5 Important Applications of Hammer mill
Hammer mill or hammer mill crusher is a widely used industrial equipment which is mainly applied to grind and crush bulk materials into powder. Its rotating speed is relatively high, from 0 to 6000 rpm, so the final product is very small just like powder. It is different from conical mill, which crushes bulk materials into small granules or particles. It has a wide applications across multiple industries such as pharmaceutical, food, chemical, agricultural and cosmetics.
Pharmaceutical
Hammer mills are essential in the pharmaceutical industry and often used to grind bulk materials into powders and reduce the size of APIs (active pharmaceutical ingredients) and adjuvants. These processed final products are used mainly in the fields like medicine. Through hammer mill, powders of intermediate grade can be made and obtained. Because the medicinal particles(used to fill in the capsules) has the quantity requirements, hammer mill is utilized to reduce the size of drug particles. So the medicinal particles can be filled precisely.
The hammer mills plays an important role in the uniform distribution of APIs in the tablets or capsules and the micronization of medicines to ensure the accurate dosage and enhances bio-availability.
Chemical Application
In the chemical industry, the demand for the size and uniformity of materials is high, so hammer mills are used to grind and pulverize the raw materials and intermediates into the required size like powders or granules. It is significant in the optimization of chemical formulation and reaction, because the suitable and uniform particle size has better solubility and reactivity, the smaller size of particles can dissolve and react faster due to the increase of surface area, which can enhance the quality of chemicals.
Hammer mill can also be used to produce the intermediate powders needed in the chemical industry. For example, grinding various types of dry raw materials into powders to satisfy the production needs of different chemical products, such as the powders of chemical reagents, pigments, etc., offering suitable raw material particle size for the following production processes.
Food Application
Hammer mills plays an important role in the food processing industry to pulverize and grind a variety of food products such as grains, sugar and spices. Hammer mills can produce precise particle size, which is significant in the production of food products like cornmeal, flour, spices and other grains, because these products has higher requirements for the texture and flavour, and hammer mill can produce precise, consistent and uniform particles.
it is noted that some special designed hammer mills can grind spices in low temperature environments, which can avoid the loss of aromatic components in the high temperature such as the volatile oils in the spices to save the original flavor and fragrance of spices.
Agricultural Application
In the agricultural industry, hammer mills are mainly used to grind and crush various feedstock like grains, silage and hay to produce animal feeds. This hammer mill machine has a significant function in producing uniform and consistent material size. Because if the material sizes are uniform and consistent, animals or livestocks can absorb the nutrition in the feeds better, which ensures that they have a balanced diet.
The screen mesh can be changed to obtain different sizes of particles. It can mix and crush multiple raw materials at the same time such as corn, soybean meal, wheat bran, etc., to ensure the uniform distribution of nutrition to offer stable quality of feedstock. The unique hammer design and screen mesh structure can effectively ensure the mixing and crushing effects.
Cosmetic
The application of hammer mill in the cosmetics is also universal. It is mainly used to crush raw materials and control the particle size. Various dry raw materials such as talcum powder, mica, calcium carbonate, can be pulverized by hammer mills. The high-speed rotating hammers can break and crush fibers in the raw materials. After complete crush, the activity of raw materials can be enhanced greatly, which is specially important for some skin care products containing natural plant extracts, because the complete crushed plant particles can release its effective ingredients better to help skin absorb nutrition better.
It can satisfy different processing demands. The requirement for the crushing degree and particle size of raw materials in the cosmetic production is varied according to the final products. For example, when producing lipsticks, need to crush fat and wax raw materials into finer particles, so as to obtain smooth lipstick texture. While producing powder compact, need to crush powder materials into more finer powder condition, to enhance the adhesion and covering powder of powder compacts.
Except industries mentioned above, there are many other fields where the applications of hammer mills are also wide, such as mining, construction, etc. Hammer mill can be used in combination with dust-free feeding station, cyclone screening machine, and weighing packaging machine, to form a powder filling line. Senieer hammer mill receives much satisfaction from clients who mainly come from Europe, Egypt, and Arabia.
