SBIR/STTR Research Award
PITT MILL OPTIMIZATION
Award amount
$50,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1989Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Energy
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Exportech Company, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
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Research abstract
IN THIS PROJECT, A SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS WILL BE CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE THE EFFECTS OF MODIFYING FLOW DISTRIBUTION IN THE PITT MILL TO FURTHER IMPROVE GRINDING EFFICIENCY. THIS WORK WILL BE CARRIED OUT TO OPTIMIZE PRE-MIXING WITHIN THE PITT MILL BY MODIFYING THE MODE OF MIXING NOW USED; IMPROVE FLOW THROUGH THE GRINDING BED BY MODIFYING THE PRODUCT CIRCULATION NOW USED; AND TEST THE EFFECTS OF CONSTRAINED CIRCULATION THROUGH THE BED USING EXTERNAL MEANS.
Technology keywords
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