Monday 16 August 2010

Is the Bond Work Index still relevant?

Over 4 years ago, someone asked the question on the MEI Online Forum: are mills still designed using the long-winded Bond Test? With modern computers and models, is this test, and indeed the Bond Work Index, now obsolete?

There were a number of replies to this question, but, four years on, I wonder what the current view is on this?

2 comments:

  1. Until ball mills are no longer required, the Bond work index test will remain as the "premier" milling test. Interpretation of the results from the test itself is a different matter.
    M. Daniel,

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  2. Absolutely, it is still in use. Thanks for the references listed four years ago. We will use them to run the test in our research group

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