COLD GRINDING GAS APPLICATION

During mill cooling, liquid nitrogen or carbon dioxide is sprayed directly into the grinder which lowers the temperature. By suppressing the heat generated during grinding, this cooling technique ensures stable performance of the process and increases the quality of the milled product.

A product cooler freezes materials rich in oil or fat. From the feed container, the material to be ground is passed by means of a metering screw into the paddle screw cooler. Here it is cooled by sprayed liquid nitrogen and passes together with the nitrogen into the mill. This simultaneously cools the crushing process in the mill. Special temperature control and a liquid nitrogen control valve unit regulate the amount of nitrogen required to reach a defined temperature.

Advantages:

• Good grindability of products with a high proportion of oils, fats and moisture
• The material remains free-flowing; the machine does not clog up
• No thermal damage through overheating of temperature-sensitive substances
• The essential oil content remains almost unchanged and intact

MESSER COMPLETE SOLUTIONS FOR COLD GRINDING AND MICRONIZING

Cold grinding trials in our test facility

The Messer Group operates a highly specialised test facility, which offers the opportunity to profit from process developments, estimate production costs or produce sample batches. Qualified sample grinding is carried out using liquid nitrogen. All grinding parameters, such as throughput, electricity and nitrogen requirements, as well as the particle size distribution are measured, evaluated and made available to the customer. The results obtained can be transferred to large-scale production.

In addition to purely producing grinding samples, this also allows an estimation of production costs under production conditions and a comparison to other grinding processes. 

Cold grinding optimization on site

Customers’ existing mills can also be optimised. Granulate coolers, nitrogen control valves and temperature control can be provided for carrying out tests on these plants on site.