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How to Dealing with Slag crushing plant

Another material you might work with is slag. Slag is produced during the process of smelting or refining ore. There are different types of slag which call for different types of crushers.

With blast furnace slag, it’s not as abrasive or as hard as steel furnace slag. Blast furnace slag has just come out of a based oxygen furnace and all that’s been added to it are iron ore pellets, which helps make molten iron. The slag that comes off of that is not as hard and dense as steel slag.

Steel slag is what happens when molten iron is introduced to other elements needed for steel, such as nickel, chromium, and manganese. The steel slag is much harder, making it harder to crush because of its higher compressive strength. If you’re crushing steel slag, you want to use a compression style crusher, and when you’re crushing blast furnace slag, you can get away with impact style crushers from time to time.

In a slag plant, you’re after the metal. You want to be able to recycle it and sell it back to the mill. Many of these machines will use a tremendous number of magnets to remove the metal and separate it out so that the slag product itself can be used in the construction industry for cement, or even asphalt on roads.

There are many types of protection devices on these machines to help protect it from damage. For instance, a jaw crusher has a toggle plate on it, which is a safety fuse. If you were to get an uncrushable into that chamber, the toggle plate will bend or break before you do major damage to the bearings or shafts. cone crushers are equipped with tramp relief systems on them that allow for uncrushables to pass through without damaging the machine.

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