach Summit Matsu Chillers for their cooling solution instead of a traditional lab equipment supplier. And this has worked in iCeutica’s favour where they were able to obtain this chiller at a very competitive price point.

A ball mill is a cylindrical device used for grinding or mixing materials; the ball mill rotates around a horizontal axis, and is partially filled with the material to be ground plus a grinding medium which can be comprised of ceramic balls, flint pebbles or stainless steel balls.

The internal cascading effect reduces the material to a fine powder and the high friction levels within the ball mill create a significant amount of heat as a by product, hence the requirement for a chiller. With temperatures in iCeuticaʼs ball mill reaching as high as 80°C within ten minutes of operation, it was vital to employ a reliable, high quality chiller to moderate the temperatures inside the ball mill, thereby protecting both the machine and the materials from overheating.

Choosing Sydney based chiller manufacturing company Summit Matsu Chillers instead of a traditional lab equipment supply company allowed iCeutica more freedom in their specification and design suited specifically for their needs.

Adrian Russel, Research Operations Manager at iCeutica, commented that choosing a Summit Matsu Chillers chiller has a variety of benefits when compared to dedicated lab chiller suppliers.

“They look swanky and glossy, but the specialty lab chillers cost more than $10,000 more than the Summit Matsu chiller which does exactly the same job,” says Russel.

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This ball mill comprises of feeding part, discharging part, gyre part, transmission part, (decelerator, small transmission gear, generator, electrical control ) and so forth. The hollow axis adopts the cast steel and the lining can replace , the rotating big gear processes in the way of casting rolling gear. The barrel body is wearable well and bears wearable scaleboard. This machine run steadily and works reliably.

It is horizontal type and tubular running device, has two warehouses. This machine is grid type and its particular outside runs along gear. The information enters spirally and evenly the first warehouse of the milling machine over the input material hollow axis by input material device. On this warehouse , there exists a ladder scaleboard or ripple scaleboard, and various specification steel balls they covered the scaleboard, when the barrel body rotates after which produces centrifugal force ,at the moment , the steel ball is carried tosome height and falls to make the fabric grinding and striking. After grinded coarsely in the first warehouse, the information then enters to the second warehousefor regrinding with all the steel ball and scaleboard. In the end, the powder is discharged by output material board andthe end items are completed.

Ball mills would be the most effective laboratory mills for batch-wise, rapid comminution of medium-hard to very hard samples right down to the finest particle sizes. The grinding can take place dry or wet. Grinding teams of numerous materials can be obtained. The mills can also be used for mixing and homogenisation.

Like a ball mill manufacturer,The Laboratory ball mill manufactured by FOX Machinery are of reliable structure, stable running, best quality and energy-saving. The ball mill application is fairly wide like the cement, silicate products, new building material, refractory material, chemical fertilizer,chemical industry, black and non-ferrous metal beneficiation and glass-ceramic production industries. The ball mill goods are used to wet grinding or dry grinding of numerous ores as well as other grind able materials.

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